Canon publishes the Sustainability Report 2023

Two Sides is excited to announce its newest member and supporter, SCREEN Europe, one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of production systems for the prepress and inkjet digital printing industries. SCREEN Europe’s portfolio includes cutting-edge inkjet presses renowned for their precision, speed, and versatility. These presses cater to diverse sectors such as commercial printing, packaging, labels, and industrial printing, enabling customers to meet their specific production needs efficiently. “SCREEN Europe’s commitment to innovation is evident through its continuous research and development efforts aimed at improving printing capabilities and addressing evolving market demands. By using advanced technologies and industry expertise, the SCREEN delivers solutions that enhance productivity, quality, and cost-effectiveness for its clientele, whilst also focussing on improved sustainability.” says Juan Cano, Business Development Director for SCREEN Europe.

Operating across two time zones and two Canadian provinces, with a combined area the size of continental Europe, hasn't stopped the Central Canada Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Implementation Committee from setting a new standard for community building, partnerships and member participation. In recognition of this outsized effort, the committee received the SFI Implementation Committee Award at the SFI 2016 Annual Conference. "The committee has established an extraordinary range of partnerships and signed 15 memorandums of understanding (MOUs). The central Canada committee is the first Canadian committee to win this award. The fact that they managed to stand out in such a competitive competition, among 34 SFI Implementation Committees, speaks volumes about the good work they are doing to promote SFI and spread responsible forestry," said Kathy Abusow, President and CEO of SFI Inc. The committee's partners come from government, NGOs, universities, Indigenous groups and industry. "I was deeply impressed by the level of commitment, participation and attendance at their meetings," said Mike Sullivan who sat on the award evaluation committee. Sullivan is a member of the SFI External Review Panel and a Director at the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources. "The committee's enthusiasm for spreading responsible forestry is contagious and their hard hat sticker campaign is engaging frontline harvesting professionals." click Read More below for the rest of the story

Metsä Group is exploring possibilities to construct a carbon capture facility at one of its pulp or bioproduct mills. The investigation is a continuation of the work initiated in the spring, in which Metsä Group and Fortum jointly studied the capture of wood-based carbon dioxide and its use in the chemical industry and hydrogen economy, for example. According to Pirita Mikkanen, Metsä Group’s VP, Energy, wood-based carbon dioxide is a major production side stream in the forest industry, and it could be used more efficiently. “Our cooperation with Fortum has given us good experiences of and greater insight into carbon capture. I believe we can use wood-based carbon dioxide emissions much more than we currently do. We see new cooperation opportunities with the chemical industry, among others.”