TDSL’s main business activity is the manufacture of high quality timber-based doors. We undertake to conduct this business and generate profit in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.
TDSL believes it is environmentally beneficial to contribute to a sustainable international trade in timber and timber products, which recognizes the importance of the global forest resource for today and the future. TDSL believes that using timber from legal and well-managed forests can cause less environmental damage when measured on a true life-cycle analysis than equivalent use of competing materials such as steel, concrete, plastic etc. Timber can be grown indefinitely, it biodegrades safely and it can be burned to recover heat energy to displace the use of fossil fuels.Increased use of timber in construction can play a positive role in global carbon management and slow down the effects of climate change.
Nevertheless any business activity has environment side-effects and we at TDSL acknowledge we are no exception. Using our certified Environmental Management System (ISO14001:2004),we seek to understand, measure and minimise or mitigate
Those impacts over time through a process of continuous improvement and review.
This involves setting demanding but achievable objectives and performance targets and regularly reporting progress against them.
TDSL is committed to:
- Obtaining our timber materials from legally and sustainable managed sources.
- Measuring and progressively reducing our carbon footprint via our EMS.
- Minimizing and eventually eliminating the production of waste that cannot be recycled.
- Acting at all times to minimise the risk of pollution from our operations to air, land and water.
- Understanding and complying with all relevant legislation.
- Continuous improvement of performance against KP1 targets set in our EMS.
- Regular reporting of progress against those targets.
- Communicating our commitment to our suppliers, staff and customers.
Signed
Ash Malhan, Chief Executive Officer 30th April 2010
