Sustainable Development: the Natural Choice

The 2nd issue of the Sustainability Report gives an account of the Company's sustainability-related policies and practices as well as the main initiatives and objectives achieved so far in this area.

Highlights:

• A number of analysis carried out by independent entities have confirmed the environmental benefits of using cork stoppers and cork floor and wall coverings;
• Applications for ten patents were submitted;
• Enhancing the Value and Sustainability of the Cork Oak and its Associated Biodiversity;
• 8400 new hectares of cork oak forest were certified by FSC;
• Employees training increased 43 percent in 2007;
• A 4.6 percent reduction in CO2 emissions per kilo of consumed cork;
• Contribution to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Aware of its responsibility as the undisputed leader in the industrial cork business, the segment that guarantees the economic viability of the world's cork forests, CORTICEIRA AMORIM has published its first Sustainability Report.