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International news

23 April 2010
ASI welcomes a new staff member

Accreditation Services International (ASI) is pleased to welcome a new staff member to its international team. Etienne Kuzong will further the work of ASI, the independent accreditation body which...

22 April 2010
New project to demonstrate and evaluate satellite remote sensing technologies for FSC certification

On 1 May 2010 FSC is launching a new project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), to assess the value of satellite remote sensing technologies in the FSC certification process. The project...

16 April 2010
Major Brazilian bank Itaú Unibanco prints on FSC certified paper

Itáu Unibanco is the first financial institution in Brazil to achieve FSC Chain of Custody (FSC CoC) certification for its own print unit. With 51 tons of paper used annually, Itaú’s decision to...

16 April 2010
Timber Retail Coalition launched to curb illegal logging

Leading European retailers Carrefour Group, Kingfisher, Marks & Spencer and IKEA launched the Timber Retail Coalition (TRC) on 6 April 2010 to ensure minimum ethical standards for all timber and...

14 April 2010
Tetra Pak will supply over 100 million FSC-labeled packages to Carrefour stores in France

Carrefour and Tetra Pak announced on 1 April 2010 that Tetra Pak will supply more than 100 million FSC-labeled carton packages to Carrefour stores across France during 2010. Before the end of 2012,...



FSC in numbers

134.34 million  ha certified
18'663  CoC certificates
1014 FM/CoC certificates

(3 Sept 2010)     more...


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News

07 September 2010
Project certificates integrated in the FSC certificate database
03 September 2010
FSC Director General Andre de Freitas to speak at international conference on ethical certification
20 August 2010
Thailand’s first FSC-certified Tetra Pak carton package launched
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