Iggesund Paperboard mills, in Iggesund, Sweden and Workington, England, have been awarded the highest rating for sustainability in an evaluation done by the EcoVadis firm of analysts. EcoVadis provides the leading system for assessing and marking the suppliers of global companies and has evaluated more than 25,000 suppliers. Companies using EcoVadis include Coca Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, L’Oréal and Heineken.
“This is not the first confirmation that Iggesund Paperboard and its parent company, the Holmen Group, have a very strong sustainability programme,” comments Johan Granås, Sustainability Communications Manager at Iggesund. “Over time the issues raised have changed from being purely environmental ones to now encompassing the entire field of sustainability, including its financial and social dimensions.”
In the last ten-year period the Holmen Group has appeared on indexes of the world’s 100 most sustainable companies, drawn up by both the UN’s Global Compact and the Corporate Knights. The Holmen Group has also been singled out several times as a leader in the work against climate change by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). “We believe that our customers, the brand owners and ourselves are all winners in this trend towards more openness regarding sustainability,” Granås emphasises. “And of course, it’s very pleasing to see we’re already ranked so highly.”
