SFI 2008 Annual Conference:
Sponsors at a Glance
Minnesota SFI Implementation Committee
Platinum Sponsor
The Minnesota SFI Implementation Committee works to promote the SFI program throughout Minnesota. In 2008, the committee formed a first-of-its-kind partnership with Habitat for Humanity to build a home made with wood products from SFI program participants. The Minnesota team won the 10th annual SFI Implementation Committee Achievement Award at the 2008 SFI Conference, the third time it has received the award.
FII Market Outreach
Go Zero Sponsor
Forestry Innovation Investment (FII) is an agency of the Government of British Columbia. Its Market Outreach program delivers the facts about British Columbia’s forests to international customers, and works with organizations, companies and governments to promote sustainable forest management and support the adoption of responsible and effective forest product buying strategies.
Forest Capital Partners
Gold Sponsor
Forest Capital Partners is a private landowner, financial manager and steward of large-scale working forests throughout North America. The company applies advanced technologies and discipline to practice sustainable forestry and create innovative ways to derive value from forests – ways that serve changing market needs while protecting the environment. The Minnesota division of Forest Capital Partners won the 2008 SFI-Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation Wildlife Stewardship Award.
National Envelope
Gold Sponsor
National Envelope is the largest envelope company in the world. With coast-to-coast manufacturing facilities that use the most technologically advanced folding, printing, and prepress equipment, National offers its customers unparalleled product selection and service. In 2008, National Envelope won an SFI President’s award for promoting its SFI certification in its marketing materials.
xpedx
Gold Sponsor
xpedx is North America’s largest distributor of printing papers, graphics, packaging, and facility supplies and equipment. It is one of the largest providers of post-consumer waste content and recycled printing papers in North America and is certified to the SFI, PEFC and FSC chain-of-custody standards.
KPMG Performance Registrar Inc.
Silver Sponsor
KPMG Performance Registrar Inc. (KPMG PRI) is one of the leading SFI verifiers in North America and has extensive experience assisting forest companies involved in woodlands management and pulp and paper, as well as solid wood manufacturing and remanufacturing. KPMG PRI provides services to meet the requirements of standards including SFI and PEFC chain of custody, ISO 14001, ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001, CSA, SFI certification and FSC certification (through KPMG Forest Certification Services Inc.)
American Tree Farm System
Silver Sponsor
The American Tree Farm System® (ATFS) is endorsed by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC) so wood harvested from ATFS-certified lands can be included in SFI and PEFC chain-of-custody systems. ATFS currently certifies the land management of more than 90,000 landowners who collectively own over 24 million acres (9.7 million hectares).
NSF International Strategic Registrations
Silver Sponsor
NSF International, a global leader in management systems registrations, provides SFI certification and chain-of-custody certification, and is a pioneer in joint SFI-FSC certification audits. NSF is a leading registrar for ISO 14001 and ISO 9000 for the pulp, paper and wood products industry, and has completed SFI certifications and ISO 14001 registrations at some of the largest wood products facilities in North America.
NewPage Corporation
Silver Sponsor
NewPage Corporation is the largest coated paper manufacturer in North America, based on a total annual production capacity of approximately 4.5 million tons of paper produced. The company partners with customers to deliver environmentally responsible solutions, and supports sustainable forestry by manufacturing papers in mills that have been certified by leading industry organizations, including SFI, FSC and PEFC.
Bureau Veritas Certification and Training
Silver Sponsor
Bureau Veritas Certification and Training has partnered with some of the world’s leading organizations offering a full range of quality, environmental, health & safety, social and security related auditing, training, verification and certification business services including: SFI 2005-2009, FSC, PEFC, chain of custody, ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 and many others.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Silver Sponsor
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Forest, Paper & Packaging Practice comprises a network of 1,400 industry professionals located in over 20 countries. It provides advisory and assurance services relating to non-financial areas of organizational performance and risk (i.e., environmental, health & safety, and social performance). PwC is an accredited registrar for ISO 14001, ISO 9001, SFI, PEFC and CSA Z809, and has developed an independent chain-of-custody standard.
QMI - SAI Global
Silver Sponsor
QMI-SAI Global helps organizations manage risk, achieve certification and drive improvement by providing training, registration audits and supplier management programs that can improve business performance. With more than 800 auditors and 24,000 registrations worldwide, it is a global leader committed to exceptional customer service and advancing business excellence.
Unisource Worldwide Inc.
Silver Sponsor
Unisource Worldwide Inc. is one of the leading independent marketers and distributors of commercial printing and business imaging papers, packaging systems and facility supplies and equipment in North America. Unisource offers its customers a full line of products meeting SFI, FSC and PEFC chain-of-custody standards.
Weyerhaeuser Company
Silver Sponsor
Weyerhaeuser, one of the world’s largest forest products companies, is principally engaged in the growing and harvesting of timber, the manufacture, distribution and sale of forest products; and real estate construction, development and related activities. All of Weyerhaeuser’s North American timberlands are independently certified as meeting the SFI or CSA Sustainable Forest Management Standard.