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* Sawn Timber – Decking – Flooring *
* Cladding – Mouldings - Components*
Dedicated to the sourcing, shipping and marketing of
hardwood and allied forest products.
Location of the Tradelink Group Offices. United Kingdom Tradelink Wood Products Ltd (Head Office) Tradelink House, 25 Beethoven Street, London W10 4LG, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 20-7460 7788 Fax: +44 (0) 20-7460 7799 email: [email protected] Brazil Tradelink Madeiras Ltda Avenida Principal, s/n, Quadra 9, Sector G Lote 1, Distrito Industrial, Ananindeua, Pará, CEP. 67035-017, Brazil Tel: +55 (0) 91-4005 7500 Fax: +55 (0) 91-4005 7524
email: [email protected]
Canada Tradelink Wood Products Corp 4180 Morris Drive, #2, Burlington, Ontario, L7L 5L6, Canada Tel: + 1 (905) 333 5111 Fax: +1 (905) 333 5171 email: [email protected]
China Shanghai Tradelink Wood Imp & Exp Co. Ltd. (Agent)
Room 305, No. 1800-6 YunChuan Road, Shanghai, 20190, China Tel: + 86 (0) 21-5680-2156 Fax: + 86 (0) 21 5649-2841 email: [email protected] Qingdao Warehouse – Jiao Xi Industrial Zone, Jiao Zhou, Qingdao 26630, China.
France Tradelink France 18, Rue Victor Schoelcher, 44100 Nantes, France Tel: +33(0)240 269101 Fax: +33(0)240 651276 email: [email protected]
Iberia Tradelink Wood Products Rua Jose Joaquim de Freitas,155, P-2750-404 Cascais, Portugal Tel: +351(0)21 484 9480 Fax: +351(0)21 484 9489 email: [email protected] Malaysia Tradelink Kuala Lumpur (Branch of Singapore) No. 16A, Jalan USJ 4/6B, Subang Jaya 47600, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, West Malaysia Tel: +60(0)3 8024 9511 Fax: +60(0)3 8024 9453 email: [email protected]
Singapore Tradelink Wood Products Pte Ltd 5 Nim Crescent, Singapore, 807688
Tel: + 65(0) 65 64818336 Fax: + 65(0) 65 64814511 email: [email protected]
South Africa Tradelink Wood Products Pty Suite 2, A Block, Sanyati Park, 3 Abrey Road, Kloof 3610, South Africa Tel: +27(0) 31 764 2260 email: [email protected]
U.S.A. Tradelink Wood Products Inc.
215B Industrial Avenue, Greensboro, North Carolina 27406, U.S.A. Tel: +1(336) 230 2220 Fax: +1(336 230 2227
email: [email protected] United Kingdom Tradelink Wood Products Ltd (Sales) Suite C, Phoenix House, Pyrford Road, West Byfleet, Surrey, KT14 6RA Tel: +44(0)20.7460.7777 Fax: 7775 email: [email protected]
A brief history of the Group Tradelink was established in 1989 in London and procurement offices were set up in South East Asia and Brazil. The senior operating executives of the Tradelink Group were formerly employed within the Interwil Group, which had been established and built up by them over a quarter of a century into a respected international timber trading Group. During the following 25+ years Tradelink expanded to the current day when they have: Trading Offices in 7 countries: Canada, China, France, Portugal, South Africa, United Kingdom and United States of America; Procurement Offices in South America, North America, Malaysia, Singapore & China; and a Manufacturing Plant (Flooring, Decking, Components) in Brazil.
The extended Group’s customers benefitted from the international synergies provided by the network of offices worldwide, covering the procurement, shipping and marketing of forest products.
The Products
Kiln Dried Sawn Timber Kiln Dried Sawn Timber
Air Dried Sleepers Air Dried Sawn Timber
Packs Flooring Air Dried Decking bundles
Kiln Dried Decking. Kiln Dried S4S
Tradelink UK’s stock in Durban, South Africa. Tradelink UK’s stock in Shanghai, China.
Tradelink France’s stock in Nantes. Tradelink UK’s flooring stock in Savanah, USA.
Manufacturing Division
Tradelink’s factory in Ananindeua, Brazil – 35ha in an industrial estate with more than 36,000m2 under cover.
