Environmental Report Contents MoDo Environmental 1 Environmental policy 2 Bengt Pettersson President and CEO Report 1996 Products and marketing The facts in the MoDo Environmental Report 1996 are based on a selection from the large amount of information reported to the 3 Products for the ecocycle environmental authorities. Copies of the complete reports sub- mitted by our Swedish units are held available at the authorities Environmental protection and at MoDo’s offices. Environmental facts on the units outside 4 MoDo and the Environment 1996 Sweden are available from MoDo. 6 Many factors influence environmental standard This is how the environmental report is arranged MoDo Environmental Report is designed to make complex 7 Reporting of environmental expenditure conditions as easy to understand as possible for a broad range of 9 MoDo Paper readers. The Environmental Report is arranged in accordance with the headings in MoDo’s environmental policy. 12 Holmen Paper In order to make it easier to read, the same colour codes are 14 Iggesund Paperboard used throughout all sections: 16 Iggesund Timber • Raw material consumption 17 MoDo Skog • Energy consumption 22 Environmental auditing • Production Responsibility • Emissions into air • Emissions into water 22 Environmental organisation • Waste Purchasing and demands on suppliers Reporting of environmental facts 24 Study of environmental effects of In 1996, MoDo began to co-operate with the other Swedish transportation companies in the industry to standardise the reporting of environmental facts. Development The section entitled Environmental protection in 1996 includes 28 Higher production – improved environmental data for each mill, showing production, quantity of waste and performance environmental permits, and emissions into water and air. The environmental data are the facts that determine the extent of the 29 Priorities for the future measures taken to improve the environment; they also serve as a basis for a general assessment of the environmental status. MoDo in 1996 – the facts At the end of the Environmental Report there is a fact section containing detailed information on raw materials, production, 30 MoDo and energy energy consumption, total emissions into air and water, 31 MoDo – an overall picture emissions per tonne of product, and waste for 1995 and 1996. Figures in brackets refer to 1995. 32 MoDo – mill by mill. Use of raw materials, production, emissions and waste Further information Further information may be obtained by contacting the offices 40 Chemicals and persons listed at the end of the Environmental Report. 41 By-products and waste Information Cover 42 Glossary Environmental workers. The environment is the concern of each of MoDo’s employees in one way or another. Tommy 44 This is MoDo – addresses Andersson and Jan Eriksson, MoDo Skog, Hallstavik; Kerstin Bergroth, Iggesunds Bruk; and Sven-Olof Westberg, Husum, are just a few of them. Environmental policy The environment is the concern of the entire Group. being given to the needs of the environment. Forestry It is essential for the development of MoDo that full will be practised in such a way as to protect vital account is taken of environmental constraints. ecological processes. The methods used must ensure biological diversity. Environmental protection MoDo’s business operations shall be managed in a Products manner which ensures the protection of the environ- Our products shall be harmless to humans and to the ment, the efficient use of raw materials and energy, environment. Functional and environmental demands and the promotion of sustainable development. Our shall be considered in an overall perspective. work in this sphere will be guided by a careful assess- MoDo shall allow the needs of the market to ment of technical feasibility, economic viability and determine product development. ecological acceptability. This means that our environ- mental protection measures will be characterised by a holistic approach and will be pursued with the aim Marketing of achieving continuous improvements. In order to Marketing with the use of environmental arguments guarantee sound environmental standards, environ- shall be factual and based on a comprehensive mental audits are performed at the individual units approach. within MoDo. In order to ensure our freedom of action, our aim shall be to comply with environmental legislation and Development official standards by a safe margin. MoDo shall have a long-term environmental strategy, Environmental measures involve costs. Effective and keep abreast of the development of environ- environmental protection requires healthy profit- mental requirements within its areas of operation. In ability. This in turn calls for products which are connection with investments in new plants, and the competitive on international markets. modernisation and rebuilding of existing plants, all opportunities shall be taken to combine efficient Responsibility production with effective environmental protection. Overall responsibility for the environment is shared Methods, processes and products which cause a by Group management and business area presidents reduced impact on the environment shall be given together with the Group Board. The primary responsi- priority over other comparable alternatives. bility for day-to-day environmental activities rests on The results of research and development shall be the managers of our mills and the corresponding used so that measures to protect the environment may managers of other units. be applied to the greatest possible effect. When major decisions which influence MoDo’s MoDo shall keep itself fully informed about the business are to be made on the environment, the mill environmental impact of the Group’s operations, and manager or the corresponding manager shall confer on measures required to reduce unwanted environ- with the Group’s Environmental Director. mental effects. MoDo shall continue to contribute The allotment of responsibility at each of MoDo’s towards the development of environmental improve- units shall be clearly defined in writing. Our personnel ments, through its own research and by participating shall exhibit a personal sense of responsibility for the in joint projects. environment in the course of their normal duties, and follow instructions and procedures. Purchasing and demands on suppliers Any risk of breakdowns or disturbances which could influence the environment shall be reported, so Environmental considerations shall be taken into that preventive action may be taken. In the event of account in connection with the purchase of goods and serious disturbances or breakdowns that could harm services. MoDo’s environmental requirements shall the environment, the environment shall be given be satisfied by suppliers. priority over production. Information Forestry Our approach shall be characterised by openness and MoDo’s forests and forestry activities will be objectivity. Our personnel, customers and other rele- managed to ensure a high yield and a sustainable vant parties shall be kept comprehensively informed supply of wood, subject to the fullest consideration on environmental matters. Revised in January 1997 1 Bengt Pettersson, President and Chief Executive Officer: Natural to report on environmental activities The environmental report has borating with other companies in the a value, but it is impossible to calculate come to stay. Providing share- forest industry to bring more uniformity this value in financial terms. to the reporting of environmental facts. We are therefore not yet ready to holders and the public with a We have not changed last year’s deci- describe the financial effects of environ- report on the company’s environ- sion to refrain from external auditing of mental issues. But we believe it will mental activities today seems the environmental report, pending the stimulate further development when we natural. official authorisation of environmental feel our way ahead with an open mind. auditors. We also illustrate the environmental This year’s environmental report inclu- aspects of transportation. We describe In this, our fifth environmental report, des some ideas as to how environmental two cases based on the transport study in our aim is to expand and clarify the measures should be reported in financial progress at MoDo. Our aim is that the reporting of environmental issues. Our terms. This is difficult, not least when it study should provide the facts needed for ambition is to make the report as easy to comes to putting a value on the environ- measures that will make it possible to read and understand as possible, despite mental measures built into the process reduce the environmental effects of trans- the many facts. For sake of continuity, we equipment. This area is very much a porting raw materials and products. have retained the established structure matter of estimates. Therefore, this year MoDo purchases most of its transpor- and at the same time paid special atten- we have divided MoDo’s environmental tation services on the open market. MoDo tion to the graphic design. investments into two types. As before, we will make environmental demands when Developments within the field of envi- state the total cost of all environmental purchasing transport services, just as our ronmental reporting occur quickly and investments, butwe also indicate the cost customers make environmental demands there are many views on what an environ- of those environmental measures that are on the products we manufacture. mental report should contain.