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Sustainable forest management

All Kimberly-Clark Australia’s tissue products are now PEFC accredited for ‘promoting sustainable forestry’.

PEFC is the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification.

PEFC certification

PEFC certification means that Kimberly-Clark Australia’s tissue products meet PEFC’s thorough and stringent requirements for sustainable management of wood supplies.

It is your guarantee of our commitment to protecting our natural resources by sourcing fibres from plantations and environmentally sustainable forests.

The PEFC certification process involves detailed procedures that bring together separate audits and certification. It certifies which forest areas meet detailed sustainable forest management practices.

The chain of custody procedures verify the amounts of certified forest wood flowing downstream into fibre production and finally, paper products.

What makes Kimberly-Clark Australia PEFC certified?

To achieve certification, Kimberly-Clark has been independently audited to ensure that throughout the production process, the company is able to identify what fibre has gone into its products.

Importantly, its procedures must show the following:

  • no wood or fibre comes from illegal operations or controversial sources
  • the percentage of fibre which comes from certified forest operations.

Detailed calculations confirm that all Kimberly-Clark Australia tissue products have over 80% of fibre sourced from forests accredited under the PEFC scheme as sustainably managed. We are working with suppliers to aim for 100% of our wood and fibres from certified forests. Wood from all sources is certified, under chain of custody, as legally harvested and not from controversial sources.

Kimberly-Clark Australia’s certification includes the following auditing:

  • wood production (plantations/forests) in different countries
  • fibre (‘pulp’) production in different countries, and
  • tissue manufacture in Australia using different mixes of fibres.