Lenzing publishes sustainability report
10/04/2013
For the first time, the Austrian group has adhered to policies laid down by the Global Reporting Initiative – a non-profit organisation that promotes economic, environmental and social sustainability – and since November 2012 has committed itself to complying with environmental criteria based on international standards such as EU Ecolabel.
The report, Focus Sustainability – Taking Responsibility for Our Business, focuses on fibres, the core segment of the Lenzing Group which accounts for 90% of sales.
The company says it “intensified its efforts to systematise its internal sustainability work. The objective of these activities was to expand the list of key indicators for ecological, economic and social sustainability criteria in order to improve the transparency of reporting”.
The publication contains information from the value creation study, commissioned by Lenzing and carried out by Professor Friedrich Schneider from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, which concluded that Lenzing’s operations over its seven production sites in 2011 increased GDP by more than EUR 930 million and that the company secured or created more than 8,000 additional jobs, besides those within the Lenzing Group itself.
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