ABOUT US

Brazilian company, both of investments and operational, focused on defining a new standard for the timber industry. Our goal is to produce high quality timber for sawmill, with the planting of natural occurrence species of the Atlantic forest in a consortium, through reforestation and management of planted forests.
We control and manage the whole process, from selecting species, mother trees, seeds, seedlings, forming and managing forest stands, to the final product that reaches costumers. Each planted tree in our farms goes through a strict selection in order to produce high quality wood.
We have, at least, 60 mother trees marked for each of the 30 native species that we have planted in our production forests. This means that we have access to essential genetic variability to ensure the right supply of seeds, enable the formation of areas for seed collection, implement forest improvement programs and establish an “ex situ” genetic reserve for each of these species.

By using native species, we maximize biological growth and appropriate adaptability to the environment.
In the formation of commercial stands, different consortia with native and exotic species are used. These consortia, besides providing benefits to the system’s elements, offer different colors and textures of the timber spectrum, diversify marketing risks, minimize the effects of tropical monocultures, and have a positive impact on biodiversity.

The species used in the consortia have historically been the most wanted in the timber trade and, virtually all of them are already commercially unavailable. We have established a new opportunity to bring back these products, now in a sustainable manner.
Legal Reserves and Permanent Protection Areas are in accordance with or exceed the requirements of municipal, state, and federal laws. Over one hundred and sixty different Atlantic Forest species have already been used in these reconstitution and restoration projects, which not only restore the ecosystem functions, but also promote the recovery of biodiversity.
Previously, the predominant land use on our farms was cattle breeding. Based on this feature, we initially performed a forest inventory and, sequentially, monitored the fauna and flora, so that we could qualify and quantify the inflow of biodiversity that, gradually, has been occurring in our forest farms.
Our system predicts that the production of sustainable forestry wood is essential due to the increased demand for wood and industrialized wood as substitutes for energy-intensive materials such as steel and concrete.

The increased demand for forest products should and will be supplied by managed plantations in a sustainable manner, not by further deforestation of the existing natural forests. Wood is a renewable and carbon negative material with potential viability in long-term use products, such as external and internal building structures, as well as furniture. Symbiosis’ commitment to the potential of wood mitigation encompasses tree growth, product substitution, and long-term carbon storage.