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From the forest
to the factory,
Taylor practices
eco-responsibility
at every level
As a guitar manufacturer, Taylor rec-
ognizes its role as an active participant
in a worldwide ecosystem — both liter-
ally and figuratively — in which natural
resources must be managed responsibly
to safeguard their future. We take
our responsibility to the environment
seriously, and want customers to feel
assured that when they purchase a
Taylor guitar, they are supporting the
highest levels of ethical, eco-conscious
business.
Sustainable forestry remains a cen-
tral issue among instrument makers, par-
ticularly in light of recent legislation that
includes the 2008 amendment to the
U.S. Lacey Act and coming regulations
from the European Union’s Forest Law
Enforcement, Governance and Trade
(FLEGT) organization. The spirit of both
laws aims to ensure that only legally
harvested timber makes its way into the
U.S. or the E.U., and with these regula-
tions come a variety of measures that
wood purchasers must take to ensure
the legality of the wood they acquire.
