Environmental policy

We are proud to be adhering to the requirements of the environmental management certificate ISO 14001, quality management certificate ISO 9001, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certificate, Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) scheme and the Nordic Ecolabelling license.

ISO 9001 quality management systems standard aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the quality management system

ISO 14001 environmental management systems standard specifies requirements for an environmental management system to enable an organisation to develop and implement a policy and objectives which take into account legal requirements and other requirements to which the organisation subscribes, and information about significant environmental aspects.

ISO 9001:2008

FSC and PFC certification ensures that forestry operations meet a set of environmental, social and economic criteria covering compliance with laws and international treaties, land-use and indigenous peoples’ rights, community relations, biodiversity conservation and maintenance of high conservation value forests, among other things.

ISO 14001:2004

The Nordic Ecolabel is the Nordic countries’ official environmental ecolabel

It assesses the entire environmental impact of aprinting company’s activity –everything from the choice of paper approved by the Nordic Ecolabel to good practices in making work environmentally friendly

Kroonpress operates at 86% load capacity

2010 In Brief

2010 was a successful year for us Production efficiency has been growing ever since the installation of the newest printing press in 2008 and we have now reached an average 86% of our full capacity, which

Here’s the amount of resources we used in 2010: means the capital goods within the plant are being used efficiently with minimum downtime, which, in turn, decreases energy and material waste and increases the useful lifespan of machinery and other equipment.

27 620

Equivalent to the weight of 3.8 Eiffel Towers

83 tonnes of aluminium

Equivalent to the weight of 5.7 unladen London double-deckers double MWh

6 737 m3 of H of electricity

Equivalent to electricity production from two 1.5 MW air turbines (height 80 m) at 30% efficiency tonnes of paper tonnes of ink

Equivalent to the volume of 2.4 average hot air balloons

710

Equivalent to the weight of the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro

924 074 m of natural gas

Equivalent to the volume of 4.6 Hindenburg airships

Ink makes up roughly 2.5% of the weight of a printed product weight 46 g

The Average is something you won’t find in stores. It is an imaginary piece of journalism that represents the average consumption of materials and energy per printed product at our plant It roughly represents the average newspaper or light-weight magazine.

Electricity equivalent of a 60 W light bulb staying lit for 12 minutes

1.5 litres of natural gas

1 gram of ink

0.011 litres of water