Committed to Sustainable Wood Manufactoring and Construction
Architects use wood because it is friendly with Mother Earth.
Our Unalam team shares your values of excellence, commitment to quality, and making business decisions that benefit our community and our planet. Our customers have the advantage of our custom wood design, engineering and manufacturing expertise. We manufacture all of our glulam and fabricate our steel connections at our plant in Sidney, NY, USA, employing talented local team members and partnering with local vendors.
Since the 1970s, we’ve used wood waste to heat our plant, reducing our carbon footprint and passing savings to customers. As one of the first North American glulam manufacturers to earn Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) Chain-of-Custody certification, we provide FSC® 100% and FSC® Mix lumber for custom glulam projects.
FSC® certification ensures our wood comes from responsibly managed forests, with materials tracked from harvest to final product. This ‘chain of custody’ system allows FSC®-labeled products to be traced back to their certified sources, linking consumer choice to sustainable forest management.
Strong, Sustainable, and Built to Last: Unalam’s Commitment to a Greener Future
At Unalam, we believe in sustainable solutions, and glulam is one of the greenest building materials available. Compared to concrete and steel, it requires significantly less energy to produce while actively sequestering carbon. Harvesting wood for glulam also promotes new growth, which absorbs even more carbon than mature trees. The carbon stored in glulam remains locked away for the life of the building, making it a smart choice for both durability and environmental responsibility.
For companies like Unalam that manufacture certified products, certification means that the wood products have come from certified forests. All materials are tracked as they leave the forests and become products down stream. This “chain of custody” (COC) certification process is quite simple. Like any inventory control system, COC allows products to be segregated and identified as having come from a particular source—in this case, an FSC®-certified forest.
FSC®’s model of certification allows products that flow from certified forests to enter the marketplace with a credential that is unique. Any FSC® labeled product can be traced back to a certified source. This aspect of the system is the basis for any credible certification system and is the link between consumer preference and responsible, on-the-ground forest management.
