Cox Cares About the Environment.
Cox is committed to preserving and maintaining our natural resources. The use of Cox treated products is actually quite beneficial to the environment, saving many trees and forest from overuse. By using Cox treated wood products — which have a longer lifetime — you not only reduce replacement costs, but you minimize the need to cut down more trees. Our treated wood is produced using plentiful, fast growing trees that are primarily grown in managed timberlands (not virgin forests). Our treatment is also made in part from recycled ingredients, and the treating process itself releases no air pollutants or wastewater, making it environmentally sound and smart.
Additional environmental facts:
- Wood is a renewable material.
- It requires less energy to produce than- alternative building products
- Treating extends the life of forest resources; it saves 226,000,000 trees each year in the U.S. alone.
Wood: The Sustainable Choice for Green Building.
- No other material can match wood's unique combination of benefits, including strength, affordability, ease of use and environmental superiority.
- Wood-frame construction has a 100-year track record for safety and dependability. That's why nine out of 10 homes today are built with wood.
- Building codes require all materials to provide the same degree of protection, even for extreme events such as earthquakes and hurricanes. Wood-frame construction is as safe, sturdy and dependable a building material as any other.
- Wood is the best insulator against heat and cold, which makes it the most energy-efficient material that can help keep home energy bills in check. Unlike steel and concrete, wood doesn't conduct heat and cold. Wood is 400 times less heat conductive than steel, so homes built with wood studs take less energy to heat and cool.
- Wood is the most affordable building material. The economy of wood construction is one of the many reasons why wood-frame construction has remained the preferred method for residential construction.
- Wood is easy to use and widely available. Its practicality and workability make construction simple and efficient for use in residential or commercial applications, including multi-story projects.
- As the world's only renewable building material, wood can not only be recycled, but regenerated as well. What's more, trees provide benefits to the environment while they grow, taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.
- Wood contributes far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than its non-renewable counterparts, steel and concrete. Although wood products make up 47 percent of all raw materials made in the United States, its share of energy consumption during production is only four percent of all manufactured materials.
Southern Forest Facts.
The forests of the South are often called "America's Woodbasket." Here are just a few of the many reasons why:
- 214 million acres of the United States' forestland is in the South.
- The South produces 15.8% of the world's timber production, and 58% of the timber production in the United States.
- By volume, the four most abundant Southern softwood species are loblolly, slash, longleaf, and short leaf (Southern Yellow Pine), making up one-third of the total inventory.
- Annually, softwood harvests total 6 billion cubic feet or 420 million tons of sawlogs, pulpwood, and other industrial roundwood products.
- Each year, Southern landowners plant one billion seedlings. Following annual harvests, 3.3 million acres are reforested.
- 89% of Southern forests are privately owned; 11% are managed by government agencies.
Southern Forest Fact Sources: American Forest & Paper Association, USDA Forest Service, Frederick Cubbage and Robert Abt; North Carolina State University, Department of Forestry