Raw material stock - air dried sawn timber is placed on stickers for seasoning.
Timber on stickers is dried in Kilns for drying prior to machining. Tradelink has 25 kilns with a capacity of 3000m3/month.
Some of the Technical and Quality controle personel involved in the manufacturing flooring products.
Modern line for manufacturing decking. Bundles of decking after strapping.
Zero Waste - facilities to generate heat for the kilns and to manufacte briquettes from sawdust.
Procurement Tradelink has a world wide procurement division - these offices are staffed by specialists, well versed in local conditions and customs. Users of wood are often unaware of the enormous difficulties involved in securing supplies at source and complying with local and international regulations. The advantages to Tradelink’s customers of having experienced personnel in the timber-sourcing regions, procuring from selected suppliers, cannot be over-emphasised. Expert procurement officers & inspectors supervise the grading of products at source, in order to minimize the quality deficiencies prior to shipment. They also ensure that everything purchased passes very strict legal and environmental compliance procedures. This is invaluable to customers in relation to complying with international laws such as EUTR/Europe and the Lacey Act/USA. Our Procurement services are equally valuable to the suppliers, enabling them to market the various grades they produce.
Freight and shipping When trading in forest products world wide, the professional organization of freight is paramount. Tradelink’s management has had many years of experience in arranging the transportation of its cargo at favorable rates.
The old fashioned way – loading by breakbulk vessel.
Most timber products are now shipped in modern container vessels.
Loading Kiln Dried S4S components into Containers.
Loading Sleepers into containers. Bundles delivered to port by truck. Containers delivered to port by truck.
Environment
The future of Tradelink’s business depends on the long-term availability of hardwood timber and allied wood products. The forests are vital to both local and global environments, economies and communities. The group attaches great importance to good environmental management with a sound and balanced attitude to the forests’ eco-systems and the lifestyles of their dependent peoples. Tradelink has achieved FSC and PEFC chain of custody certification in 1999 and are actively seeking to expand their sources of supply in FSC and PEFC certified forest products. Tradelink has also received FSC and PEFC Multi Site certification for the entire group. Tradelink complies with the UK Timber Trades Responsible Purchasing Policy Commitments (RPP) and strictly maintains its Environmental Policy and adopts a structured system of monitoring and assessing its suppliers by applying a robust and comprehensive due diligence procedure to collect information about each supplier and every shipment made in order to assess the risk of illegally harvested timber being present and take appropriate mitigating actions if any risks are identified. Tradelink is able to assure its clients in the EU that the Due Diligence procedures required for EUTR were already part of Tradelink’s procedures when the law came into being in March 2013. Tradelink also complies with other regulations such as Lacey Act in the USA. Responsibility towards customers and society as a whole demands a sound and balanced attitude to the protection of the environment, as well as ensuring supplies in the future. The Tradelink group has an on-going programme to monitor waste management and to conserve resources by re-using, recycling or recovering value of by-products at its manufacturing sites. Tradelink complies with the UK Modern Slavery Act, and is committed to preventing slavery and human trafficking in its corporate activities, and to ensuring that its supply chains are free from such practices.
Tradelink WOOD PRODUCTS LTD
Tradelink House
25 Beethoven Street
London, W10 4LG
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-20-7460-7788
Fax: +44-20-7460-7799
Email: [email protected]
EUTR Compliance 10/06/2017 This document explains our obligations to meet the requirements of the EU Timber regulation (EUTR) which came into force on 03rd March 2013. Who is affected? The Regulation divides those who deal in timber and timber products into two categories: Operators and Traders.
Operators are those who first place timber products on the EU market and they carry the bulk of the responsibility.
Tradelink act as operators when importing the goods into Europe and arrange the customs clearance.
Traders are those who buy or sell timber or timber products already on placed in the EU market and are required
only to keep track of who they buy from and who they sell to for five years. This information is only needed for the
period up to the last point of sale between businesses. No information is needed on sales to end consumers.
Tradelink’s responsibility as Importer (i.e. the Operator)
We are required to exercise Due Diligence when placing wood on the EU market. It is down to us to implement a Due
Diligence system designed to minimise the chances of the wood coming from, or being made of wood which comes
from, illegally harvested sources. We therefore implement a risk management system based on:
1. Having access to information describing the timber and timber products, country of harvest, species,
scientific name, quantity, details of the supplier and information on compliance with national legislation.
