SUMMER 2014 number 13

THE NEWSLETTER OF SOFIDEL GROUP FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Sofidel has started a partnership with the Jack & Jill Children’s

foundation in the Republic of Ireland, through its Nicky brand.

The Jack & Jill Children’s foundation is a charity that provides

direct funding to families of children with brain damage. The

foundation provides support for children who suffer severe

intellectual and physical developmental delay, enabling them

to purchase home respite care and thus enabling the families

to purchase the “gift of time”, i.e., time to do the things that

we so often take for granted, like shopping, taking their other

children to the park, a night’s sleep etc. In 2014, Nicky will be

making a donation that guarantees 1250 hours of medical

assistance to families supported by Jack & Jill (over 100 hours

a month). The foundation has helped over 1700 families since

it was founded in 1997. Today, the foundation is providing

support for 300 families in Ireland.

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SOFIDEL FURTHER REDUCES ITS WATER CONSUMPTION

Sofidel continued its quest to reduce its water consumption in 2013.

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PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF WORK RELATED STRESS

Sofidel has signed up to OHSA’s two-year, “Healthy Workplaces Manage Stress” campaign.

SOFIDEL’S 2014 ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN DEDICATED TO THE LESS IS MORE PRINCIPLE

Sofidel’s 2014 campaign is dedicated to the principle of less is more, which sums up very well the overall concept of Sofidel’s work...

SOFIDEL & FRIENDS: OUR ANNUAL MEETING WITH CLIENTS IN AMSTERDAM

The third edition of Sofidel & Friends, the annual meeting that Sofidel holds with its clients, took place in Amsterdam on 20 May...

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SUPPORTING THE JACK AND JILL CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION

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PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF WORK RELATED STRESS

Sofidel has signed up to the two-year “Healthy Workplaces

Manage Stress” campaign launched by the European Agency

for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). The latest survey

carried out by EU-OSHA revealed that 51% of workers find

work-related stress to be common in their workplace and

4 in 10 workers think that stress is not handled well in their

organisation. The Campaign seeks to show how psychosocial

risks can be handled in the same systematic way as any other

occupational safety and health risk. “Healthy Workplaces

Manage Stress” will run for two years and will include

hundreds of organisations from across Europe, involving

a range of activities such as training sessions, conferences

and workshops, poster, film and photo competitions,

quizzes, suggestion schemes, advertising campaigns and

press conferences.

For more information visit www.healthy-workplaces.eu/it

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YOUNG MUSICIANS GROW IN EUROPEFor the second year running, Sofidel has helped the Enrico

Pea secondary school in Porcari – where the Group has its

Head Office – to organise a mini-tour abroad for the school’s

orchestra. Last year, the orchestra visited Nancy, in France

and this year it went to the German state of Saxony-Anhalt,

two places where Sofidel is present. The tour lasted six

days, from 30 March to 4 April, during which the students

visited Nuremburg, Stendal, Arneburg (including Delipapier

GmbH) and Berlin, with the orchestra giving two concerts;

one in Arneburg and the other in Gardelegen. It was a great

experience, especially considering the collaboration and

kindness shown by the local institutions. So, schools, boys

and girls, get ready, we are going international! This is yet

another way to build EUROPE.

In 2013, Sofidel consolidated its commitment to the responsible

sourcing of forest resources. The overall percentage of virgin

fibre obtained from certified or controlled sources (FSC,

PEFC, FSC-CW, SFI) was 99.6% compared to 99.8% in 2012.

Although this figure may appear to show a step in the wrong

direction, one must remember that the figure for 2013 now

includes data relating to Sofidel America, which, until its

takeover by Sofidel in the third quarter of 2012, did not have

any specific sustainability constraints. Sofidel extended

its sourcing policy to its American acquisition in 2013 and

guaranteed its US plant a 98.2% supply of certified fibre.

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SOFIDEL FURTHER REDUCES ITS WATER CONSUMPTION

FOREST RESOURCES: RESPONSIBLE

SOURCING EXTENDED

Sofidel continued its quest to reduce its water consumption

in 2013. The Group’s certified consumption figures stood

at 7.60 litres per kg of paper produced, compared to its

figures for 2012, which stood at 8.16 litres/kg. In terms of

the individual plants, the Mediterranean basin – an area well

known for drought – fared well. The Papyros plant in Greece

reduced its water consumption by 35%, with an estimated

annual saving of 80,000 m3 of water when fully operational.

The figures for the Ibertissue plant in Spain were also

significant, as consumption was reduced by 27%. Sofidel

included the reduction of water consumption as one of the

factors for rating its performance.

Sofidel America received an award

for sustainability and for using only

recycled packaging. The award was

given by Pratt Industries, based in

Conyers, Georgia. Pratt is the fifth

largest producer of carton packaging

in the United States and the largest

manufacturer of one hundred

percent recycled packaging. The

award is very much appreciated

because it comes from a partner

that shares the same commitment

to reducing its environmental

footprint.

SOFIDEL AMERICA RECEIVES SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

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Managing Director: Lorenzo Azzi - lorenzo.azzi@sofidel.it Editors: Sofidel SpA, Via di Lucia, 23 - 55016 – Porcari (Lu) – ITA - Tel. +39 0583 2681Registered in Lucca (Italy): n° 927 in 20-4-2011

Sofidel’s 2014 campaign is dedicated to the principle of less is more, which

sums up very well the overall concept of how much Sofidel has invested

to achieve maximum wellbeing and added value for its stakeholders, by

reducing its negative environmental and social impact to a minimum.

From production to research; development to marketing and sales;

innovation to the supply chain, purchasing to the environment – Sofidel

constantly seeks the most innovative solutions and maximum efficiency

to give “more” in terms of products, value and services, with “less” in

terms of, for example, energy or water consumption,

greenhouse gasses, price/cost and any other form

of negative impact. This is our way of drawing

inspiration from nature.

The third edition of Sofidel & Friends, the annual meeting

that Sofidel holds to share its objectives and commitments

with its clients, took place in Amsterdam on 20 May. Mario

Matteucci, Chief Marketing & Sales Officer of the Group,

chaired the event that outlined the three key objectives

that Sofidel is working on to help create added value at

all levels: organisation, innovation and sustainability. This

year’s event, organised as always in coordination with

PLMA, was held at the Explore site, a former gunpowder

plant in Muiden.

SOFIDEL’S 2014 ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN DEDICATED TO THE LESS

IS MORE PRINCIPLE

SOFIDEL & FRIENDS: OUR ANNUAL MEETING WITH CLIENTS IN AMSTERDAM

Follow us on: www.sofidel.it twitter @sofidelsharing

LESS ISMORE