R O L L A N D E N T E R P R IS E S IN C . A N C IE N T F O R E S T F R IE N D L Y F IB E R P R O C U R E M E N T POLICY
Effective: September 1 s t , 2015
Rolland Enterprises Inc. is committed to playing a leadership role in the pulp and paper industry and will work
with its wood fiber suppliers and Canopy in order to promote ecopaper development, sustainable forest
management, protection of endangered forests and responsible environmental practices.
Rolland Enterprises Inc. supports the production of pulp and papers with 30% to 100% post-consumer waste
content and wood fiber that is not sourced in endangered forests and Intact Forest Landscapes, such as the
intact forests of the Boreal.
The following principles apply to all paper produced by Rolland Enterprises Inc. This policy addresses the
entire paper lifecycle, and supports principles that result in long-term environmental, social and economic
benefits.
• Virgin Wood Fiber Sourcing
Rolland Enterprises Inc. recognizes the need to lead and encourage the adoption of environmentally and
socially responsible practices to ensure that virgin fiber used in the production of our papers is sourced
from well-managed forests, and that land use choices and management practices contribute to the
conservation of natural resources and environmental protection. Rolland Enterprises Inc. will influence our
virgin wood fiber suppliers to use environmentally responsible practices, and advance the following
principles:
Conservation of Endangered Forests, Intact Forest Landscapes and Protection of Biodiversity and
Ecosystems: Rolland Enterprises Inc. will:
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Assess our use of virgin fiber, and work to eliminate by 2018, sourcing from controversial endangered
species habitat and ancient and endangered forests areas such as the Canadian and Russian Boreal
Forests; Coastal Temperate Rainforests; tropical forests and peatlands of Indonesia, the Amazon and
West Africa. Rolland Enterprises Inc. will work with our pulp suppliers towards phasing out controversial
sources. We will only source FSC virgin fiber from these forest areas.
Work with Canopy and our suppliers to support collaborative and visionary solutions that protect
remaining ancient and endangered forests in the Coastal Temperate Rainforests of North America’s
Vancouver Island and Great Bear Rainforest, Canada’s Boreal Forests, and Indonesia’s Rainforests.
Forest Certification: Where virgin fiber is required, Rolland Enterprises Inc. will give purchasing
preference to fiber originating from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified operations. Further, Rolland
Enterprises Inc. will give preference to FSC certified virgin wood fibers not sourced in the Intact Boreal
Landscapes in papers produced in all of its mills. Rolland Enterprises Inc. holds a FSC chain of custody
certificate for all of its mills since 2005.
Illegal Logging: Rolland Enterprises Inc. is committed to working with its wood fiber suppliers and other
stakeholders to ensure that illegally sourced fibers are not used in the manufacture of Rolland
Enterprises Inc. papers.
• Paper Production
Recycled Content Use
Using recycled fiber can reduce overall pressure on forests and other important natural resources, especially
when fibers from post-consumer waste are used in paper production, therefore, Rolland Enterprises Inc. will:
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Continue to lead in the production of paper with high-recycled content and specifically post-consumer
and post-industrial waste content.
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Support regulation to improve infrastructure for the recovery of paper and fiber materials in which the
company operates. Such measures are essential for Rolland Enterprises Inc. to continue to increase the
recycled content of its papers.
Work to maximize the overall production and sales of 100% recycled content papers across all paper
grades manufactured by Rolland within 3-5 years.
Pollution Prevention
Paper manufacturing is a resource-intensive process that can lead to air and water emissions that impact
overall environmental quality. As such, Rolland Enterprises Inc. will:
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Use bleaching technologies that are chlorine free.
Purchase fiber only from suppliers that meet or exceed legal environmental performance requirements for
air and water pollution control.
Monitor and reduce overall emissions by adopting the latest technologies and practices to minimize
pollution.
Reduce Carbon Footprint
Recognizing the importance of forests as carbon storehouses, Rolland Enterprises Inc. will:
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Support initiatives that advance forest conservation to reduce the loss of high carbon value forests, by
encouraging suppliers to avoid harvest in these areas, and by giving preference to those that use
effective strategies to actively reduce their greenhouse gas footprint.
Maximize the use of other low carbon footprint fiber options such as recycled content and biogas energy.
Measure and report on carbon footprint for paper production.
Continue to lead on non-forest fiber derived from renewable energy technologies at all mills (e.g. wind,
biogas).
Increase energy efficiency at mills and report every 3-years on progress.
Explore other business areas where carbon reduction strategies can be implemented, including
improvements in basis weights of the papers produced.
• Increase Paper Efficiency
Rolland Enterprises Inc. is committed to improved efficiency in paper use, including efforts to reduce transit,
distribution, circulation, and miscellaneous waste. Rolland Enterprises Inc. will promote continuous
technical advances in paperweight reduction, and fiber use efficiency to minimize process waste.
• Alternative Fiber Development
With more than 50% of the forests logged in Canada going into pulp and paper products, diversifying the
paper fiber basket to include agricultural residues – otherwise burned or landfilled - is a guaranteed way to
alleviate some pressure off of our forest ecosystems. Rolland Enterprises Inc. will:
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Support Canopy to explore and encourage the development of agricultural residues and fibers as a
commercially viable fiber source for paper, and keep abreast of new developments and potential
opportunities in this area.