2. Assessing the risk of illegal timber in his supply chain, based on the information identified above and taking
into account criteria set out in the regulation.
3. Having risk mitigation procedures in place that are adequate and proportionate to minimise the risk of
placing illegal products on the market.
4. FLEGT or CITES licenses automatically comply with EUTR requirements and 2 and 3 above are not required.
5. FSC, PEFC and other credible certifications are not exempt from EUTR due diligence. These certifications can
be used only to mitigate risk in the due diligence process making 2 and 3 above less complicated.
If you buy imported goods from Tradelink we can assure you that the above Due Diligence procedures are already
part of our current procedures in place today. We have been complying with other regulations such as Lacey Act in the
USA for years already and we were among the first to sign up to the UK Timber Trade Federation’s Code of Conduct
and Responsible Purchasing Policy in 2007. Our customers will not need to worry about due diligence but only comply
with EUTR’s requirements for Traders.
If you buy timber products from us on a forward basis with FOB, CFR or CIF incoterms and arrange your own import
into the EU we undertake to have done the Due Diligence required as for operators and to maintain the records for a
minimum of 5 years. We will disclose such information to you upon your signature of a Non-Disclosure Agreement
undertaking to use such information only in the event of a compliance audit for non-commercial purposes.
Further useful information and FAQ’s can be accessed on this website , set up by the EC and dedicated to the EUTR
I hope that this is clear but please do not hesitate to contact me if there are any questions.
Yours sincerely,
Robbie Weich
Environmental & Marketing Manager
Tradelink Wood Products Ltd. Member of the Tradelink International Group
Responsible Purchasing Policy Commitments
Management Structure
The Tradelink group has appointed a director responsible for the implementation of this Policy and will
ensure that relevant environmental issues are discussed regularly at the highest level of management.
The Tradelink group will ensure that all employees associated with timber purchasing are aware of the Policy
and its commitments and are given appropriate education and training to allow its full implementation. Responsibility
The Tradelink group recognises that it has a responsibility to the environment, customers, suppliers
and staff to base commercial activities on well-managed forests. TTF Code of Conduct
The Tradelink group is committed to the Timber Trade Federation Code of Conduct and applies
the Environmental Code of Practice to all wood procurement activities.
Legality
The Tradelink group is committed to purchasing all timber from legal sources and will seek evidence
of compliance from suppliers that they are operating in accordance with the laws of the country.
The company unreservedly condemns illegal logging practices and will keep informed of international processes and changes in legislation.
Endangered Species
The Tradelink group will not trade in timber species prohibited under Appendix 1 of the CITES legislation
and will obtain the appropriate documents for trade in all other CITES listed timber species. Traceability and Supplier Monitoring
The Tradelink group will perform a Risk Assessment on all Suppliers, as documented by the RPP.
The assessment will seek to provide the clearest practicable information regarding the sources of raw
material used in the manufacture of wood products.
This information will form part of purchasing decisions and will be made available on request to
independent verifiers. Timber Certification
The Tradelink group supports international efforts to improve forest management, for example,
the development of credible timber certification schemes. The company recognises that the independent certification of forests and the process chain is a useful tool for providing assurances that the timber comes
from legal and well-managed forests. The company will only accept, or use labels of certificates that include environmental or sustainability claims, supported by publicly available standards drawn up in a fully
participatory, transparent and objective manner and backed by independent inspection.
Avoid Boycotts
The Tradelink group will not encourage boycotts or bans on specific species of timber. Notwithstanding
this, the company will cease to purchase any timber and timber products supplied in breach of the
Timber Trade Federation Code of Conduct and, in particular, the Environmental Code of Practice. Continuous Improvement
The Tradelink group is committed to work with relevant trade organisations, NGOs and governments to
develop its purchasing policy. The company is committed to continuously raise the proportion of timber
and timber products, in accordance with the stepwise approach, that originates from legal and sustainably managed forests. Reporting and Audit
The Tradelink group will report annually to the appointed auditors. The auditors will assess and verify
the company’s progress and compliance under the policy.
A copy of this document is available to all stakeholders on request.
Signed on the 4th of March 2013 in London, United Kingdom.
Chief Executive H.P Schey
Environmental Manager L. R. Weich