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About Staff Reports Finch Paper Displays its Green Credentials
As they travel to industry By Julie Greenbaum | Posted on August 11, 2010
conferences, trade shows and
media briefings, Printing
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onsite accounts of these
events.
E-mail Staff Reports Finch Paper recently Photos
opened its mill (and
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forests) in Glens Falls, NY,
to several industry media
and analysts, myself
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RSS Feed With its hands-on, feet-in-the-forest approach, much of the wood that Finch
uses for its papers comes from the forests that it manages for the Nature
Conservancy (producing 75 percent of its own pulp). More than two-thirds of
the company's energy needs are met by renewable resources—hydropower
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from the river outside of the mill and biomass from the bark and unused
Assumptions Have chips of raw material. Because of the environmentally responsible approach
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Printing Sales that Finch has practiced since its outset, the company has greatly reduced
Sep 1, 2010 its carbon footprint. In 2009, Finch reduced its emissions by 14 percent and
RSS Feed is on track for an additional 6 percent reduction in 2010.
For the second part of the Finch Paper tour, Finch forester Leonard Cronin
Margie's Buyer Insights took our group into the forest, which provided an example of a typical
“shelterwood” system in action (a technique where the largest and healthiest
What Print Buyers
DO Want trees in a forest stand are the last to be harvested, so that they can provide
Aug 31, 2010 seeds and shelter for the next generation of forest). Cronin also explained
RSS Feed the steps involved prior to the start of a timber harvest.
We also met up with Finch forester Danielle LaValley, who explained the
The Sales Challenge process for marking the trees that will eventually be removed by loggers.
1 of 3 During and after the harvest, the foresters revisit the woods to look for the 9/3/10 11:19 AM
Ten Rules of Sales
Etiquette marks at the bottoms of the trunks in order to see if the correct trees have
been cut.
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