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Food, Beverages, Textiles, Wood, Pulp & Paper
(NACE codes 15. to 22.)
16/11/05
Portuguese printers ready to print under EMAS
A major step ahead has been taken by Eurodois - Artes Gráficas, Lda. and Euro-Scanner - Reprodução Gráfica Via Electrónica, Lda., two Portuguese offset printers, which have extended their commitment to environmentally friendly business to EMAS implementation.
Eurodois Artes Gráficas Lda is one of the largest Portuguese printing companies, founded in 1988, and it is also certified according to the ISO 9002 quality management system. The company is located in Sintra west of Lisbon.
Reprodução Gráfica Via Electrónica, Lda. was the first in Portugal to use waterless offset printing technology, which works with recyclable materials like silicone based plates and provides excellent prints on recycled paper.
Printing has been one of the sectors which has flourished under EMAS and provides one of the biggest potentials for promoting EMAS along the value chain through business-to-business links.
More information is available from the web about Euro-Scanner here.
15/04/05
Fast food environmental management
McDonald’s has once again found its commitment to the environment rewarded, after 43 franchise companies of the food corporation signed the Umweltpakt Bavaria.
‘Umweltpakt Bavaria – sustainable economy for the 21st century’; this is what the certificates of the 43 Bavarian franchise holders say. Its participants commit themselves to environmental protection activities exceeding legal requirements.
McDonald's has managed to increase the recycling quota to over 90 % in restaurant packaging. A spectacular measure has been taken by switching trucks to bio fuel from waste edible oils only. Considerable cost reductions of 30 % have been made by re-using energy from exhaust kitchen air for heating of customer areas in the restaurants.
Bavaria’s Minister of the Environment, Werner Schnappauf, pointed out that customers benefit from more transparency through McDonald’s official certification. Moreover, 53 suppliers of the chain are certified according to ISO 14001 or registered for EMAS, including well known producers like Develey or Hochland, who are members of the Umweltpakt Bavaria themselves.
More information about participants, conditions and funding under the Umweltpakt Bavaria are available from: www.stmugv.bayern.de/de/wirtschaft/umw_pakt/teilnahme.htm
14/03/05
First Czech food manufacturer registered for EMAS
Food and beverage manufacture has been the largest sector of EMAS for
several years, with EMAS being popular among key players in Germany,
Italy and Spain. Now Pekný - Unimex, s.r.o. has become the first
Czech food manufacturer to register for EMAS.
Based in Prague, Pekný – Unimex manufactures spices, spice blends,
dressings and teas. Three sites in Prague and six in other regions of the country
account for a turnover of 716 Mil. Crowns in 2003 (22.4 Mil. €). A market
share of 39 % makes Pekný – Unimex market leader in its sector
in the Czech Republic.
The environmental statement provides more information (Word doc. in Czech).
18/10/04
Paper manufacturers' race for EMAS registration continues: All Finnish UPM Kymmene sites registered
The current lead in the race to become the paper manufacturer with all its operations EMAS registered is enjoyed by Stora Enso with a record 53 out of their 76 European operations in the EU 25. Documentation can be found on http://www.storaenso.com/CDAvgn/showDocument/0,,1469,00.pdf .
Finish Rival UPM Kymmene has completed EMAS implementation in its Finnish
paper and pulp mills by adding the Tervasaari plant to the register (FIN-000048).
This means that all the UPM's 7 Finnish entities (9 sites) are EMAS registered,
and 10 out of 20 mills in the EU 25. The environmental profile can be
read here: http://w3.upm-kymmene.com/upm/internet/cms/upmcms.nsf/$all/C220125D8B95BBBBC2256EEB00433519?
OpenDocument&qm=menu,7,3,0&smtitle=Mills
Other paper manufacturers with multi site organisations registered for EMAS based in the EU are: Sappi (7 out of 8 EU sites), SCA M-Real (6/29) and Norske Skog (4/9).
