The new year has begun for Sonae Arauco and, just like everyone else, we have some new year’s resolutions of our own. Our new year’s resolutions place a focus on our global mindset and our continued pursuit of sustainability, while also prioritising putting our customers at the centre of our business.
Global mindset
Sonae Arauco’s focus on our Global Mindset means that we see the importance of being a community conscious, global business that takes our impact on the environment and our planet incredibly seriously. This is how we’ve made improving our Global Mindset one of our new year’s resolutions:
- Continue to do our utmost to ensure the wellbeing and safety of our employees, as well as improve the standard of living for them and their families, as we know that together we can go further. This is achievable through:
o Risk reduction and control to prevent incidents, accidents, injuries and occupational diseases;
o Ensuring safety in the factories and workplaces in general, including all equipment;
o Employee training and commitment to ongoing improvement in all these processes.
- We continue to hold respecting the environment as a top priority and strive to sustainably utilise our raw materials and to maintain our E1 Certification. We will continue to uphold the standards for formaldehyde emissions, ensuring that our products meet the strictest environmental impact requirements. We achieve this by:
o Sourcing our wood from sustainably managed sources, certified through two of the largest forest management and responsibility chain certification systems: the PEFC™ (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes) and the FSC® (Forestry Stewardship Council®).
o All our factories are certified for Environmental Management, Quality Management and Health and Safety at Work Management, in accordance with the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001 international standards, and most of them are also certified for Energy Management, in accordance with the ISO 50001 international standard.
- Our goal is to continue to practise, encourage and promote social responsibility as part of our global mindset. We achieve this by continuing to promote ethical business practises and respecting and uplifting the communities which we are in.
To put our customers at the centre of our business
Our company thrives thanks to our belief in creating long-lasting partnerships with our customers and partners. As such, we see the importance of putting forward a strategy which puts our valued customers at the centre of our business, in order to achieve continued success.
- We strive to take our clients’ ambitions further by continuing to offer an attractive combination of industrial expertise, functionality, sustainable quality, design and price.
- We see the importance role that being reliable and easy to do business with has in success. In order to achieve that we ensure that ethics and transparency are rooted in our business practises, along with integrity and commitment to our customers and stakeholders.
Our goal is to develop solutions inspired by wood while still upholding our values as a company and taking responsibility for our environment. More than just creating wood-based products, our global mindset ensures that we improve people’s lives.
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