May 22, 2019 – An update to our valued readers. Helveta is alive and well once again with a new mission: to make sure that every person in the world has the information to make decisions that will lead to a happy home while taking environmental responsibility into account. In the coming weeks, you’ll notice a new website, new content, and a new mission that we’ll be rolling out. Helveta remains stronger than ever. We couldn’t me more excited to share what we have in store for you!
About Helveta
Helveta provides you with the tools to protect your business, your community and your environment by tracking assets as they move through complex supply chains. Helveta’s software platform, CI World™ tracks your product from source to its final destination and provides a range of task specific modules that enable you to better manage and control your supply chains.
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New article: Making the most of sustainability – Biofuels International
Tracking legal timber in Honduras: From communities to guitars
Cameroon and the EU meet to review progress of the FLEGT VPA
CI World for Biofuels: Sustainable biofuel production management
Helveta Wins in Environment Category at the 2012 FT ArcelorMittal ‘Boldness in Business’ Awards
New Film: Supply chains for a demanding world
New Film: Legislation and Technology are Transforming the Timber Industry
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CI World for Forestry
CI World for Forestry
According to the World Bank, illegal logging causes losses in assets and revenue in excess of US$15 billion a year in developing countries alone. Timber companies and governments are using CI World to enhance control of their supply chains, to secure improved inventory management and to promote the economic and environmental future of their local communities. CI World enables the tracking of timber from the standing tree in the ground to finished product for export – right across the supply chain.
As consumers are becoming increasingly aware of food quality, safety, origin and traceability – pressure is being exerted on processors to keep track of every component in the manufacturing process. CI World is being used to monitor food supply chains from farm to factory providing growers, farmers, producers and agronomists with business critical data on issues ranging from crop quality in the field through to product characteristics as food ships to consumer locations.
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What Customers Are Saying About Helveta
“Helveta is an amazing product. The forestry industry needs software and hardware like Helveta in order to prevent deforestation” -John S.
“I absolutely love this company. They not only have an amazing product, but what they are doing for the forests, the world, the environment…it’s much needed. I’ve spent my lifetime in the forestry industry, and these guys know what they are doing” -Corryn P.
Profile of Helveta in the Financial Times
Ed Lascelles vividly remembers the first time he came across Helveta, a small Oxfordshire-based software company. As a venture capitalist, Lascelles sees two or three business plans every day. But Helveta’s stood out, thanks to some unusual details included in one pilot project.
The company recruited pygmies in the Congo basin to use what they thought were “boxes of magic” to scan trees. “We thought, this is unusual, this is interesting,” says Lascelles. The boxes of magic were, in fact, Motorola handsets, and the Baka pygmies were using them to scan barcodes affixed to trees. They then tapped picture icons to record whether a certain tree was sacred, or bore fruit on which the tribe depended. Helveta’s client, the Cameroonian government, was trying to ascertain which trees played important roles in the lives of the nomadic tribes, and which could be felled for timber. “Forestry groups will say, ‘no one lives here’,” says Simon Bates, head of implementation at Helveta, which was founded in 2004. “The icon-based system shows ‘this is a sacred tree; I fish in this river; I drink this water’. It shows ‘this is my home’.”
Read the full article – Chipping Away at Deforestation – in the Financial Times