NewPage Releases Sustainable Development Report
NewPage Corp., Miamisburg, Ohio, USA, a producer of printing and specialty papers in North America, has released its Sustainable Development Facts and Figures 2013 report. NewPage produces an annual sustainable development report to provide its stakeholders a look at the company's performance and activities designed to improve the way it manages human, natural, and financial resources. The company focuses on five areas of sustainability:
- Healthy, safe and engaged employees
- Responsible sourcing of raw materials
- Efficient and sustainable manufacturing
- Responsible and safe products
- Strong, viable communities.
The report provides an overview of the company's performance and latest actions in these five key areas of sustainability. Highlights from the report include:
- Achieved best annual safety performance with a Total Case Incident Rate of 1.71.
- Obtained 48% of its fiber from certified and recycled sources. All fiber was procured from North America and in compliance with the requirements of the U.S. Lacey Act and European Union Timber Regulation for legal fiber sources. All NewPage mills also have maintained chain-of-custody systems that are third-party certified to the FSC Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification and Sustainable Forestry Initiative standards.
- Supplied 95% of the pulp used to make products from internal production.
- Used some 54% renewable biomass fuels (the company’s largest energy source).
- Achieved a 14.7% reduction in total greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels. This achievement brings NewPage closer to the company's goal to cut total greenhouse gas emissions by 15% from 2005 levels by 2020.
- Researched, developed and launched new products Anthem Plus®, PointSil™ Densified Liner, and LittleFoot™.
- Shipped 78% of product volume by U.S. EPA SmartWay™ Transport Partnership carriers.
The NewPage Sustainable Development Facts and Figures 2013 report includes performance data from January 1 through Dec. 31, 2013. A downloadable, printable PDF of the report is available online.
NewPage owns paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, with a total annual production capacity of some 3.5 million tons of paper. The company's portfolio of paper products includes coated, supercalendered, and specialty papers.
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