Nippon Paper Industries Aims for Forest Certification

Nippon Paper Industries Co. in Japan has developed action guidelines that include the application of forest certification systems. The company aims to obtain forest certification for company-owned forests at home and abroad by 2008.

Nippon Paper Industries has promoted tree plantations overseas in order to secure sustainable forest resources. It also purchases raw materials from well-managed forests. International forest certification systems, which evaluate the practice of sustainable forest management by a third party, have been established in recent years, and so the company decided to draw up its action guidelines based on forest certification.

Although the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification system is the best known in Japan, the company will adopt various certification systems that are appropriate to each of its forests. Also, the company would like to be accredited by the Sustainable Green Ecosystem Council (SGEC), established on June 3, 2003, for its forests in Japan.

In order to apply the concept of forest certification to its procurement of raw materials, the company will shift its total imports of hardwood chips to those supplied from certified forests or tree plantations by 2008, while taking other measures toward receiving certification for its own forests.


Posted: 2003/09/27 11:51:50 AM
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