About Certifications

To assist small businesses with the cost of certification, FSC® created the group standard. This standard allows companies that have forest product revenue of less than $10 million per year OR have no more than 25 employees (full-time equivalent), to ‘group’ together with other small companies to share a common certificate. It is under this system that RACG operates.

Total sales may exceed ten million dollars if there are divisions that separately conduct non wood product related services, such as website development or fulfillment. If you have annual forest product revenue of less than $10 million or no more than 25 employees (full-time equivalent), or are close to that, contact us and see if you qualify to participate.

A group certificate is different than a single certificate. Single certification requires independent development of systems; often without the expert support and comprehensive systems available to group participants. Couple that with the cost of single certification, which is generally double that of RACG participants, and RACG is clearly a superior alternative.

Companies in the $10 million to $100 million wood product sales range OR companies with more than 25 employees, are eligible for an individual standard FSC certification. We call this our Large Printer Program or LPP.

This program provides larger companies the same efficient and streamlined certification audit and trademark approvals of our group certification standard.

RACG and our certifying body, SGS North America, make maintaining certification easy through the use of our expert support and comprehensive systems. All designed for your use with your business in mind.