Certifications
Sustainability and Continuous Improvement
Our team is committed to environmental sustainability and continuous improvement in our operations. We've invested in certification programs for training and compliance to grow our business in a way aligned with industry standards.
Forest Stewardship Council
FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social and economic benefits.
The FSC Principles and Criteria provide a foundation for all forest management standards globally, including the FSC US National Standard (v1.0) that guides forest management certification in the U.S.
Sustainable Forestry Initiative
At the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® Inc., we believe that sustainable forests are critical to our collective future. SFI® is a sustainability leader through our work in standards, conservation, community, and education.
As an independent, non-profit organization, we collaborate with our diverse network to provide solutions to local and global sustainability challenges. SFI works with the forest sector, brand owners, conservation groups, resource professionals, landowners, educators, local communities, Indigenous Peoples, governments, and universities.
SFI’S mission is to advance sustainability through forest-focused collaborations.
SFI’S vision is a world that values and benefits from sustainably managed forests.
SFI’S culuture believes in creating an empowered and supportive team that is committed to enhancing the value of forests for our shared equality of life now and in the future.
Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification
PEFC, the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification, is a leading global alliance of national forest certification systems. As an international non-profit, non-governmental organization, we are dedicated to promoting sustainable forest management through independent third-party certification.
We endorse national forest certification systems developed through multi-stakeholder processes and tailored to local priorities and conditions. We believe that forest certification needs to be local; this is why we choose to work with national organizations to advance responsible forestry. Forest certification is at our core. We provide forest owners, from the large to the small, with a tool to demonstrate their responsible practices, while empowering consumers and companies to buy sustainably.
A membership organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, we have more than 80 members located around the world, including national certification systems, NGOs, labour unions, business, trade associations, forest owner organizations and committed individuals. Our 55 national members are independent, national organizations that develop and implement the PEFC system within their country. While our 31 international stakeholder members include companies, organizations and associations whose principles and objectives are in support of ours.
In 1999, small- and family forest owners from Europe came together to create a forest certification system that would enable them to demonstrate their excellence in sustainable forest management. 20 years on, PEFC is the largest forest certification system in the world!
IDEAlliance G7 Certification
IDEAlliance is a pioneering graphic communications industry association. We engage partners across the entire supply chain, making us different from other industry associations. We create solutions to workflow barriers, using real-world standards and guidelines. We then go a step further, simplifying the complexity of our workflow improvements by training and certifying your team, and by certifying the systems and facilities essential to your business.
We have created standards-based, automatable processes, enabling every part of the print supply chain to change, grow, and prosper.
The pace of change for the graphic communications field is accelerating. Disruption in print and packaging affects everyone, from brand owners and graphic designers to print service providers and manufacturers. At Idealliance, our job is to help everyone in the print and packaging supply chain not only cope with that change but also embrace and profit from it.
The ideal outcome for graphic communicators is to achieve cost-effective, reproduceable color on any material, and to have dynamic workflows, using any print process, anywhere in the world. To that end, we offer extensive online and in-person training and certification programs for students and professionals. We are the world’s leading certifier of systems and facilities to prove they can meet those standards and allow every part of the print and packaging supply chain to reduce operating costs and save time to maximize profitability.
AICC Independent Packaging Association
AICC, The Independent Packaging Association represents and protects the business interests of our members in the independent sector of the corrugated, folding carton, and rigid box industries.
We provide boxmakers with the information needed to thrive in the paper packaging industry along with training to help maximize your employees' potential & your company’s profit.
AICC is the largest organization of corporate members in Corrugated and Paperboard. AICC will continue to leverage our brand to influence industry growth and vitality by being active in industry coalitions – NAM, ICPF, ICCA, CPA.
Packaging has become a high-tech business. More automation, higher throughput speeds, web-based systems for inventory and operational control have made box plants impressively efficient operations. AICC Associate Member companies lead the way in offering next-generation technology to the packaging markets.
Brewers Association
At the Brewers Association, our work is dedicated to small and independent craft brewers — and we focus on six key areas: advocacy, independence, best practices, community, supply chain health, and brewing excellence.
Our assocation's purpose is to promote and protect American craft brewers, their beers, and the community of brewing enthusiasts.
The Brewers Association is a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit trade association. The association is an organization of brewers, for brewers and by brewers. More than 5,300 U.S. brewery members and 46,000 members of the American Homebrewers Association are joined by members of the allied trade, beer wholesalers, retailers, individuals, other associate members and the Brewers Association staff to make up the Brewers Association.