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Page 1 Sustainability Report 2018 T H I N K I N G C R E a T I N G THINKING CREATING MAKING GROWING Sustainability Report 2018 Welcome to our We’d like to show you how we are working with others, Sustainability Report for others. How we share our value as we grow together, think new, make change and create better for all. THINKING CREATING MAKING GROWING 12 34 THINKING NEW MAKING CHANGE How our ability to think in new How we adapt and change SHARED VALUE ways is key to our innovation to stay future focused 20 48 CREATING BETTER GROWING TOGETHER How we build on our strengths How it takes trusted partnership to create better outcomes to grow and improve 3 Sustainability Report 2018 OJI FIBRE SOLUTIONS AT A GLANCE About 2018 highlights Oji Fibre Solutions We are a company with in supermarkets, keeping primary fresh ideas and optimism, produce fresh, the paper bag or boxes in which your products arrive built on a strong heritage, or the products that contain our pulp WE ARE A and are proud to adopt such as coffee filters, tissues, nappies OUR INVESTMENTS ENERGY GENERATION OUR EMPLOYEES or cellulose fibre cement boards. SPECIALIST IN... our parent company’s We have a long-standing presence in Transformation We are NZ’s largest producer We employ a total forward-thinking principles regional New Zealand and a growing of bio-renewable energy of 1,846 people of quality, innovation and presence in Australia. After being Tasman Mill MARKET PULP purchased by the Oji Group in 2014, We produce kraft sustainability. the company has benefitted from market pulps for use in the injection of new energy and We employ more than 1,840 people, various boards, tissues investment and is proud to be who work together to produce Purchase 82% 17% and specialty products. backed by the strength of the 314,615,501 New Zealand Australia quality kraft pulp, paper and fibre world’s fifth largest pulp, paper 130 ha radiata packaging products from renewable, kWh generated and packaging business. pine plantation at CONTAINERBOARD sustainably harvested forestry and 2018 we marked 145 years since the 1% We produce kraft recycled wood fibre. Stoneleigh Forest Oji Group was founded. Looking to 2018 energy sources China, Hong Kong, and recycled Oji Fibre Solutions is firmly part of the future, the company strives for Malaysia containerboards to Manufacturing operations: the circular economy. Trees are a the “Creation of Innovative Value” to be converted into natural, renewable resource that make a positive “Contribution to the packaging products. Launch can be used efficiently to make Future of the World” and to act in 78.6% 72.4% environmentally sustainable products “Harmony with Nature and Society”. Bearing360 Renewable Energy from 22 231 of high strength and quality. PACKAGING At Oji Fibre Solutions, we aspire to energy biomass new graduates permanent We provide smart You have most likely been touched the same ideals. and apprentices new starters packaging solutions by one of our products. It might be such as boxes, multi- the cardboard boxes that you see 6.2% wall bags, specialty Energy from 40% 11% boards and paper cups. geothermal steam employees of our senior with 10 years+ managers are PAPER RECYCLING service with women Fullcircle collects waste 2018 PRODUCTION Kinleith and Tasman the company paper throughout Mills generate close to New Zealand for HEALTH AND SAFETY half of their electricity transformation into new requirements internally products at our mills. 0 1.74 Product Safety Total Injury Rate LOGISTICS Incidents (34% on Lodestar provides 2017 results) shipping and domestic MARKET PULP CONTAINERBOARD transport solutions to deliver products to global markets. 530,577 375,138 RECYCLING Tonnes Tonnes We are NZ’s largest DESIGN AWARDS paper recycler CUSTOMER FIRST Packaging Innovation Putting customers first and Design Awards enables us to provide 260,305 190,298 COMMUNITY for My FurBaby integrated services and tonnes tonnes meet their needs for recovered fibre recovered quality solutions. 12 Our Yatala facility achieved collected fibre used in Projects provided Best in Design in the by Fullcircle our mills long-term support CHEMICALS & PACKAGING Food & Beverage Awards BY PRODUCTS PRODUCTS 33,944 214,285 Tonnes Tonnes Oji Fibre Solutions 5 Sustainability Report 2018 CORPORATE OVERVIEW From From our CEO our Chairman Dr Jon Ryder Hiroyuki Isono Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Director and Chairman Oji Fibre Solutions Oji Fibre Solutions 2018 was another busy world-class K25TM fibre cement Oji Fibre Solutions is a This year, we hosted Japanese, Sustainability is pulp and unbleached kraft pulp. We are New Zealand and Australian integrated within year on our journey Combined, these projects secure strengthening strong, integrated fibre dignitaries in association with to become a more a more sustainable future for the solutions business that trade visits, and for the Tasman Mill our business. sustainable business. Tasman Mill and the local community. and reinforcing benefits from Oji Holding evaporator launch and at the opening Focusing on the future, we made event for the Yatala packaging the business. facility. It was a pleasure to bring Our primary focus, as always, is the strategic decision to expand Corporation ownership. these parties together, and we look health and safety. This year we made our forestry ownership with the In 2018, Oji Holdings celebrated forward to further collaboration. significant investment in our health purchase of Stoneleigh Forest. 