Mondi Release Liner plant in Austria achieves FSC™-certification
Meeting Mondi’s commitment to responsible forestry, Mondi Release Liner Austria in Hilm, Austria became the first plant within Mondi’s Release Liner segment to be awarded FSC™ certification.
Mondi Release Liner Austria is certified according to the FSC™ “Chain of Custody” system. This system ensures the complete traceability of FSC™-certified paper through the supply chain, from the forest to the customer, including each successive stage of processing, transformation, manufacturing and distribution. The plant in Hilm currently holds FSC™ certification for its bleached kraft paper, which is commonly used for envelopes, labels and graphic arts. The certification can be extended to encompass other paper grades at the request of customers.
Franz Pehn, Managing Director of Mondi Release Liner Austria states, “our FSC™ certificate enables us to play an integral part in the sustainable supply chain within the converting and release liner industry. Our customers can be certain that our raw materials are sourced in a sustainable way that conserves nature and protects our forests. We are thus supporting our customers’ own GO GREEN initiatives and we provide them with another distinctive feature.”
The FSC™ certification underscores Mondi’s commitment to sustainable development as an integral part of the business strategy. Other Mondi Release Liner plants are expecting to be FSC™-certified in the near future.
Responsible forestry
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC™) is an international non-profit, multi-stakeholder organisation promoting responsible management of the world’s forests. FSC™-certified forests are managed to ensure long term timber supplies while protecting the environment and the lives of forest-dependent people. FSC™ certification is therefore awarded for good management practices that include strong social, environmental and economic activities.
Mondi supports and promotes the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC™). We believe that credible certification provides our customers, consumers and stakeholders with assurance that the wood and fibre we manage and procure have been legitimately sourced from sustainable forests, and that traceability systems are regularly inspected, audited and certified. All Mondi owned or leased forests in South Africa (0.3 million hectares) and Russia (2.1 million hectares) are certified in compliance with the standards of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC™). For mill operations that use virgin fibre, we commit to ensuring a CoC certification from FSC™, PEFC or a credible alternative.
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About Mondi Coatings & Consumer Packaging
Mondi Coatings & Consumer Packaging, a Business Unit of the Europe & International Division, is a backwards integrated, innovation leader of siliconised, plastic- and paper-based materials and packaging. With 21 plants, 4 converting terminals and a R&D Centre, we provide a customer oriented portfolio based on technologies such as siliconising, extrusion coating, film extrusion, laminating, printing and converting.
We serve a broad range of industries with tailored solutions such as customised release liner for the pressure sensitive adhesives industry, extrusion-coated applications for industrial papers and efficient barrier materials for food & non-food industries.
The portfolio further includes flexible packaging such as high quality barrier films, printed monofilms and laminates, pre-made paper and plastic bags as well as stand-up pouches with a wide range of features.
Through a worldwide sales and international plant network Mondi Coatings & Consumer Packaging provides global customer service and certified process standards. Backed by its own R&D Centre, it assures customers of tailor-made, advanced solutions and continues to drive innovation in the industry.
About Mondi
Mondi is an international paper and packaging Group, with production operations across 31 countries and revenues of €6.2 billion in 2010. The Group’s key operations are located in Central Europe, Russia and South Africa and as at the end of 2010, Mondi employed 29,000 people.
Mondi is fully integrated across the paper and packaging process, from the growing of wood and the manufacture of pulp and paper (including recycled paper), to the conversion of packaging papers into corrugated packaging, industrial bags and coatings.
The Group is principally involved in the manufacture of packaging paper, converted packaging products and uncoated fine paper (UFP).
Mondi has a dual listed company structure, with a primary listing on the JSE Limited for Mondi Limited under the ticker code MND and a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange for Mondi plc, under the ticker code MNDI. The Group has been recognised for its sustainability through its inclusion in the FTSE4Good UK, Europe and Global indices in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and the JSE’s Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Index in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
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