Sustainability
C O M M I T E M E N T
At Larforma we share a passion for wood and profound respect for the environment.
We fondly believe in a better world, of progressive, inclusive people, in search of balance and connection with nature. It is within nature where we find inspiration. In a hectic, demanding and busy world, we are determined to help in this challenge of getting more out of life, with and for the local communities. To learn, share and implement the fierce passion and profound respect for the environment.
T H E C O M M I T M E N T
We make every effort to progressively develop our products in genuine respect to nature and its entire environment whether on land, sea or sky, sustainably and design to last. As every day we see climate changes occurring at worrying rates, we have the obligation to fight to preserve and restore nature. By devoting time to design, production, and distribution channels, in a collaborative partnership with our clients and suppliers, listening attentively to them and responding to the need through the creative process.
We have the obligation to help preserve and restore nature.
Proactively working to have a clean, conscientious activity, establishing sustainability practices within the scope of our action. At our facilities, we separate and process waste and seek to recycle out what we cannot perform internally.
All collected materials typically undergo a sorting operation, that is, separation by substance category. Waste is processed, baled and, after being packaged, is sent to the recycling industry, through our fleet or specific transportation, depending on the considerable amount of material and respective characteristics.
Managed & Prospecting Forests
Our wood comes from properly managed forests, with prospecting for new plantations and sustainable growths after each harvest, therefore enabling the ecological conservation of biodiversity and the necessary protection of endangered species and safety for the worker. Always requesting certificates of origin from our official supplier, issued under the operational control of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Sea of the Government of Portugal.
Pinus Plant Passport
“Issued by our suppliers, the mandatory Plant Passport comes in each buy of raw wood. With it, we have the guarantee our forest are properly managed with new plantations and sustainable growths.”
Our genuine concern that raw materials for our products come from forests responsibly managed, wood management meets a demanding set of essential requirements and principles appropriate to the environment and society, as determined by international standards. Our sustainability policy is based on a set of established guidelines in which we use to carry out our decision, starting on sustainable development as well the search for economic prosperity, social and environmental responsibility. In order to achieve it, we undoubtedly continue to collect information and invest our time to progressively reduce the environmental impact from our factory through dialogue with associations and the constant search for innovative products and valuable services.
Pinus Pinaster
About 38% of mainland Portugal is forested: the predominant species being maritime pine - Pinus pinaster
As well our beloved material, which could theoretically be considered wasteful in the processing of our products, all machines used in the production process possess mechanisms for collecting sawdust, wood chips, and bark so that they can be made available later for recycling purposes and creation of new raw materials like plywood, MDF's and agglomerates.
With this organizing principle, we minimize the waste of nature's wealth to be underutilized with the adequate guarantee that we provide a commitment to our world.
We sincerely believe it is necessary to value everything that could theoretically be considered wasteful in the processing of our products, so all machines used in the production process have mechanisms for collecting sawdust, wood chips, and bark so that they can be made available later for recycling purposes and creation of other materials like Pallets, MDF's and agglomerates.
Other wood leftovers, like Pinewood and Beechwood, are gathered and properly stored in a suitable container. To be collected by a specific recycling company in which will bear them into a processing machine to carry out the production of Plywood Boards and MDF’s.