Um das mit den Pestiziden (Siehe Bericht agelix) zu klären haben wir beim Lieferant nachgefragt und folgende Antwort bekommen welche gerne mit euch Teilen:
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Das sind unsinnige Stories.
In der Anlage finden Sie ein Basisdokument, leider in Englisch (Ist beigefügt). Wir hoffen, dass wir den Text bald übersetzen können. Vieleicht kann der Kunde diesen Text trotzdem lesen.
Kunstharz:
Abhängig von den Produkten werden unterschiedliche Leime eingesetzt. Zum Teil auch Kunstharzleime von Europäischen Hersteller (genau so wie allen Fussbodenproduzente in Europa). Alle Leime sind gemäss Europäische Standards und alle E1 (Formaldehyd).
Zum Teil werden auch PVAC-Leime (E-0) und EPI-Leime (E-o) eingesetzt. Leimanteil in den meisten Produkten schätzen wir auf ca.5%.
Pestiziden: Auch in China (siehe Anlage) gibt es viele Regeln bezüglich Pestiziden und Holzschutsmitteln. Die Aussagen über den Pestizidenanteil ist Fantasie!!!
BAMBOO IN GENERAL
Bamboo is not a wood, but a grass species.
There are about 1250 bamboo species existing of which 300 develop a woody pole. About 100 species are commercialized.
The bigger (woody) Bamboo species are belonging to the fastest plants / trees on earth.
A bamboo will grow in 2 - 4 months to it's full length (Phyllostrachys Punescens 12 - 20 m1)and needs 4 years to become a full wood structure.
Every year new poles will grow from the mother plant.
Generally 25% of the poles in a bamboo forest or plantation can be harvested per year to maintain the size of the plantation and to keep the number of poles per hectare.
From a environmental point of view, woody bamboo species are important in relation to:
- biomass production and CO2 fixation
- solution against land erosion
- soil water balance
- wood production
For general information and scientific studies about bamboo, please contact INBAR, International Network of Bamboo and Rattan,
International Network for Bamboo and Rattan)
SPECIAL ISSUES
Locations of original source forest:
Bamboo resources in China are estimated on 6000000 ha and can be found in several provinces.
The bamboo for xxx bamboo products comes from:
- Zhejiang Province: Lishui county and Anji county
- Jiangxi Province: Fuzhou county and Yintan county
- Fujian Province: Nanping county, Sanming county and Longyan county
Harvesting practises and control
The resources used for industrial bamboo products (like bamboo veneer and bamboo flooring) are long time existing forest, which are used by farmers.
Farmers can yearly harvest a part of the poles and sell these poles to processing industries (strip producers for bamboo mat products / bamboo flooring / bamboo veneer and panels / chopstick / etc)
Harvesting of bamboo forest is controlled under the authority of The Forestry Bureau of China and local forestry administration. Corresponding laws:
- Forest Law of The People?s Republic of China
- Implementation of the Forest Law
- Wild Plant Protection Ordinance of The People?s Republich of China
Following control procedures are applicable:
1. A comprehensive survey of forest resources is organized every 5 years by The Forestry Bureau of China to establish the files of all the forest resources.
2.According the survey results and the principle "harvesting quantity must be less than growing quantity and strictly control the forest harvesting quantity .", the forestry administrations of provinces make a plan of how much could be cutted and hand in to Statement Deparement for confirmation.
3.According to the confirmed harvesting plan and the loacl forest resources , the Country Department will distribute the allowed harvesting quantity to all the counties ,towns and state-owned tree farm .
4.All the harvesting units apply for harvesting ; the forestry workstations of that area then arrange to do checking on the harvesting units.
5.According to the result of the investigation, the harvesting units will get the "Forestry Logging Permits" and be informed the allowed harvesting quantity ,harvesting area and harvesting wethods. Then afer the getting the confirmation from the forestry administrations , the harvesting units can arrange the harvesting.
6.If less than 500 pcs of bamboo are needed to be cutted, the forestry workstation people will do the supervision for acceptance within 3 days after the cutting. If more than 500 pcs of bamboo are needed , the forestry workstation people will do 2 times of supervision during and after the cutting.
Industry self control
Environmental aspects of harvesting and production are becoming more and more important for the industries itself. The main bamboo flooring and veneer manufacturers are member of the Chinese Bamboo Flooring Association, which is a part of the Chinese Flooring Association. The Chinese Flooring Association stay in direct contact with the Ministery of Forestry in China. The industrial companies fully respect the above described harvesting procedures and exchange information on environmental production issues for further improvements.
Bamboo - FSC
In the past several years it was not possible or almost impossible to bring bamboo in the FSC-system. Originally this was caused by the fact that bamboo botanically was considered as grass and not as wood. Shortly there are indications that this approach will change. But even when FSC-certifying is possible in future, there will be a lot of practical issues to solve. In a bamboo forest bamboo poles in different diameters are available for harvesting. So for each industrial product only specific poles can be suitable. The consequence of this is that the industry is purchasing processed bamboo strips from different sources and therefore has to deal with different counties and county authorities. This will make FSC certifying very complex.
Also wood only can be FSC certified, when the wood can be considered as a ?natural? forest and can maintain it?s biodiversity and ecological functions and values. Bamboo comes from forst plantations and must be considered as agricultural crop.
Initiatives from INBAR are made to set up a specific certication system for bamboo. These are initiatives are still in an early stage.
Harvesting an production audits:
Since harvesting control is formulated and controlled by the Forestry Bureau of China and no specific 3rd party certification system is available, xxx can organize audit visits to production and harvesting sites on customer?s request.
Bamboo processing and xx products:
Moso products will be manufactured in several factories in the Zhejiang province of China. These factories work in a joint venture arrangement with xxx BV. As a consequence of this xxx is involved in detrmining the production procedures and determining the processing line. All the bamboo material will come from fixed suppliers. All adhesives and finishes come from European manufacturers and are according European standard (adhesives: Henkel Germany and Dynea Norway / lacquer: BONA Sweden / Oil ? WOCA Denmark)
xxx inspection and control:
To secure and guarantee environmentally sound practises and maintaining working procedures xxx has it?s own daily control activities executed by xxx representative company in Shaoxing (100% daughter company of xxx BV). Currently 3 people are working in the office to maintain the communication with the production units in China and xxx in the Netherland and 9 people are working in the factories for inspection and product development.