Sustainability

We believe that our sustainability initiatives must make sense for you, your customers, your bottom line, and the environment.

Our goal is to be good stewards, while also delivering pallets that meet our customers’ requirements, repair specifications, and drive down the average cost of pallets. We have saved millions of dollars and tens of thousands of truckloads of virgin lumber in the process.

Sustainability and responsible use of resources has always been critical to Olympic Forest Products, both as part of our bottom line as well as in our core business principles. The majority of our products are made from a renewable resource-wood. In our affiliate manufacturing plant, Specialty Design & Pallet, 99.9% of all material is recycled. From lumber to sawdust, we make it our business to relentlessly reduce, reuse, and recycle.

One tool that has been vital to Olympic’s sustainability goals is our participation in EcoVadis, an organization that helps us to evaluate, monitor, and improve upon our corporate social responsibility initiatives in the following areas: