Sonoco expanded its fiber certification program into Brazil and Mexico in February 2016.
Although most of the raw material used in our mills is 100% recycled fiber, this certification also requires the company to select suppliers of virgin fiber and virgin fiber components that avoid trading or sourcing raw material that is:
– illegally harvested,
– harvested in violation of traditional and civil rights and
– harvested where global conservation priorities are threatened.
In Brazil, Sonoco’s paper mill in Londrina and rigid paper converting operation in Araras were both chain-of-custody certified to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC).
In Mexico, its Atizapan paper mill and Mexico City rigid paper converting operation were also chain-of-custody certified to the FSC and PEFC, plus the North American-based Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI).
These operations join the company’s 12 previously certified paper mills and four previously certified converting operations located in the US, Canada and Europe.
