By 2022, all Gabon’s forest concessions must be certified “Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)” announced Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, September 26, passing through the Rougier Gabon’s sawmills Mvang, North country. an ecological act that could be interpreted at the strategic level by a discreet desire to reposition the French and European actors undermined by the Chinese and Asian steamroller.
The day after this decision, the Nkok Special Economic Zone set up a certification office. In this context, a service contract was signed on October 3, 2018 between the French company of forestry and industrial wood engineering, FRMi, and the NGO Brainforest.
In Gabon, just over 2 million hectares, or 14% of the forest estate, are FSC certified, with three companies (Rougier Gabon, Compagnie des bois du Gabon (CBG) and Precious Wood). Twelve wood processing companies in Gabon also have the FSC “Chain of Custody” label.
Africa’s leading producer of wood processing, the country exported more than 1,400,000 m3 of processed wood in 2017, including 600,000 m3 from Nkok’s SEZ.
