DuChateau Responds to FSC Certification Suspension

San Diego, Calif.—The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) suspended DuChateau's trademark license agreement, as well as that of its supplier, due to incompliant use of FSC claims and trademarks, promoting and selling wood flooring as FSC-certified.

The FSC’s accreditation body, Accreditation Services International (ASI), concluded that the San Diego-based flooring importer, as well as one of its Chinese suppliers, have engaged in the incompliant claims, and as consequence, on May 21, 2018, FSC suspended DuChateau's trademark license agreement, and the move also triggered the suspension of both companies' Chain of Custody (CoC) certificates, according to the Sierra Club. The suspension will be in effect for at least 12 months, during which time DuChateau must cease using the FSC trademarks on its website and promotional materials, as well as remove FSC labels from product packaging, retail merchandising and samples.