
ONF, major player in the sustainable forest management
“To ensure that the forester renews the forest is the main criterion in the public forests” Particularly attentive to the forest environments respect and to the sustainability of their management, we are ensuring the origin of our oak supplies, by carefully choosing our providers and by systematically favouring PEFC certification. ONF (Office national des […]
September 21, 2021 > Read more
Oak for oenology
In order to value raw material and in response to oenological practices*, we develop different ranges of oak products for oenology. Those products, made from stave quality oak not selected for barrels because of minor defects (wood fiber cut…), are a good organoleptic solution for ageing the wines intended to be consumed younger than wines […]
August 3, 2020 > Read more
Oak tiles
An ancestral roofing material resolutely turned towards the future and sustainable development Always concerned with the optimization of using oak raw material as much as possible, the Charlois group values staves that are too short for the cooperage into oak tiles* for roofing buildings. Formerly used in countries where there was a lot […]
September 6, 2019 > Read more
The Charlois group recovers 100% of its oak raw material
The Charlois group is the first forestry company by volume of French oaks (nearly 10% of the total volume of French oaks marketed each year) and the undisputed leader on the French staves market. Due to particularly selective quality criteria for the manufacture of staves, only half of the volume purchased is used in stave-mills. […]
July 26, 2019 > Read morereforestation program