soft & green - summer 2014 - issue 13
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Sofidel has started a partnership with the Jack & Jill Children’s foundation in the Republic of Ireland, through its Nicky brand.TRANSCRIPT
SUMMER 2014 number 13
THE NEWSLETTER OF SOFIDEL GROUP FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Sofidel has started a partnership with the Jack & Jill Children’s
foundation in the Republic of Ireland, through its Nicky brand.
The Jack & Jill Children’s foundation is a charity that provides
direct funding to families of children with brain damage. The
foundation provides support for children who suffer severe
intellectual and physical developmental delay, enabling them
to purchase home respite care and thus enabling the families
to purchase the “gift of time”, i.e., time to do the things that
we so often take for granted, like shopping, taking their other
children to the park, a night’s sleep etc. In 2014, Nicky will be
making a donation that guarantees 1250 hours of medical
assistance to families supported by Jack & Jill (over 100 hours
a month). The foundation has helped over 1700 families since
it was founded in 1997. Today, the foundation is providing
support for 300 families in Ireland.
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SOFIDEL FURTHER REDUCES ITS WATER CONSUMPTION
Sofidel continued its quest to reduce its water consumption in 2013.
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PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF WORK RELATED STRESS
Sofidel has signed up to OHSA’s two-year, “Healthy Workplaces Manage Stress” campaign.
SOFIDEL’S 2014 ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN DEDICATED TO THE LESS IS MORE PRINCIPLE
Sofidel’s 2014 campaign is dedicated to the principle of less is more, which sums up very well the overall concept of Sofidel’s work...
SOFIDEL & FRIENDS: OUR ANNUAL MEETING WITH CLIENTS IN AMSTERDAM
The third edition of Sofidel & Friends, the annual meeting that Sofidel holds with its clients, took place in Amsterdam on 20 May...
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SUPPORTING THE JACK AND JILL CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION
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PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF WORK RELATED STRESS
Sofidel has signed up to the two-year “Healthy Workplaces
Manage Stress” campaign launched by the European Agency
for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). The latest survey
carried out by EU-OSHA revealed that 51% of workers find
work-related stress to be common in their workplace and
4 in 10 workers think that stress is not handled well in their
organisation. The Campaign seeks to show how psychosocial
risks can be handled in the same systematic way as any other
occupational safety and health risk. “Healthy Workplaces
Manage Stress” will run for two years and will include
hundreds of organisations from across Europe, involving
a range of activities such as training sessions, conferences
and workshops, poster, film and photo competitions,
quizzes, suggestion schemes, advertising campaigns and
press conferences.
For more information visit www.healthy-workplaces.eu/it
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YOUNG MUSICIANS GROW IN EUROPEFor the second year running, Sofidel has helped the Enrico
Pea secondary school in Porcari – where the Group has its
Head Office – to organise a mini-tour abroad for the school’s
orchestra. Last year, the orchestra visited Nancy, in France
and this year it went to the German state of Saxony-Anhalt,
two places where Sofidel is present. The tour lasted six
days, from 30 March to 4 April, during which the students
visited Nuremburg, Stendal, Arneburg (including Delipapier
GmbH) and Berlin, with the orchestra giving two concerts;
one in Arneburg and the other in Gardelegen. It was a great
experience, especially considering the collaboration and
kindness shown by the local institutions. So, schools, boys
and girls, get ready, we are going international! This is yet
another way to build EUROPE.
In 2013, Sofidel consolidated its commitment to the responsible
sourcing of forest resources. The overall percentage of virgin
fibre obtained from certified or controlled sources (FSC,
PEFC, FSC-CW, SFI) was 99.6% compared to 99.8% in 2012.
Although this figure may appear to show a step in the wrong
direction, one must remember that the figure for 2013 now
includes data relating to Sofidel America, which, until its
takeover by Sofidel in the third quarter of 2012, did not have
any specific sustainability constraints. Sofidel extended
its sourcing policy to its American acquisition in 2013 and
guaranteed its US plant a 98.2% supply of certified fibre.
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SOFIDEL FURTHER REDUCES ITS WATER CONSUMPTION
FOREST RESOURCES: RESPONSIBLE
SOURCING EXTENDED
Sofidel continued its quest to reduce its water consumption
in 2013. The Group’s certified consumption figures stood
at 7.60 litres per kg of paper produced, compared to its
figures for 2012, which stood at 8.16 litres/kg. In terms of
the individual plants, the Mediterranean basin – an area well
known for drought – fared well. The Papyros plant in Greece
reduced its water consumption by 35%, with an estimated
annual saving of 80,000 m3 of water when fully operational.
The figures for the Ibertissue plant in Spain were also
significant, as consumption was reduced by 27%. Sofidel
included the reduction of water consumption as one of the
factors for rating its performance.
Sofidel America received an award
for sustainability and for using only
recycled packaging. The award was
given by Pratt Industries, based in
Conyers, Georgia. Pratt is the fifth
largest producer of carton packaging
in the United States and the largest
manufacturer of one hundred
percent recycled packaging. The
award is very much appreciated
because it comes from a partner
that shares the same commitment
to reducing its environmental
footprint.
SOFIDEL AMERICA RECEIVES SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
THE NEWSLETTER OF SOFIDEL GROUP FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTGREENSOFT&
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Managing Director: Lorenzo Azzi - [email protected] Editors: Sofidel SpA, Via di Lucia, 23 - 55016 – Porcari (Lu) – ITA - Tel. +39 0583 2681Registered in Lucca (Italy): n° 927 in 20-4-2011
Sofidel’s 2014 campaign is dedicated to the principle of less is more, which
sums up very well the overall concept of how much Sofidel has invested
to achieve maximum wellbeing and added value for its stakeholders, by
reducing its negative environmental and social impact to a minimum.
From production to research; development to marketing and sales;
innovation to the supply chain, purchasing to the environment – Sofidel
constantly seeks the most innovative solutions and maximum efficiency
to give “more” in terms of products, value and services, with “less” in
terms of, for example, energy or water consumption,
greenhouse gasses, price/cost and any other form
of negative impact. This is our way of drawing
inspiration from nature.
The third edition of Sofidel & Friends, the annual meeting
that Sofidel holds to share its objectives and commitments
with its clients, took place in Amsterdam on 20 May. Mario
Matteucci, Chief Marketing & Sales Officer of the Group,
chaired the event that outlined the three key objectives
that Sofidel is working on to help create added value at
all levels: organisation, innovation and sustainability. This
year’s event, organised as always in coordination with
PLMA, was held at the Explore site, a former gunpowder
plant in Muiden.
SOFIDEL’S 2014 ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN DEDICATED TO THE LESS
IS MORE PRINCIPLE
SOFIDEL & FRIENDS: OUR ANNUAL MEETING WITH CLIENTS IN AMSTERDAM
Follow us on: www.sofidel.it twitter @sofidelsharing
LESS ISMORE