Through sustainable timberland management, LUMIN provides products that meet a wide variety of human needs while preserving a healthy environment.

Uruguay’s national forestry standards were originally modelled after LUMIN’s management practices. Our business is driven by a desire to ensure a reliable supply of products from responsible and sustainable sources for our global client base.

Our timberland is 100% comprised by pine and eucalyptus plantations, and our mill uses wood fiber from our own plantations and other plantations nearby. Our procurement policy precludes the purchase of wood products from at-risk timberland, which is defined in our procurement guidelines. Lumin supports 3rd party certification of forest practices. Our approach relies on two types of standards: one for environmental management systems, the other for specific practices associated with growing and harvesting trees. We carry out our operations in accordance with the internationally accepted standard for the environmental management system known as ISO 14001.

One of the pillars of LUMIN's responsible forest management is the production of essential wood goods for humanity, conserving natural resources and biodiversity. To achieve these objectives, this principle of sustainability is put into practice from planning to the establishment of our forests, designing the stands according to the potential of the site, both for productivity and for the conservation of values and the wealth of natural resources and biodiversity, respecting areas of high value for conservation and maintaining the connection between ecosystems to conserve.

An important task within these principles is the monitoring of fauna and flora throughout the company's assets, which allows understanding possible changes and adjusting management to them.
The following audiovisual material is part of the monitoring of the management that LUMIN carries out.

LUMIN certifies the forest management of its plantations following the Forest Stewardship Council® standard, SGSCH-FM/COC-012049, (FSC-C162602) and has Chain of Custody certification, SGSCH-COC-006354 (FSC-C002169 ) to ensure our clients the responsible management of our products throughout the production chain, from forest to the final costumer. This certification scheme provides external and third-party credibility for the responsible management of our forests and products. If you want to know more about FSC®, visit www.fsc.org.

Lumin has a Forest Management Plan that establishes the reference framework for the operation and is focused on determining the guidelines for the establishment and development of the forest resource base in the long term. If you want to know more about our forest management, we invite you to see the Public Summary of our Management Plan available at www.lumin.com/sustainability.

LUMIN Carbon Sequestration Project

Committed to climate change mitigation, sustainable development with citizenship engagement.

Project description

Uruguay’s forest sector has a significant role in the socio-economic development of the country, especially rural regions. LUMIN is committed to sustainable forest development and its operations in Uruguay are designed not only in accordance to legal environmental regulations in the country. Also, to LUMIN’s highest operational and environmental corporate requirements in its commitment to preserve soil, water and air quality, as well as community well-being.
LUMIN Forest Plantation on Degraded Grassland under Extensive Grazing is not the exemption. This project started in February 22^nd 2006, the first GHG emission removal activities (preparing land for planting) were implemented. This initial project comprised of a total of 18,191 ha of land in Uruguay previously under extensive grazing by cattle, was converted into forest plantations. The goal is to producelong-lived timber products, resulting in the sequestering of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in different pools, reverting the existing soil degradation process that has been occurring for several years. It will remove a total amount of 5,601,938 tCO2 , equivalent to the emissions of crude oil imported in Uruguay in one year.

Social benefits

Promotion of small business

LUMIN project activity generated several job opportunities, creating nearly 260 job positions during the agrarian phase. There were also approximately 70 local farmers whose business benefitted from grazing beef cattle in the project´s farms.

Reduction of rural poverty and geographic decentralization of development.

LUMIN operations also contribute to the reduction of rural poverty through the generation of high quality and stable employment, whilst reverting the process of rural migration to big cities in a region of Uruguay with elevated levels of poverty.

Rural schools have also benefited from LUMIN´s commitment to education. The company has assisted with the donation of materials, environmental educational programs and human resources to several primary schools.

Environmental benefits

The area that is part of the project not only has forests. Depending on its suitability, it also includes non-forested land (approximately 40%) that is destined to other uses such as cattle and sheep grazing, agriculture for biofuel crops, apiculture or left in its natural state as environmental reserve tracts.

This project includes important ecosystems such as Sierra de Rios, Rio Yaguaron and Arroyo Tacuari, with very high biological diversity measured through birds’ assessment and monitoring, and rare or uncommon included in international conservation databases (IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature).

Within rare or uncommon species inhabiting this ecosystem, there are vulnerable species ones exposed to a high risk of extinction in wild environment, near threatened or of high priority for conservation, endangered or highly risk of extinction.

Technical Data

Project ID: 960
Project Proponent:EUCAPINE
Project Status Registered: Public
Sectoral Scope 14. Agriculture, Forestry, Land Use
Project Methodology: AR-ACM0001
GHG Origination Program Verified Carbon Standard
Registry Markit
Project Validator and Verifier: Rainforest Alliance, Inc.
Annual VCU estimated: VCUs verified in 2013: 2.6 M tCO2