An ALLIANCE culture to safeguard Africa's forests
INTERHOLCO invites you to discover "SUSTAINABLE HARDWOOD, MADE IN AFRICA" and the solutions it offers for meeting the major challenges facing the planet. A forest is so much more than just its trees. She is the nurturing mother and source of healing for the local communities and indigenous peoples who have interacted with her over the course of thousands of years. She is the land where their identities, relationships, traditions and cultures come to life; the sacred being animated by their hopes for the future. She is home to thousands of species, from fungi to insects, from birds to gorillas. She regulates the water cycle and the formation of the rainfall that is so critical to the balance of the climate and the survival of the Earth. She offers the world's population a revolutionary material: wood. Known and used since antiquity, it is the only building material that is healthy, natural, sustainable, traceable, recyclable, renewable and carbon positive. See you on our web site: www.interholco.com
INTERHOLCO invites you to discover "SUSTAINABLE HARDWOOD, MADE IN AFRICA" and the solutions it offers for meeting the major challenges facing the planet.
A forest is so much more than just its trees. She is the nurturing mother and source of healing for the local communities and indigenous peoples who have interacted with her over the course of thousands of years. She is the land where their identities, relationships, traditions and cultures come to life; the sacred being animated by their hopes for the future. She is home to thousands of species, from fungi to insects, from birds to gorillas. She regulates the water cycle and the formation of the rainfall that is so critical to the balance of the climate and the survival of the Earth. She offers the world's population a revolutionary material: wood. Known and used since antiquity, it is the only building material that is healthy, natural, sustainable, traceable, recyclable, renewable and carbon positive.
See you on our web site: www.interholco.com
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HARVESTING<br />
AND PROCESSING<br />
AN <strong>ALLIANCE</strong><br />
CULTURE<br />
Forestry Industry of Ouesso (IFO) – Ngombé, Republic of the Congo<br />
IHC subsidiary: harvesting and processing<br />
• Currently one of the largest forestry companies in Central Africa.<br />
• IFO sustainably manages approximately 1.16 million hectares (11,600 km 2 )<br />
of natural forest situated in the north of the Republic of Congo.<br />
• Its value chain and forest management practices are certified<br />
according <strong>to</strong> FSC © principles and standards.<br />
• The company is involved in the following activities: forest management and<br />
timber harvesting, primary and secondary industrial processing on site and<br />
directly at the source, operating a hospital for employees and the local population,<br />
maintaining a library that is open <strong>to</strong> all, running schools (including the construction<br />
of the official school and a school specifically for indigenous children),<br />
provision of drinking water, ensuring electricity supply, the protection of animals<br />
against poaching and logistics operations.<br />
• More than 85% of the harvested wood is processed on site in<strong>to</strong> timber<br />
or other value-added products.<br />
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