Anbrook Industries Ltd. Shows Environmental Leadership with SFI Chain-of-Custody Certification

Pitt Meadows, B.C. – As part of a broad commitment to corporate social responsibility, Anbrook Industries Ltd., a privately owned western red cedar shake & shingle manufacturing business, announced today it has achieved certification to the independent Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) chain-of-custody standard.

“ We are very pleased to announce this certification of our products under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative™ Program. It is important that we continue to strive to higher standards in all aspects of the manufacture of quality cedar products and we take great pride in knowing that the raw material that goes into our products meets the high standards set by the SFI Chain of Custody criteria. Consumers deserve good quality products that are derived from responsible sources, and we are proud that we can provide that to them. This empowers our customers to make an educated environmental choice about the products they buy.”

- Brooke Meeker, Vice President, Anbrook Industries

With more than 160 million acres certified across North America, the non-profit SFI sustainable forestry certification program is one of the largest in the world, with a standard based on principles and measures that promote sound forest management including measures to protect water quality, biodiversity, wildlife habitat, species at risk and forests with exceptional conservation value. Through SFI chain-of-custody certification, companies must have a tracking system in place so they can tell customers the amount of certified, uncertified and recycled content in the forest products they buy, use or sell.

“At a time when just 10 percent of the world’s forests are independently certified, Anbrook Industries joins a growing community of companies, landowners, and social and environmental organizations who have demonstrated their environmental commitment and leadership by achieving SFI certification,” said SFI Inc. President and CEO Kathy Abusow.

“Chain-of-custody certification means we will be able to service the increasing market demand for forest products from responsible sources, which is good for our business and good for our forests.”

-Clay Meeker, President, Anbrook Industries

About Anbrook Industries Ltd.

Anbrook Industries is a family-owned western red cedar shake & shingle manufacturer based in Pitt Meadows, B.C. The company manufactures under the Certi trademark of the Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau, and Anbrook products are known throughout the business as the benchmark for high quality roofing and siding materials.

For more information, please visit the corporate web site at www.anbrook.com

About SFI Inc.

SFI Inc. is a 501c(3) non-profit charitable organization, and is solely responsible for maintaining, overseeing and improving the Sustainable Forestry Initiative program (www.sfiprogram.org), which is internationally recognized and among the largest in the world. It is one of the fastest-growing forest certification programs with over 160 million acres (65 million hectares) of SFI-certified forests across North America. The SFI Standard also includes unique fiber sourcing requirements that promote responsible forest management on all suppliers’ lands and a chain-of-custody certification, which can communicate to buyers how much certified fiber is in a specific product. The SFI forest standard is endorsed by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes, a global umbrella organization that has strict requirements for endorsement. SFI Inc. is governed by a three-chamber board of directors representing environmental, social and economic sectors equally.