Will play an active role in the research and development and commercial scale production of pulp and
paper from alternative fiber sources where appropriate.
Recognizing, respecting and upholding human rights and the rights of
communities
Rolland Enterprises Inc. will request that our suppliers respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
and acknowledge indigenous and rural communities legal, customary or user rights to their territories, land,
and resources.viii To do so, we request that our suppliers acknowledge the right of Indigenous People and
rural communities to give or withhold their Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) before new logging
rights are allocated or plantations are developed. We request that our suppliers, resolve complaints and
conflicts, and remediate human rights violations through a transparent, accountable, and agreeable dispute
resolution process.
• Successful and Timely Implementation
Rolland Enterprises Inc. is committed to effective implementation of this policy by February 2018. To do so,
Rolland Enterprises Inc. will:
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Involve employees, suppliers, shareholders and customers in the implementation of its paper procurement
policy.
Report annually on the progress made in the implementation of this policy.
Work with current suppliers to encourage them to supply information so that their practices can be
compared to this policy.
Establish benchmarks, timelines, and accountability mechanisms to implement this policy, and to review
this process annually.
• Promoting Industry Leadership
Rolland Enterprises Inc. recognizes the benefit of creating environmental awareness among its customers,
employees, and peers. As implementation progresses Rolland Enterprises Inc. will:
o Track the post-consumer content of the paper and/or use the Ancient Forest Friendly logo where
appropriate.
o Incorporate its environmental commitment into web and electronic forums as appropriate and highlight
their leadership.
Signed by:
Normand Champagne, VP Sales & Marketing
Rolland Enterprises Inc.
256 JB Rolland West
St-Jérôme, QC J7Y 0L6
i
Endangered forests and ecosystems are forests harboring a rich array of biodiversity that have been heavily impacted by human activity; global
forest types that are naturally rare and threatened; forested wilderness areas, including those that are rich in species diversity, contain threatened
species, or provide critical ecosystem services; and old growth forests that have not previously been subject to commercial logging. For more
information on the definitions of ancient and endangered forests, please go to: http://canopyplanet.org/index.php?page=science-behind-the-brand
Key endangered forests globally are the Canadian and Russian Boreal Forests; Coastal Temperate Rainforests of British Columbia, Alaska and
Chile; Tropical forests and peat lands of Indonesia, the Amazon and West Africa.
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An Intact Forest Landscape (IFL) is an unbroken expanse of natural ecosystems within the zone of current forest extent, showing no signs of
significant human activity, and large enough that all native biodiversity, including viable populations of wide-ranging species, could be maintained.
http://www.intactforests.org
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Where conservation solutions are finalized we will consider sourcing from the Great Bear Rainforest, located in coastal temperate rainforests
that originally covered 0.2% of the planet, and where now less than 25% of the original forests remain. The 2006 Great Bear Rainforest
Agreements signed between environmentalists, logging companies, First Nations and the British Colombia Government includes the creation of a
new land management regime called Ecosystem-Based Management that includes more than 4.9 million acres (2 million hectares) protected from
logging and new lighter touch logging regulations applied outside of protected areas. All stakeholders have now agreed and efforts are underway
to have governments fully implement the agreement by 2015.
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Canada’s Boreal Forest contain the largest source of unfrozen freshwater worldwide and are part of the world’s largest terrestrial carbon sink –
equivalent to 26 years’ worth of global fossil fuel use. Canopy is committed to working collaboratively on the establishment of new protected areas,
the protection of endangered species and the implementation of sustainable harvesting in Canada’s Boreal Forest.
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Indonesia experiences the second highest rate of deforestation among tropical countries, with Sumatra Island standing out due to the intensive
forest clearing that has resulted in the conversion of 70% of the island's forested area (FAO Forest Assessment 2010; Margono, B.A. et al.
2012). Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd. (APRIL) have been identified as the primary cause and are
criticized by local and international groups for being implicated in deforesting important carbon rich peat lands, destroying the habitat for critically
endangered species and traditional lands of indigenous communities, corruption, and human rights abuses (Eyes on the Forest. 2011.
http://www.eyesontheforest.or.id/). APP has put in place a promising forest policy, tracking its implementation will be key to understanding if it
offers lasting solutions for Indonesia’s Rainforests.
vi
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is the only forest certification system broadly endorsed by environmental and social organizations
internationally. FSC is an independent, third party certification scheme that audits on-the-ground logging operations according to ten international
principles and criteria to ensure sustainable logging operations. FSC is the only international certification scheme that is recognized by Canopy
and other environmental groups as a measure of ecologically sustainable logging.
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Agricultural Residues are residues left over from food production or other processes and using them maximizes the lifecycle of the fiber.
Fibers used for paper products include cereal straws like wheat straw, rice straw, seed flax straw, corn stalks, sorghum stalks, sugar cane
bagasse, and rye seed grass straw. Where the LCA (life cycle analysis) shows environmental benefits and conversion of forestland to on
purpose crops is not an issue, kenaf can also be included here. (Agricultural residues are not from on purpose crops that replace forest stands
or food crops.)