Stora Enso is an integrated paper, packaging and forest products company producing publication and fine papers, packaging boards and wood products, areas in which the Group is a global market leader. Customers include large and small publishers, printing houses and merchants, as well as the packaging, joinery and construction industries worldwide. The main markets are Europe, North America and Asia.
Stora Enso’s sales totalled EUR 12.4 billion in 2004. The Group has some 45 000 employees in more than 40 countries on five continents, and an annual production capacity of 16.4 million tonnes of paper and board, and 7.7 million m3 of sawn wood products, including 3.2 million m3 of value-added products. The Group has production facilities in Europe, North America and Asia. Stora Enso’s shares are listed in Helsinki, Stockholm and New York.
Sustainability reporting at Stora Enso
Stora Enso has produced annual environmental reports since the merger of Stora and Enso in 1998, continuing the good track record of both Stora and Enso in environmental reporting. The first Corporate Social Responsibility Report was published for the reporting year 2002.
This report is the Group’s second sustainability report, following the 2003 report, which combined environmental and social issues into an integrated sustainability report for the first time.
The report follows the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as far as it is appropriate and applicable to Stora Enso. The GRI content index contains information on how Stora Enso has reported the various information and indicators specified in the GRI guidelines, also stating where in this year’s reports this information can be found.
Stora Enso supports the ten principles of the UN Global Compact. For information about how Stora Enso has addressed these principles in 2004, please see the UN Global Compact table, which contains links to where this information can be found.
