What are the emissions from heat treating wooden export crates?

ISPM 15 heat treatment holds the wood core at a set temperature for a set time, usually in a chamber heated by a wood waste or diesel boiler. Count fossil fuel in Scope 1, report wood fuel CO2 separately as biogenic, and add sawn timber per crate.

Inputs

• Boiler fuel per batch.
• Crates or cubic metres treated per batch.
• Sawn timber bought per crate.

Alternatives

Plywood or plastic pallets do not need treatment. Compare whole footprints, not only the treatment step.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads bills, fuel invoices and production records into dated, fingerprinted records, so the figure you send a buyer can be traced to its documents.

• Wooden vs plastic pallet
• EUDR and export pallets
• Plywood footprint

Sources: IPCC 2006 Guidelines, Volume 2 Energy (fuel defaults), GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, GHG Protocol Product Standard

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.