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SIG sets up fund for tsunami victims in Asia January 2005. SIG plans to help the victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsu-nami in South East Asia with long-term relief projects. Quite apart from the 50,000 euros donated to UNICEF by SIG Combibloc Western Europe to provide immediate assistance, SIG has set up a special fund with a starting capital of 100,000 euros. Various SIG regional companies and business units want to participate by cancel-ling in-house events planned for this year and donating the money set aside for them to the fund. The local fund has been established in Thailand and will be han-dled by the management of the SIG company there. Its goal is to provide long-term support and schooling for tsunami-afflicted children in Thailand and Indonesia. As a global supplier of packaging material, systems and services for beverages and liquid food products, SIG has been active in Asia for more than 20 years. Since 1998 the Bangkok-based company SIG Combibloc Asia has been operating an ex-tremely modern production plant and technical customer services department in Rayong on the east coast of Thailand which was not directly hit by the tsunami. Branch offices in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea and Taiwan provide an all-round service for local customers. SIG Combibloc employs more than 360 people in Thailand. Social commitment is one of the company's maxims. "As an internationally active company, we believe it is our duty to support humanitarian projects. We are shocked by the fate of the people there, especially in view of the fact that SIG has offices all over Asia, and we are trying to help wherever we can," says the SIG management. To this end, SIG is also making beverage cartons available free of charge in various areas affected by the tsunami. The children's defender In 2003 SIG supported the UNICEF "school-in-a-box" project with 100,000 euros which Rolf-Dieter Rademacher, CEO of SIG, handed over to UNICEF ambassa-dor, the late Sir Peter Ustinov. This money was used to purchase teaching mate-rial for 26,400 children in Afghanistan. Since 1946 UNICEF has been working to help the children of the world. The United Nations Children's Fund is now active in 161 countries. The children's rights organisation bases its work on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which obliges the 191 member states to protect children, to promote their survival and development, to protect them from abuse and violence and to par-ticipate in important decisions. UNICEF acts as the children's defender to en-sure that children's rights are made known and actually put into practice in these countries. Download Media Release 050101 Your contact: Heike Thevis – Press Officer SIG Combibloc GmbH Rurstrasse 58, D-52441 Linnich, Germany Tel: +49 2462 79 2608 Fax: +49 2462 79 17 2608 E-mail: heike.thevis@sig.biz SIG Combibloc is one of the world's leading system suppliers of aseptic beverage cartons and filling machines. In 2003, the company recorded a turnover of EUR 1,058 million with around 3,900 employees. SIG Combibloc is a division of SIG Holding AG, Neuhausen am Rheinfall. News overview >> |
