There is a growing trend in customers interested in long-term sustainable solutions for flooring. They want high quality, eco-friendly flooring for their homes, opting more often for hardwood flooring and engineered wood flooring over other alternatives.
According to the National Wood Flooring Association, of which Arimar is a member, wood floors are the most environmentally friendly flooring option available. Unlike other flooring materials, the raw materials used to make them – trees – can regrow after they are cut down, which replaces the material that is harvested.
We believe that every company has a duty to be environmentally responsible and we take this responsibility very seriously. All our materials are sourced from sustainable managed forests and meet stringent global environmental standards. Wood, if sourced correctly, is one of the most renewable resources in the world. Other kinds of man made floors are produced in factories which requires huge amounts of energy and the emission of more greenhouse gases.
In the United States, the hardwood forests that provide flooring products are growing more than twice as fast as they are being harvested, according to the National Wood Flooring Association. Although it usually takes hardwood trees about 40 to 60 years to mature (depending on the species), wood flooring can last well beyond 100 years in service when properly maintained. Wood also stores carbon during its service life and is a carbon-neutral product. This means any manufactured wood product – furniture, cabinets, wood floors, or even picture frames – continues to store carbon as a manufactured end-product.
Wood floors also reduce the amount of waste in our landfills because they can last for many generations and require fewer raw materials to produce than other flooring options. Wood floors can be recycled into other materials. Wood is combustible, which means it can be used as fuel or as a heating source. If the wood does end up in the landfill, it is biodegradable, which means it will decompose.
One of the best ways to reduce landfill waste with wood is to utilize it for reclaimed flooring. This is a process where old wood is used to make new wood flooring. Reclaimed wood can come from a variety of sources, including wood salvaged from old barns or factories, and logs recovered from river and lake bottoms. Flooring made from reclaimed wood is truly unique and displays significant history and character.
We use wood that is planted to produce natural rubber as the base for our products. This means the tree is neither removed from the forest nor cut down for timber. It is only felled when it must be replaced towards the end of its natural productive life. In fact, around 70% of every board we produce as finished flooring is from plantation sourced wood.
We at Arimar take every care to ensure that we purchase only legally sourced timber. You may therefore walk on your beautiful floor with absolute confidence that you have made the right choice for both you and our planet.
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