On February 5th, 2012, Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) announced an end to the clearing of natural forest across its entire supply chain in Indonesia, with immediate effect. From February 1st, all of APP’s suppliers have suspended natural forest clearance whilst independent assessments take place to identify areas of high conservation value that will …
Legality & Deforestation Stories
On June 5th, 2012, Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) announced its Sustainability Roadmap for the next decade and beyond. The Sustainability Roadmap extends APP’s commitments on further improving environmental performance, biodiversity conservation and protection of community rights. With the first three months of preliminary HCV assessments now complete, APP is able to deliver the …
A global framework for wood legality and traceability starts with understanding SVLK, the foundation of Indonesia’s wood legality and chain of custody (CoC) certification program. SVLK covers all aspects of the wood based company’s supply chain – company’s licensing, traceability system, and legal trading (transporting & exporting) – to ensure wood products exported from the country are legal and traceable to verified points of origin. Since SVLK is the Government of Indonesia’s mandatory program, then APP and all other companies working with wood-based products have to comply with the SVLK regulations.
Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) is supporting Indonesia’s new mandate to end illegal logging and protect the nation’s forests. The new regulation demands that all of the nation’s production forests be managed sustainably. The nation’s commitment has already attracted support from Europe.
Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) embraces third-party certifications that protect both the environment and consumers. The company’s mills use of globally recognized certifications like ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 have become a vehicle to produce products that achieve a variety of other certification standards.
