At an event held at Sydney's Taronga Zoo the company flew in
its vice director for sustainability and stakeholder engagement Aida Greenbury,
to outline the progress the giant Indonesian company has been making.
Indoneasia does not have the best green record, however Ms
Greenbury pointed out thyat illegal logging was virtually exclusively carried
out by rogue companies seeking to export hardwood to Malaysia
for furniture manufacturing.
She presented a barrage of certification documentation
highlighting the APP"s external validation for its printing papers, including
FSC CoC certification for most of them. She highlighting the multifarious
external nature support programmes that the company was engaged in, and told
the assembled guest, of whom there were plenty, that the company has just
produced its first annual sustainability report, and that it had won the award
for 'best first sustainable report'.
APP is the owner of several pulp mills in Indonesia
and China, and several
paper manufacturing mills. Half its pulp for its paper manufacturing is
supplied from its own mills, 15 per cent is imported, and 35 per cent is
recycled.
Indonesian will be come an increasingly important paper
manufacturing country, partly as Indonesian trees take only five years to grow
to maturity, compared with 25-40 years for Scandinavian trees.
Seeking to allay environmental fears Ms Greenbury explained
to the audience that of Indonesia's forests 44 per cent has been earmarked by
the government as never to be touched, 53 per cent can be harvested, but only
in a sustainable programme, a three per cent can be used for pulp production,
again under a sustainable programme.
Papers produced by APP mills are sold through various
merchants in Australia,
with Paper Force the agent for the company here, and it was Paper Force managing
director Paul George that hosted the events
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