05/09/04
Quality food manufacturers joined for EMAS Easy pilot project in France
Eco-Conseil will assist ARPE Midi-Pyrenees (Regional Environmental Development Agency) in the implementation of EMAS in 10 food manufacturing SMEs, using the EMAS SME Toolkit and group coaching as a base. Regulators will be included in training meetings. Shared documentation and local empowerment will be seen as two of the most important aspects in this project, thus reducing the time spent in trainings and writing handbooks. The main intention for the participants is to improve environmental performance and hereby improve competitiveness. EMAS Easy offers a simple and cost effective way to implement EMAS for SMEs and create capacity in the food manufacturing sector in the Midi-Pyrenees.
For more information contact Marcel Van Meersche at Eco-Conseil: mvmeesche@ecoconseilentreprise.be
14/07/03
The Doors open to Corporate Social Responsibility at Stora Enso Kabel Mill
In July Stora Enso gave the green light to the biomass
electrification of Kabel Mill in Hagen (Westphalia). Together with the
local electricity provider Mark-E, Euro 50 Mill. is being invested to
provide this Stora Enso plant with electricity and process steam from
214 000 tons of wood residue.
Still, the Kabel based subsidiary of the world’s second largest manufacturer
of cardboard and paper is striving for the highest standards in environmental
performance and Corporate Social Responsibility.
“ For more than 100 Years we feel obliged to our hometown Hagen. Owing
to the principle of sustainability Stora Enso Kabel Mill aims at a long lasting
partnership with clients, suppliers, the City of Hagen and the locals,” MD
Michael Kohlhaas comments explaining the objectives for CSR policy. The Westphalia
Museum, the Basketball youth teams of Brandt Hagen and the soup-kitchen for the
underprivileged, to name a few, enjoy the lasting partnership and commitment
of Stora Enso Kabel.
Every year the leading private business in town provides 16 apprentices in
5 categories with a job, recently creating the new branch for software engineering.
Students enjoy theses topics and internships, while Stora Enso Kabel Mill keeps
investing in quality of neighbors: Euros 1,75 Million invested in biofilters
for the waste water treatment plant had no other aim but to further reduce
olfactory harassment to an even lower level.
For further information please contact Katharina Becker at Stora Enso Kabel
Gmbh & Co KG (katharina.becker@storaenso.com)
or view http://www.storaenso.com/.
03/06/03
Surfing on the web wave
Pioneering is a natural attitude of an organisation that
wants to take the lead in its field of operations. Globally operating forest
products company Stora Enso is strongly flagging for comprehensive environmental
management systems and EMAS in its mills and units.
The possibility to enhance dialogue with stakeholders was one of the leading
ideas, when Stora Enso Timber decided to pioneer in web-based EMAS statements
in 2001. Statements were built as part of the Group's internet pages, allowing
surfing around the topics that are most interesting to the visitor. The project
also had a more practical rationale: to be able to streamline the publishing
process, language versions and updates, to combine additional information to
the statements, and to save costs by offering printed copies only to those
who want them.
Stora Enso Timber is one of the industry leaders in the globally operating
wood products business. The company has 22 sawmills in Europe, three new ones
being built, and more in planning phase. Stora Enso Timber has grown rapidly
through merges and acquisitions in five years. Environmental management systems
and consequently EMAS will be applied in all units during the coming years.
At Nordic sawmills the first EMAS statements were registered already some years
ago. Eight mills will now publish the annual updates with 2002 details added
to the 2001 web-statements in the internet. These are the first updates, also
approved as web-versions and pdf-files only, in accordance with the EMAS requirements.
The process of making web-statements is different from traditional printed
ones. The text, graphs, photos and structure of reports were carefully considered
to match the possibilities and requirements of the web as a communication channel.
The process was created together with Finnish and Swedish verifiers and authorities.
Please take a look at www.storaenso.com/emas/timber and
give feedback! For more information contact the Communications Manager, Terhi
Bergius, Terhi.Bergius@storaenso.com