Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper celebrates 5 years of the Green Range with the launch of online Green Modules
Mondi’s latest Green Range initiative supports the company’s cooperation with the NGO OroVerde. For every Green Modules participant, Mondi will donate 1 euro, to OroVerde’s reforestation project in Guatemala and for every quiz completed 100% correctly Mondi will donate an additional 10 euros.
Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper (UFP) has launched an online training tool, the Green Modules, to provide customers with an educational tool and information about sustainable paper production. Mondi created the online microsite (www.mondigroup.com/greenmodules), which is accessible to the wider public by registering online and provides unlimited access to the modules.
“The Green Modules presents an opportunity to learn more about and contribute to sustainable development. Everyone who participates in the Green Modules helps to plant a tree in Guatemala. Mondi first became involved with OroVerde’s “Guatemala – Tree for Tree” project last year during the 2011 Year of the Forest, when we donated 1 percent of the net proceeds of all Green Range certified copy paper sold on November 15th. With this latest initiative, OroVerde will be able to plant more than 10, 000 trees in Guatemala,” says Johannes Klumpp, Marketing and Sales Director Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper. “We are pleased to continue supporting OroVerde’s reforestation initiative with our contribution from the Green Modules.”
The OroVerde “Tree for Tree” project works to preserve the unique biodiversity of the rain forest, which provides refuge for many rare and endangered animal species and also helps to combat climate change through carbon storage. According to OroVerde, one hectare of growing forest can trap up to 29 tonnes of CO2 out of the atmosphere every year.
CO2 off-setting and the emissions reduction projects Mondi participates in to provide CO2 neutral papers (NAUTILUS® SuperWhite and Color Copy) are among the issues covered in the Green Modules. Participants will also learn about the differences and similarities between the FSC™ and PEFC™ certification schemes, the environmental myths and facts behind the paper industry, and the credentials of Mondi’s Green Range.
“Mondi launched the Green Range five years ago, to highlight the company’s commitment to sustainable paper production. With a simple formula ─ Forest + Water + Air = Green Range ─ we can communicate how we responsibly manage our forests and impacts on water and air. All our paper is now part of the Green Range and is FSC™ or PEFC™ certified, 100% recycled or TCF [bleached without chlorine]” says Johannes Klumpp. Since the introduction of the Green Range in 2006, it has grown to include a wider range of products produced by Mondi.
For more information on the OroVerde “Tree for Tree” reforestation project and Mondi’s Green Range, please see: www.oroverde.de/projekte-international/guatemala.html and www.mondigroup.com/greenrange
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About Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper
Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper is a business unit of Mondi, a leading international paper and packaging company. In 4 paper mills in Austria, Slovakia, Russia and South Africa, Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper produces office and professional printing papers with the environment in mind. It complies with the strictest international certification standards and regularly earns recognition for this policy such as the #1 position in WWF’s 2010 Paper Company Environmental Index and the 2010 PPI Award for Mondi SCP Mill’s Environmental Strategy of the Year.
Its renowned brands such as Color Copy, DNS®, IQ, MAESTRO®, NAUTILUS®, BIO TOP 3® or Snegurochka are used in office environments on laser or inkjet printers and by professional printers on digital or offset presses to create brochures, transactional material, folders, invitations, business cards, letterheads or other high-impact communication.
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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