Iggesund builds on its strong sustainability record

Iggesund Paperboard’s mills in Iggesund, Sweden and Workington, England have been awarded the highest rating for sustainability in an evaluation by EcoVadis.

EcoVadis provides a system for assessing and marking the suppliers of global companies and has evaluated more than 25,000 suppliers, with those using it including Coca Cola, Johnson and Johnson, Nestlé, L’Oreal and Heineken. “This is not the first confirmation that Iggesund Paperboard and its parent company, the Holmen Group, have a very strong sustainability programme,” said Johan Granas, sustainability communications manager at Iggesund. “Over time the issues raised have changed from being purely environmental ones to now encompassing the entire field of sustainability, including its financial and social dimensions.” In the last ten-years the Holmen Group has appeared on indexes of the world’s 100 most sustainable companies, drawn up by the UN’s Global Compact and the Corporate Knights. The Holmen Group has also been singled out several times as a leader in the work against climate change by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). “We believe that our customers, the brand owners and ourselves are all winners in this trend towards more openness regarding sustainability,” said Granas.