Iggesund's Sustainability Package

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 04/17/2009

For each tonne of paperboard produced by Iggesund Paperboard last year, almost 200 kg of carbon dioxide was captured and stored in the forests of the Holmen Group, of which Iggesund is a part. "Accounting for our resource usage and environmental impact is becoming increasingly important," commented Lars Str?mberg, Holmen's director of sustainable and environmental affairs at the launch this month of the company's sustainability report, Holmen and its World 2008. "In just under a decade our sustainability report has become a powerful tool in both our sales activities and our contacts with the capital market… "At a time when all eyes are focused on the climate issue, it is a huge asset to be able to make products from natural raw materials and energy that do not use up finite resources or cause environmental problems. This is a major asset to the Scandinavian forest industry and especially to Holmen, which has extensive forest holdings and its own hydroelectric power." New to Holmen's sustainability report this year is a detailed carbon analysis that investigates how Holmen's forest holdings and forestry operations affect the climate. The analysis, which is based on research by Skogforsk (the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, concludes that Holmen's forest holdings and products annually remove 1.3 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere. The forest's annual capture of CO2 corresponds to almost 200 kg of CO2 per tonne of paperboard, paper or wood products that are produced by Iggesund Paperboard, Holmen Paper or Holmen Timber. Enditem