KapStone Charleston Kraft Shows Sustainability Leadership With PEFC Chain-Of-Custody Certification
15 Giugno 2009 - 11:01PM
PR Newswire (US)
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C., June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As part
of a broad commitment to corporate social responsibility, KapStone
Charleston Kraft LLC, an unbleached Kraft paper and lumber
producer, recently certified to SFI(R) standards, is proud to
announce today it has also achieved certification to the Programme
for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC(TM))
chain-of-custody (CoC) standard across its five chip mills,
Summerville Lumber Mill and Charleston Kraft paper mill. KapStone
Charleston Kraft LLC is wholly owned by KapStone Paper and
Packaging Corporation (NASDAQ: KPPC). "At KapStone Charleston
Kraft, we have a strong commitment to sustainability, and so do our
customers," said Bruce Hoffman, Vice President and General Manager.
"Achieving multiple certifications in SFI fiber sourcing and
chain-of-custody and PEFC chain-of-custody is the foundation of our
efforts to provide our global customers with increased choices in
purchasing products containing fiber sourced by following
responsible forestry practices." With more than 494 million acres
certified, PEFC has become the world's largest forest certification
umbrella organization with 35 independent national schemes in
membership from all over the world. The PEFC provides an assurance
mechanism to purchasers of wood and paper products that they are
promoting the sustainable management of forests. Through PEFC
chain-of-custody certification, companies must have a tracking
system in place so they can tell customers the amount of certified,
uncertified and recycled content in the forest products they buy,
use or sell. Included in KapStone's PEFC CoC certifications are
five chip mill sites located in Kinards, Elgin, Andrews, Hampton
and Givhans, a lumber mill in Summerville, S.C., and a paper mill
in North Charleston, S.C. "Certification to the PEFC Standard means
we will be able to meet increasing market demand for sustainably
produced products, which is good for our business and good for our
forests," said Terry Jenkins, Vice President, Sales and Marketing,
Specialty Products. About KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation
Headquartered in Northbrook, Ill., KapStone Paper and Packaging
Corporation is a leading North American producer of unbleached
Kraft paper products and linerboard. The Company is the parent
company of KapStone Kraft Paper Corporation, which includes paper
mills in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., and North Charleston, S.C., a lumber
mill in Summerville, S.C., and five chip mills in South Carolina.
The business employs approximately 1,550 people. About PEFC The
PEFC Council (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification
Schemes) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental
organization founded in 1999, which promotes sustainably managed
forests through independent third party certification. The PEFC
provides an assurance mechanism to purchasers of wood and paper
products that they are promoting the sustainable management of
forests. PEFC is a global umbrella organization for the assessment
of and mutual recognition of national forest certification schemes
developed in a multi-stakeholder process. These national schemes
build upon the inter-governmental processes for the promotion of
sustainable forest management and a series of ongoing mechanisms
supported by 149 governments in the world covering 85% of the
world's forest area. PEFC has in its membership 35 independent
national forest certification systems of which 25 to date have been
through a rigorous assessment process involving public consultation
and the use of independent assessors to provide the analysis on
which mutual recognition decisions are taken by the membership.
These 25 systems account for more than 200 million hectares of
certified forests producing millions of tons of certified timber to
the marketplace making PEFC the world's largest certification
system. The other national members' schemes are at various stages
of development and are working toward mutual recognition under the
PEFC processes. About SFI Inc. SFI Inc. is a 501c(3) non-profit
charitable organization, and is solely responsible for maintaining,
overseeing and improving the Sustainable Forestry Initiative
program (http://www.sfiprogram.org/), which is internationally
recognized and among the largest in the world. It is one of the
fastest-growing forest certification programs with over 160 million
acres (65 million hectares) of SFI-certified forests across North
America. The SFI Standard also includes unique fiber sourcing
requirements that promote responsible forest management on all
suppliers' lands and a chain-of-custody certification, which can
communicate to buyers how much certified fiber is in a specific
product. The SFI forest standard is endorsed by the Programme for
the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes, a global umbrella
organization that has strict requirements for endorsement. SFI Inc.
is governed by a three-chamber board of directors representing
environmental, social and economic sectors equally. DATASOURCE:
KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation CONTACT: Larry Cobb,
KapStone Charleston Kraft LLC, Public Affairs & Communications
Manager, +1-843-745-3025 Web Site: http://www.sfiprogram.org/
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