Sustainability News
2015-02-17
APP introduces its 2015 FCP implementation plan to address lessons learned from the field, stakeholder input and the findings of the evaluation Hong Kong, 6 February 2015 – Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has today welcomed the Rainforest Alliance independent evaluation of its Forest Conservation Policy (FCP) . The evaluation concludes that the company has made moderate progress towards meet...
2014-12-09
Jakarta, 19 November 2014 – A 20MW rooftop solar project has been completed at Asia Pulp & Paper Group’s (APP) Gold HongYe Mill in Suzou, China, creating one of the world’s largest rooftop solar installations. The panels cover approximately 300,000 square meters – the equivalent of 42 football pitches. The installation consists of ten thousand panels installed acros...
2014-09-24
New York, 23 September, 2014 - Mr. Teguh Ganda Wijaya, Chairman of Asia Pulp and Paper Group (APP) , today joined a number of companies, governments and NGOs to sign the New York Declaration on Forests at an event at the UN Climate Summit 2014. The declaration is an unprecedented international, multi-sector commitment to safeguard the world's forests and to help tackle climate change. All ...
2014-09-11
Scott Poynton, Executive Director, The Forest Trust, said: 'We are pleased to be able to reassure everyone that APP and its suppliers have sufficient resource for the company's 100 per cent plantation target. We have identified one minor gap in 2020 but this can be easily filled by increasing the productivity of the plantation operations between now and then.' Aida Greenbury, APP&#...
2014-04-28
Immediate priority to secure wildlife conservation in the Bukit Tigapuluh landscape Asia Pulp and Paper Group (APP) has today announced a plan to restore and support the conservation of one million hectares of rainforest across Indonesia. This ground-breaking initiative has been developed with input from many stakeholders, including WWF, Greenpeace and NGO members of APP’s Solutions Wor...