by Joshua Martin | Mar 22, 2023 | Responsible Virgin Fibre, Social Responsibilty, Transparency and Integrity
In November 2021, the relatively small and privately owned company, Paper Excellence, acquired Domtar, a major, publicly-traded North American uncoated freesheet paper and packaging producer that today has 11 pulp and paper mills and 9 manufacturing and converting...
by Joshua Martin | Aug 3, 2022 | Media Release, Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Responsible Virgin Fibre, Social Responsibilty, Transparency and Integrity
9 years after their highly publicized Forest Conservation Policy was announced, monitoring by Indonesian and international NGOs finds Asia Pulp and Paper is failing to keep its promises, damaging the climate and harming local communities in Indonesia. EPN-North...
by Luisa Colasimone | Jul 4, 2022 | Social Responsibilty, South America, Transparency and Integrity
Several Indigenous communities, who had reclaimed their ancestral lands taken away by companies, have recently been targeted by armed fazendeiros (agrarian latifundists) mobs in different regions of Brazil. The official recognition of these areas as Indigenous land...
by Sergio Baffoni | Dec 13, 2021 | Media Release, Pulp Finance, Transparency and Integrity
Civil society groups warn that material risks to financial institutions haven’t been disclosed New analyses released today by a coalition of civil society organizations reveal significant material risk to banks and investors exposed to two of the world’s largest pulp...
by Sergio Baffoni | Jul 29, 2021 | Media Release, Responsible Virgin Fibre, Social Responsibilty, Transparency and Integrity
For the pulp and paper industry, it is the take-over of the decade. Domtar shareholders decided today to sell their shares to Paper Excellence and delivered the major North American uncoated freesheet paper producer (with 21 manufacturing facilities around the world,...