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Ecology

Pro-ecological activity

Barlinek Group for years has been seriously engaged in the protection of the natural environment. Expenditure on pro-ecological investment since 2000 has already reached a value of 30 mln PLN. The Company has equally set itself the long-term objective, will indicate standards in the area of the ecology and its understanding. Barlinek cooperates with many other entities in order to propagate care for the environment, understanding of environmental issues and broadening good practice in this important area.

The majority of the activity and investment within the establishment is concentrated on respect for raw material and for energy used for production. The prestigious certificate of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) awarded to the Company is the evidence, that the products produced by Barlinek SA derived exclusively from raw material obtained from rationally and sustainably managed forest resources. In Barlinek establishments each stage of production as regard for ecological factors, e.g. transport of sawdust by pneumatic suction, which limits its access to the environment; the a use for transport is cleaned in filter stations, with an effectiveness amounting to 99.5%. Due to the use of biomass the creation of heat energy Barlinek avoids the excessive emission of CO2.

Barlinek SA since 2000 has implemented the programme „Principle 1 for 1”. This consists of planting one tree of each pack of Barlinek floorboards purchased, marked with the logo of the programme. The „Clients’ Wood” created in this way, combined amounts to an area of approximately 500 ha, numbering 4 million trees, creating about 50 thousand litres of oxygen daily and absorbing 75 thousand tonnes of CO2 annually. Within the educational activity conducted there are also projects such as competitions on ecological subjects for children and also relevant for Polish tradition, such as care for the legendary oak tree „Bartek”.

The care for the environment of Barlinek Group is evident in the current financing of the programme conducted by the Research Station of the Polish Hunting Association in Czempin and the Barlinek Forestry office, for the restoration of the population of the „woodland” Common Kestrel. Thanks to the activity undertaken it has been possible to return practically thirty of these unusually rare and beautiful birds to the forests.