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Office copier paper products: Kaskad


1. Paper information

Brand owner Spicers Paper
Paper Product / Brand name Kaskad
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Last updated 28 March 2011 16:36

2. Paper mill

Company Lessebo, Vida Paper
Location Sweden
Website http://www.vida.se

3. Contact details

Company details

Company Spicers Paper
Address 55 Business Parade North, Highbrook
City Auckland
Contact Jeff Strom
Phone 09 925 3000
Email jeff.strom@spicerspaper.co.nz
Website http://www.spicerspaper.co.nz

Resellers

Resellers CENZ, Corporate Express, Croxley, Officemax, OPD Group

4. Product details


SECTION 1


1.1 Product Type

What type of product is this?

1.2 Product Market

Which market is this product intended for?
Commercial

SECTION 2 (Star Categories)


2.1 Recycled content (50% or more Post consumer recycled fibre content) ()

Post-consumer waste includes waste from industrial paper consumers (e.g. Printers, packaging companies) but not in-house recycling at paper mills (mill broke) or waste products from the forestry/timber/saw mill industry.

Post-consumer recycled fibre content:

% of pulp 0%

2.2 Legal () and sustainable () fibre

Does all of the pulp come from legally harvested and sustainably produced timber resources, recycled sources or non-timber sources? (Multiple options possible)

Total Recycled Fibre:

% of pulp 0%

Virgin timber fibre from legal and sustainable sources:

% of pulp 100%
Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC)

Non Timber natural fibre:

% of pulp 0%
Percentage of Bagasse 0%
Percentage of Bamboo 0%
Percentage of Cotton 0%
Percentage of Hemp 0%
Percentage of Seaweed 0%
Other fibres, percentage 0%

2.3 Pulp bleaching ()

Is the pulp either not bleached or bleached using technologies that eliminate or minimise the discharge of chlorinated compounds?

Percentage of pulp not bleached 0%
Percentage of pulp TCF or PCF 100%
Percentage of pulp ECF 0%
Percentage of pulp EC 0%
Other technology, percentage 0%
Document: Kaskad, Self declaration bleaching & fibre (PDF, 55 KB, Expired: 23 Mar 2013)

2.4 Ecolabel ()

Is this product licensed to carry a life cycle impacts ISO 14024 Type 1 Ecolabel audited by an independent third party?

No

SECTION 3


3.1 Recommended application

Recommended uses for this paper.
Copying - Low-medium volume
Recommended
Copying - High volume
Recommended
Copying - Colour
Not Recommended
Printing - Laser (low-med volume only)
Recommended
Printing - Laser (high volume)
Recommended
Printing - Digital
Recommended
Printing - Inkjet (text)
Recommended
Printing - Inkjet (graphics)
Not specified.
Printing - Offset
Recommended
Printing - Screen
Recommended
Faxing
Performance Guaranteed
Duplexing
Recommended
Other
Not specified.

3.2 Environmental Management System

Does the importer/distributer have third party audited EMS accreditation that is relevant to this product?
Not specified.

3.3 Pulp whiteness & brightness

Pulp Whiteness and Brightness specifications.
Not specified.
Are optical brightening agents added during production?
Not specified.

3.4 Waste Reduction

Are individual packet wrappers (reams) made of materials that are currently able to be recycled in New Zealand?
Not specified.
Are shipping containers (e.g. boxes, shrink wrap) made of materials that are currently able to be recycled in New Zealand?
Not specified.
Are any plastics clearly marked to help facilitate recycling?
Not specified.
Are shipping pallets part of an active reuse or recycling system in New Zealand?
Not specified.
Are shipping reels of an active reuse or recycling system in New Zealand?
Not specified.
Is all packaging free of halogenated plastics?
Not specified.
Does cardboard packaging contain 80% or more recycled content?
Not specified.
Is the paper and/or packaging manufacturer a member of the NZ Packaged Goods Accord, signatory to the Australian Packaging Covenant, or party to an equivalent programme in another country?
Not specified.

3.5 Native forest protection

Is the paper free of fibre from native or indigenous forests which were intact or have regrown from earlier logging impacts (via timber or logging residues)?
Yes - other non FSC 100% documentation

3.6 "Closing the Loop" in New Zealand

Does the paper include any New Zealand origin pulp in the mix?
Virgin pulp from NZ forests 0%
Recycled pulp from NZ paper 0%

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