Supporting thriving forests

Our product-level goal: Continue to ensure all our cartons can carry the FSC™ label and help our customers effectively communicate about it.

We have led the industry in adopting and promoting FSC™ certification for aseptic cartons. We were the first aseptic carton producer to:

• Achieve FSC™ Chain of Custody certification at all our own operations, in 2009.

• Enable all customers to put the FSC™ label on any of our aseptic carton packs, in 2016.

• Purchase 100% of the liquid packaging board procured to produce our aseptic cartons with FSC™ certification, since 2021.

FSC™ certification enables the liquid packaging board we procure for our packs to be traced through the supply chain to sustainably managed forests. That means we ensure only acceptable and certified wood sources are used, so our packs are helping to keep existing forests thriving. It also gives consumers peace of mind that the products they are buying do not negatively impact forests. The certification focuses not only on preventing deforestation and degradation, but also respecting the rights of workers, local communities, and indigenous people. FSC's™ rigorous standards for responsible forest management require forest managers to maintain the continued existence of naturally occurring native species and genotypes, and prevent losses of biological diversity, particularly through habitat management in the forest.