Sequoia Award Winners
Woodworker West, September-October, 1999
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Sequoia Award Winners
Woodworker West - September / October 1999
Tropical American Tree Farms was among four companies honored by the Association of Woodworking & Furnishings Suppliers (AWFS) for distinguishing themselves in the area of environmental responsibility. The awards were presented during the Anaheim Woodworking Machinery Fair.
Tropical American Tree Farms was cited for growing more than 830,000 precious tropical hardwood trees of more than 45 different species on tree farms in Costa Rica. Grown for later harvesting and selling, it is hoped that such tree farms could provide a sustainable supply of tropical hardwoods for the international market and ease pressure on cutting into the world's tropical rainforests.
Other Sequoia Award winners were the CanFibre Group of Riverside, CA for creating the first panel board factory in North America that utilizes 100% recovered urban waste to produce MDF; Sierra Pine Limited of Roseville, CA for manufacturing formaldehyde-free MDF from pre-and post-consumer recycled wood fiber; and Morton Powder Coatings of Reading, PA for developing and marketing environmentally friendly and cost-effective powder coatings for wood substrates, e.g., MDF.
Steve and Sherry Brunner of
Tropical American Tree Farms
in Costa Rica, winners of the
Sequoia Award at the Anaheim
Woodworking Machinery Fair.
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