Timber is the only renewable building material and all Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Australia Group's timber is harvested from sustainably managed plantations.

Trees absorb greenhouse gases during growth while releasing oxygen into the atmosphere and storing carbon as wood fibre - in fact trees clean the air. Australia's plantations are critical in reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and are set to treble in area by the year 2020.

Timber products require low energy inputs to produce, transport and use in your house.

Steel production for an average 4 bedroom house releases about 7 times more CO2 compared with pine framing.

Source: Environmental Properties of Timber (1996), Ferguson, La Fontaine, Vinden, Bren, Hateley and Hermesec.

We believe timber to be the only environmentally responsible choice when it comes to building materials.