James Cropper supports #FSCFriday 2020
Celebrating Forests for All Together on FSC® Friday 2020
James Cropper support and promote this excellent initiative.
RESPONSIBLE FIBRE SOURCING - At James Cropper we know a key strand of the circular economy is the regeneration of natural systems. Wood pulp is our primary raw material used by our paper making and COLOURFORM™ divisions with recovered material from CupCycling™ making a significant contribution.
Our commitment is not only to using renewable materials and low impact manufacturing processes, but also creating high quality products that are easier to recycle. We have access to an unrivalled portfolio of fibres and use our experience to select the right raw materials for your project.
James Cropper source wood pulp from responsibly managed forestry, certified to FSC® and PEFC® standards.
‘It is important that in this ever changing world, that our drive towards sustainability is underpinned by the right strategies and decisions, and it is with this in mind that James Cropper believes the right balance is maintained between the utilisation of fully certified virgin wood fibre and reclaimed fibre sources. Our Product Portfolio offers choices that are designed to drive us towards our goals of an equal balance, ensuring selections of fully certified FSC® Mix and FSC® Recycled options to support the sustainability of our planet, and the needs of our clients’Adrian Dolan, Director of Product Management James Cropper Paper
SUSTAINABLE FIBRE INNOVATION
We use our experience to select the right raw materials for your project. We call this developing your ‘grade’, this is usually a blend of fibres to match the product requirement.
From harvest site and pulp mill, to end product, we employ effective fibre traceability procedures which provide assurance of the legality of wood, biodiversity and sustainable land use practices throughout. Today European forests stand 30% larger in area than they did in the 1950s!
A key solution to climate change, resides in forests:
- Natural climate solutions vital to any carbon-reduction effort
European forests and forest-based products remove a net of 806 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents annually. This corresponds to 20% of all fossil emissions in the European Union
How does this happen?
CO2 is removed from the atmosphere in very large quantities and stored in growing forests in photosynthesis. While part of this carbon dioxide eventually circulates back to the atmosphere, another part of this carbon remains within the materials (cellulose, fibre, wood, etc..)
As this material is used (and recycled) to produce forest-based products, CO2 remains stored within it for a longer period of time before re-entering the natural biogenic carbon cycle. Furthermore forest-based products have a very low carbon footprint – for instance in packaging, paperboard is half the carbon footprint of that of plastics and the difference in favour of paperboard is increasing – and they replace fossil-intensive products.
Forest-based industries are undoubtedly one of the green and resilient European industrial ecosystems that can help build the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy by 2050.
We look forward to discussing your requirements.
Certified forests: a vital solution to climate change
FSC® Standards protect Indigenous rights, and when it comes to climate change, they see this as an impactful measure that helps mitigate global warming by maintaining or increasing carbon sequestration.