145 years since the company was and safety framework, processes, This will provide a sustainable and As a producer of a globally-traded founded. It is now one of the largest plant and equipment to make things secure source of pulp-log fibre product, over the last 18 months companies in the global pulp, paper safer. I am exceptionally proud of the close to our milling operations in Oji Fibre Solutions has faced market and packaging sector. It has the inroads we have made in reducing New Zealand. We are working with headwinds. Competitive pressure management philosophy of acting total injuries, process safety the Overseas Investment Office across the pulp, paper and fibre in harmony with nature and society, incidents and notifiable incidents. regarding future investments. packaging industry globally has creating innovative value and intensified following changes to Other highlights of 2018 include Looking externally, we also grew contributing toward a new future. China’s domestic waste management celebrating the successful our partnerships. As a member of Oji Fibre Solutions embodies this policy and volatility in trade terms installation of a new evaporator the Climate Leaders Coalition, we philosophy in the values of being between China and the United States. system at the Tasman Mill in actively support New Zealand’s innovative, built on strength, future New Zealand and formally opening transition to a low-carbon economy. Despite these challenges, I am focused and a trusted partner. our new packaging facility at Yatala While in Australia, we entered an optimistic about future opportunities in Australia. Both initiatives signal our exciting new relationship with the As part of Oji Holdings’ aspiration for cellulose-based products. owner’s support to invest and expand New South Wales Foodbank. to reduce the environmental Natural renewable products that Oji Fibre Solutions’ operations. burden of its global operations, are low in carbon are growing in In late 2018, in a great example of Oji Fibre Solutions is set to invest in favour at a time when consumers Updating the evaporator system has the company’s focus on innovation, a new wastewater treatment system are increasing their scrutiny of been an integral part of improving we joined forces with Netlogix to at the Kinleith Mill. raw material inputs and seeking equipment reliability and productivity establish Bearing360, a market- sustainable packaging solutions. of the Tasman Mill. Other contributing facing shipping company offering Modernisation of Tasman Mill, projects include developing a new tailored solutions. expansion of packaging operations Through Oji Holdings’ scale, geothermal steam line, replacing an across Australia to better service market knowledge, pulp and paper I am proud to be leading a company old power boiler and an $18 million customers there and a strong experience and research and that is firmly part of the circular maintenance programme to address commitment to managing development skills, it is helping to economy, creating value from natural, production issues. Over the course environmental impacts has improved create value in Oji Fibre Solutions and renewable and recyclable resources. of 2018 we also rationalised pulp Oji Fibre Solutions’ future focused in the economies and environments production to concentrate on our positioning during 2018. in which we are located. Oji Fibre Solutions 7 Sustainability Report 2018 CORPORATE OVERVIEW Our products Our services Market pulp Containerboard Packaging Fullcircle Logistics We apply our skill and We produce kraft and Oji Fibre Solutions’ Fullcircle is New Zealand’s Lodestar has expertise in 260,305 tonnes of fibre recovered experience to provide recycled fibre-based packaging business is only paper recovery and providing a comprehensive by Fullcircle in 2018 world-class kraft market containerboards in a wide one of Australasia’s largest recycling service that logistics service pulps for use in various range of weights to be fibre-based manufacturers transforms waste paper incorporating end-to-end boards and specialty converted into high-quality
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