RESPONSIBILITY STARTS HERE

At Paper Excellence, we believe we can accomplish greater things by working cooperatively, transparently and safely with others. This includes teaming up with employees and external groups that share some of our interests.

ETHICAL FIBRE SOURCES

All of our forest fibre comes from well-managed, sustainable North American and European Forests.

Forest fibre sources include sawmill waste chips and pulp logs.

We utilize globally recognized chain-of-custody standards.

LEADING MANUFACTURING

Our mills use ISO-14001 environmental management systems and best-available technology to minimize emissions.

PIONEERS

Early innovators in light-weight papers which provide more printable paper using the same raw materials.

Early adopters of elemental chlorine free (ECF) technologies for pulp manufacturing.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Mill safety programs to deliver improved employee safety.

Active outreach and partnerships with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS

FDA certification on select products.

SAGE carbon-neutral on select products.

BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS

Our new sustainability report, Building Strong Relationships, reviews 2021 and looks at both our achievements and our opportunities to do better. In particular, it highlights the work we did in building relationships with the Indigenous communities in whose traditional territories we operate and our corporate giving campaign which had a greatly increased budget in 2021.

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SUSTAINABLE FOREST BASED PRODUCTS

100% of our forest fibre is managed under our chain custody systems

44% of our power is self-generated green electricity; some of which is sold back to the North American grid

33% of our solid waste is beneficially reused

84% of our energy comes from green, renewable sources

We’ve reduced our carbon emissions footprint by 60% since 1990

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OUR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

We are committed to conducting business in a manner that protects the environment, conserves resources, reduces its environmental footprint and ensures sustainable development.

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SUSTAINABLE PARTNERSHIPS

We partner with organizations like Corporate Knights and Greenblue to enhance our commitment to sustainability — and to the natural world surrounding us. We also work hard to promote and improve the safe working conditions of our employees. Our relationships with local communities not only include ecological discussions but concerns around property taxation levels.

Catalyst has been a longtime supporter of GreenBlue, a nonprofit that equips business with the science and resources to make products more sustainable. GreenBlue’s Forest Products program includes the Forest Products Working Group, the Environmental Paper Assessment Tool and the Paper Life Cycle.

Since 1998, four of Paper Excellence’s coastal BC mills have been Great Bear Rainforest partners, working with other forest companies and Greenpeace, STAND (formerly ForestEthics), and Sierra Club of Canada. Over the past decade, 8,200 square miles of valuable forest lands have been permanently protected on BC’s central coast. At the same time, the initiative has developed a new approach to forest management and successfully implemented FSC forest management certification in the region. We’re proud of the Great Bear Rainforest and what the Ecosystem Based Management approach achieved in balancing its environmental integrity and social well-being.

PROTECTING THE GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST

Following controversial forest campaigns in the mid 1990s, four of Paper Excellence’s coastal BC mills have been working to protect the Great Bear Rainforest through parks and protected areas and the new forest practice called Ecosystem Based Management (EBM). This work aims to bring the Great Bear Rainforest into low ecological risk while balancing well-being of local communities created by forestry employment.

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Environmental Effects Monitoring (EEM)

Paper Excellence and Catalyst mills participate in the federal government’s Environmental Effects Monitoring (EEM) program, which focuses on the impacts of mill emissions to water. It involves a rolling cycle of study design, field testing, and reporting, providing important insights on the health of aquatic ecosystems and the effectiveness of regulatory protection.

Studies include precise assessments of how mill discharges affect the life cycles of fish and other marine species at all locations, and additional site-specific surveys and testing as local circumstances require. Community input has helped inform the content and scope of EEM studies.

Findings over five EEM cycles have shown improved marine conditions – such as a downward trend in dioxin and furan concentrations – which can often be linked to specific operational changes.

MILL EEM CYCLE DOCUMENTS

Attachment	Size
Crofton EEM Cycle 9	13.28 mb
Crofton EEM Cylce 7	4.67 mb
Crofton EEM Cycle 6	8.62 mb
Crofton EEM Cycle 5	8.85 mb
EEM Program – Recent Amendments, Presentation to Crofton Local Monitoring Committee 2009	12.98 kb

Attachment	Size
Port Alberni EEM Cycle 8	6.51 mb
Port Alberni EEM Cylce 7	9.04 mb
Port Alberni EEM Cycle 6	4.84 mb
Port Alberni EEM Cycle 5	4.72 mb
EEM Program – Recent Amendments, Presentation to Crofton Local Monitoring Committee 2009	12.98 kb

Attachment	Size
tiskwat EEM Cycle 7	7.57 mb
tiskwat EEM Cycle 6	3.26 mb
tiskwat EEM Cycle 5	95.84 kb
EEM Program – Recent Amendments, Presentation to Crofton Local Monitoring Committee 2009	12.98 kb

Attachment	Size
Skookumchuck Cycle 9	1.79 mb
Skookumchuck Cycle 8	1.44 mb
Skookumchuck Cycle 7	5.71 mb
Skookumchuck Cycle 6	3.45 mb
Skookumchuck Cycle 5	53.81 kb
Skookumchuck Cycle 4	4.61 mb
Skookumchuck Cycle 3	10.9 mb
Skookumchuck Cycle 2	85.81 kb
EEM Program – Recent Amendments, Presentation to Crofton Local Monitoring Committee 2009	12.98 kb

Attachment	Size
Howe Sound EEM Cycle 9 Interpretive Report	28.94 mb
Howe Sound EEM Cycle 8 Final Report	4.02 mb
Howe Sound EEM Cycle 7 Final Report	2.43 mb
Howe Sound EEM Cycle 6 Final ReportReport	11.84 mb
Howe Sound EEM Cycle 5 Final Report	12.81 mb
EEM Program – Recent Amendments, Presentation to Crofton Local Monitoring Committee 2009	12.98 kb