"In the past, the ... [StoraEnso] Berghuizer mill has used a small amount of pulp containing fibre from Upper Lapland in Xerox products. Going forward, Xerox products produced in the Berghuizer mill will not contain any fiber from Upper Lapland."

This is part of ongoing correspondence between the Xerox and our campaigners. Xerox has also adopted a new procurement policy, which is meant to ensure that suppliers do not source timber from "old-growth forests, conservation areas or other areas designated for protection".

Paper giant StoraEnso is a major supplier to Xerox and dozens of other paper companies - via StoraEnso's Berghuizer papermill, in Wapenveld, in the Netherlands. During 2004, several thousand tonnes of woodpulp for the Berghuizer mill came from another StoraEnso facility, the Kemijärvi pulpmill in northern Finland. Last month, we managed to track pulp from Kemijärvi to the Berghuizer mill, showing that the destruction of Finland's old-growth forests is ongoing - for benefit of the paper and publishing industry throughout Europe.

StoraEnso - who had their annual general meeting today in Helsinki - is in turn the single biggest customer of Metsáhallitus - the Finnish state Forestry company, which is ultimately responsible for the impending destruction of old-growth forests and reindeer herding areas.

More on the StoraEnso AGM tomorrow...

- Dave

StoraEnso can stop the destruction of old-growth reindeer forests by not buying logs from these areas. Pressure them to change! »

Photo: © Greenpeace/Matti Snellman