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Protecting natural resources Globally, the supply of fossil raw materials continues to dwindle. As a result, the use of renewable raw materials such as wood is becoming more and more important. With responsible forest management, wood can be a virtually inexhaustible raw material. Managing forests in a responsible way means maintaining their ecological, social and economic value on a sustained basis. At up to 75 per cent of the carton content, pulp fibre obtained from wood is the main component of aseptic carton packs. And this is what makes carton packs fundamentally different from all other types of packaging used for beverages and long-life foods. SIG Combibloc places great emphasis on ensuring that the wood fibres used to manufacture the unprocessed cardboard for its carton packs can be traced back to their source without interruption. To make certain that this can be done, SIG Combibloc requires all its suppliers of unprocessed cardboard to operate production facilities that are certified according to the FSC chain of custody (CoC) standard. This ensures that controversial wood sources can be avoided for the manufacture of the unprocessed cardboard, traceability of the wood fibres back to the forest of origin is guaranteed and only wood from controlled sources or ecologically responsible forest management is used. |
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