Svenska Cellulosa
| Industry:paper & forest | ISIN:SE0000112724 | Country:SE | CRR:B |
Company Profile:
Svenska Cellulosa (SCA) is a Sweden-based consumer goods and paper product company. The company develops, produces and markets personal care products, tissue, packaging solutions, publication papers and solid wood products.
Strengths/weaknesses profile:
Strengths:
- monitoring and transparent disclosure of relevant resource consumptions and emissions
- implementation of various measures to reduce environmental impact of logging operations
- good measures to ensure that wood is not supplied from environmentally controversial sources
- reasonable measures regarding the responsible use of controversial chemicals during paper production
- reasonable measures to check compliance of key suppliers with the company's labour/health and safety standards
Weaknesses:
- lack of transparency on measures taken to create opportunities for indigenous people from operations
Reasons for inclusion in the Index:
The company has taken exemplary measures to reduce the environmental impact of its own logging activities (certification of own forest management by the Forest Stewardship Council, management programme for resource-conserving forestry) and is implementing measures to prevent the sale of timber originating from controversial logging sites (self-regulation and self-reporting of suppliers, audits).
Company website:www.sca.com/en/Sustainability