In other news.In other news: Tembec and The Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , Atlanta, Georgia, USA, have reached an agreement allowing The Home Depot to offer its customers larger amounts of FSC FSC See: Foreign Sales Corporation certified Spruce Pine Fir (SPF (1) (Stateful Packet Firewall) See stateful inspection. (2) (Sender Policy Framework) An e-mail authentication system that verifies that the message came from an authorized mail server. ) lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to . The Home Depot has a wood purchasing policy that favors suppliers that offer certified wood products. More than 25% of Tembec's Canadian forest operations are FSC certified, and the company intends to obtain certification for all 32 million acres of Canadian forest under its management by 2005. |
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