¶ FSC Trace Blockchain Platform
| Company | FSC Trace |
| Website | https://fsc.org/en/fsctrace |
| Category | Logistics & mills interface › Remote sensing & mapping |
Commercial blockchain-powered platform providing end-to-end traceability for FSC-certified timber, offering verifiable information from source forest to final product.
¶ Overview
FSC Trace is a blockchain-based timber and forest products traceability platform developed under the auspices of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), designed to provide an immutable, transparent, and independently verifiable record of certified wood fibre and non-timber forest products as they move through global supply chains from forest of origin to end consumer. The FSC is an international non-governmental organisation that sets standards for responsible forest management and chain-of-custody certification, with over 350 million hectares of certified forest globally. Traditional FSC chain-of-custody (CoC) systems rely on paper-based documentation and periodic third-party audits, which are vulnerable to document fraud, data entry errors, and deliberate misrepresentation — problems that have led to high-profile deforestation and illegal logging scandals involving certified timber. FSC Trace addresses these vulnerabilities by recording each custody transaction — including harvest events, processing volumes, sales invoices, and species declarations — as a tamper-evident block on a distributed ledger, making the full provenance history of any certified product accessible for verification by buyers, auditors, and consumers. The platform integrates with existing CoC certification databases and can interface with log tracking systems, sawmill production management software, and customs declaration data. In the Australian context, FSC Trace is relevant to exporters of FSC-certified eucalypt pulp, certified hardwood timber, and plantation pine products seeking to demonstrate legal and sustainable origin to increasingly demanding export markets in Japan, China, Europe, and the United States. The platform also supports compliance with import regulations such as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which came into force in 2024 and requires due diligence proof that commodities including timber did not originate from recently deforested land.
¶ Details
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Company | FSC Trace |
| Type | Company |
| FWPA RD&E | 4.5 |