The Gmund ECO Certification
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The Gmund ECO certification logo stands for the high environmental standards at Gmund. From now on Gmund customers can attest their environment-friendliness on their stationery, brochures, cards, mailings and homepage with this logo.
Just fill in the printed pdf-form and send it to the mentioned fax number. After receiving your fax, the logo will be sent to you immediately by e-mail:
For further information on the use of the Gmund ECO certification logo, please contact us at: 08022 75 00-86
We really care
The Gmund Environmental Charter
As the first paper mill Gmund determines with its Environmental Charter a novel ecological standard and clearly comments on the four columns of environmental protection in the paper industry:
Water
A worldwide unique circulation- and water purification-plant cleans the colored production water by means of ozone (O3) avoiding any additional chemicals. Thus the water consumption has been reduced significantly in the past years.
Raw Materials
For the production of the fine papers, solely environmentally friendly, sustainable raw materials are used. Of course they are FSC certified just as the whole product range.
Waste
Already since many years exists a strict internal waste elimination program. Every piece of waste is separated and will be, wherever possible, recycled. Thanks to this process the amount of waste has been reduced by 82 % within the last 10 years.
Energy
The energy generation is exemplary in Gmund. Over 70 % of the energy gets produced from the production itself by own waterpower and the cogeneration of heat as well as with a photopholtaic plant.
NEW since June 2009:
A new boiler house was implemented and emissions have been partly reduced by up to 98 %.
Order your own Environmental Charter here: Environmental Charter
Our company is FSC certified since July 2006 (Nr. GFA - COC - 001370). For the manufacturing of our FSC certified papers we use FSC certified materials and materials from controlled sources. The control of the non FSC certified materials is accomplished according to the FSC standard for controlled wood (FSC-STD-40-005).
In accordance with the standard for controlled wood we thus commit that it is the principle of Büttenpapierfabrik Gmund to exclude raw material from the following sources:
- illegally harvested wood
- wood harvested from forest areas where civil or traditional rights of the population have been violated
- wood harvested from non certified forest areas with high conservation value (so-called High Conservation Value Forests HCVF)
- wood harvested from genetically modified (GM) trees
- wood harvested from forests that have been converted to plantations or for non-forest use
If it turns out that our company uses wood from such sources we will immediately take all necessary action including the stop of purchasing from these sources for all products subject to this guideline.
Our company is committed to take the utmost effort to identify the origin of the wood used for the manufacturing of FSC product groups. Should the identification of origin of several raw materials prove to be impossible, we commit ourselves to replace them with raw materials from known origin.