SCA Containerboard places strong emphasis on the re-newability and re-cyclability of the raw materials it uses. We strive to offer environmentally-sound products and services, capable of continuously meeting customers’ and consumers’ needs with respect to functionality, economy, safety and environmental impact.
SCA Containerboard’s environmental programmes and actions focus on managing and minimising the environmental impact in every phase of our products’ life cycle. This policy is implemented through specific commitments with measurable targets and clear timelines. Commitments cover such areas as reducing water usage, specific organic content, CO2 emissions relative to production levels and reducing energy consumption. In addition, the SCA code of conduct requirements will continue to be integrated into existing supplier performance management systems.
As of March 2001, all SCA Containerboard production facilities have been certified according to the environmental management system standard SS-EN ISO 14001. This provides additional assurance that our products easily meet even the strictest supplier environmental requirements that customers may have.
Responsible fibre sourcing
The public is increasingly concerned with illegal logging and with environmentally and socially damaging practices. This has resulted in a greater need for forest companies, corporations and governments to assume a higher level of social and environmental responsibility concerning fibre sourcing.
SCA Containerboard ensures that no wood fibre used in its kraftliner mills (Obbola and Munksund, Sweden) comes from controversial raw material sources. These are defined as illegally logged timber, timber from forests with high conservation value, and timber from areas where human rights or traditional rights of indigenous people are being violated, areas being converted to plantations or non-forest use and areas where genetically modified trees are planted. All wood fibre supplied to our SCA Containerboard kraftliner mills are fulfilling the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) controlled wood criteria.
The FSC chain-of custody (CoC) certification is a further step in responsible fibre sourcing. These standards set out methods for tracing and verifying the origin of all the fibre raw material used. Today the SCA mill De Hoop in the Netherlands is FSC CoC certified and the Aschaffenburg and Witzenhausen mills in Germany as well as the Kraftliner Mills Obbola and Munskund in Sweden are in the process of attaining the FSC CoC Certificate.