Sustainability – our natural promise

We only use timber sourced from sustainably and responsibly governed and managed forests. The company’s timber procurement and processing processes comply with the requirements of the EU Timber Regulation.

We value long-term relationships with partners throughout the supply chain, so we develop business links with companies that operate according to internationally recognised sustainability principles. An important criterion for choosing suppliers is their reputation and their social responsibility, which includes paying taxes, safety at work, responsible use of resources, professional treatment and fair trade. Our general criteria are described in the Group’s Procurement Policy.

Protecting the environment is an integral part of our corporate strategy and we believe that less is more. Whether in terms of GHG emissions and waste, or resource and energy consumption, we are continuously improving the efficiency of our production processes to reduce our impact on the environment.

Latvijas Finieris’ factories are located close to the extraction sites of wood resources, thus ensuring short transport distances. When planning deliveries of finished products to the customers, we carefully assess the environmental aspects of available logistics solutions – where possible, we choose the shortest delivery routes and the most fuel-efficient transport. We are gradually shifting our fleet to environmentally friendly solutions, increasingly using hybrids and electric cars in urban traffic and electric forklifts in production.

There is and can be no residue in the birch plywood production process – every piece of wood is a valuable by-product that we responsibly recycle, both in our Group companies and in our partners’ factories. This is why, in both plywood production and wood by-product recycling, we focus on long-life products that help move away from fossil resources and maximise CO² sequestration.

Having weighed up the ecological, economic and social benefits, Latvijas Finieris made a strategic decision more than 15 years ago to use wood products as much as possible in the construction of new industrial buildings. In the large-scale glued laminated timber construction solutions, two development phases of RSEZ SIA Verems, a plywood production workshop at Kohila Vineer in Estonia, and an impregnation workshop at the Chemical Products Plant in Bolderāja, have been implemented. Wood products have been used extensively in a number of smaller-scale construction and renovation projects, such as the Furniers warehouse building, which was opened in the summer of 2022. The Latvijas Finieris camping area Abragciems is also a good example of the versatility of wood use and serves as a unique laboratory for the real environment of birch plywood products.