Factory tour: Installation of 14 explanatory panels

Factory tours are an important part of our year: clients, suppliers, students, and strategic partners come to discover our history, our expertise, and to meet our teams.

To make these visits more visual and educational, we have installed 14 explanatory panels at strategic locations throughout the site.

They help to better explain:
• Our process,
• The specificities of our professions and products,
• Our commitments to sustainable development.

These panels also support our guides by making the visit
or experience more professional, more visual, and accessible to all audiences.

Because explaining also means sharing, building trust, and moving forward together towards new heights!

Many thanks to our partner Imprimerie MBI for printing the panels!

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FSC® Forest Week is coming to a close — the perfect time to shine a spotlight on the CertForAlp project!

Since early 2025, La Rochette Cartonboard has been part of the CertForAlp project – Certification of forest-wood supply chains in the Alps, developed under the Interreg France-Italy ALCOTRA program. 🍃

Two concrete actions are currently underway to expand certified forest areas, strengthen wood traceability systems, and enhance wood quality certifications:

1️⃣ Testing two certification processes within local supply chains (one in France and one in Italy). In these pilot territories, approaches and tools are being trialed to make certification more accessible for forest owners and companies in the sector.

2️⃣ Establishing a dedicated working group on certification communication (traceability and quality). The goal: to develop collective, cross-cutting actions that provide clear information to all stakeholders — going beyond the simple promotion of a label.

👉 Learn more about the project here: https://interreg-alcotra.eu/fr/certforalp-certification-des-filieres-foret-bois-dans-les-alpes

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FSC® Forest Week is the perfect occasion to unveil a project!

The Alpine forest resource is a precious asset: a renewable, high-quality wood, enhanced by local supply chains.

Since early 2025, La Rochette Cartonboard has been taking part in the CertForAlp project – Certification of forest-wood supply chains in the Alps, launched under the Interreg France-Italy ALCOTRA program. 🍃

This project plays a key role in a region highly sensitive to societal issues (landscape and tourism), such as the Alps between France and Italy. Forest management is often at the crossroads of debates between economic development and nature protection.

The project’s objectives:

– Strengthen certification tools for the management, origin, and quality of wood products from Alpine forest resources;

– Promote short supply chains while avoiding additional pollution;

Increase certified forest areas;

– Create a true opportunity for sustainable development in Alpine territories across France and Italy.

📢 Two demonstrative actions will be launched as part of the project… stay tuned for Friday’s announcement!

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FSC® Forest Week: it’s on!

📊 According to the FAO, we lose around 10 million hectares of forest every year. Yet, only one quarter of the world’s 4 billion hectares of forests are currently protected or certified.

To tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, we all need to take action for forests: businesses, organizations, governments, and citizens alike.

🍃 At La Rochette Cartonboard, forest preservation is also part of our mission:

• FSC® certified since 2013, we prioritize FSC® raw materials to contribute to a future where forests and the communities who depend on them can thrive;

• The wood chips used to produce our mechanical pulp are sourced from local sawmills within a 100 km radius of our plant;

• The bark used as fuel for our biomass boiler comes from waste generated by nearby wood industries.

ℹ️ Learn more about our CSR commitments here: https://lnkd.in/gA2bG5Ef

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Launch of the first training sessions to ISO 22000 for our teams!

September marks the launch of the first training sessions dedicated to ISO 22000 for our teams!

Objectives:

✅ Understand and implement best practices in food and pharmaceutical safety;

✅ Contribute to the analysis and monitoring of the HACCP plan;

✅ Raise awareness and support teams;

✅ Bring the approach to life every day by giving meaning to everyone’s role.

Our pilot team, made up of employees from different departments and professions, is now becoming the ambassador of this initiative.

Because food and pharmaceutical safety is everyone’s business, we choose to train, engage, and empower our teams to move forward together.

Step by step, our goal is for 100% of employees to be trained and aware, contributing collectively to reaching new summits. ⛰️

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FSC® Forest Week is coming soon!

This year, La Rochette Cartonboard is joining forces with FSC and many committed organizations around the world to promote responsible forest management from 20 to 26 September.

FSC®, an international non-profit organization, provides strict and reliable solutions to safeguard the world’s forests, tackle deforestation, protect biodiversity, and address climate challenges.

Today, more than 160 million hectares of forests are FSC-certified, based on recognized environmental, social, and economic criteria.

🔎 Throughout the week, we will share what FSC certification really means in practice and highlight a collaborative project that contributes, at our level, to forest preservation.

FSC France Forest Stewardship Council

[FSC® FSC – C120067]

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