Craft·2026-01-21·4 min
What our FSC number actually means.
NS-COC-C012345: where every board on our yard comes from.
Maude Lavoie
/Head of communications
NS-COC-C012345: where every board on our yard comes from.
Our FSC chain-of-custody number — NS-COC-C012345 — is printed on every pallet band we ship. Here’s what it represents, and why it’s not the “green leaf” marketing claim it can seem like.
FSC’s chain-of-custody is a paper trail. Every tree felled on a FSC-certified forest is tracked through every hand it passes: forest owner, logging crew, mill, secondary mill, wholesaler, retailer. At any point, a third-party auditor can walk the trail backward and reconstruct the forest of origin.
We file audit documentation with FSC Canada each August. The audit checks three things: that our mill’s purchasing records match the volume claimed; that our secondary sort can isolate FSC-certified wood from commodity wood (we don’t buy any commodity wood, so this is a short check); and that our output labels match the inputs.
“FSC-certified” as a phrase is thrown around. NS-COC-C012345 is the specific number behind it at our mill. It’s the kind of detail that doesn’t matter until someone asks you where your wood is from — and it gets easier to answer when there’s a number you can read off a pallet.