About Cox
Environmental Statement
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 Fact:
- 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 US 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 of safety and
dependability. That's why 9 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 "American'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.
Green
and Greener
Benefits of Wood
Life
Cycle of Wood Building Products