Business and Biodiversity Initiative

Our Targets

For the next two years, we have set ourselves objectives to incorporate biodiversity further into our company activities. The major objectives are:

• to analyse the performance of our biodiversity projects concerning forestry in Brazil and worldwide;
• to appoint a company representative for biodiversity, in light of the importance of this topic, who will coordinate all relevant activities worldwide and report to the Board of Management;
• to include all activities and the respective results in our reports on sustainability.

Our Motivation

The Brand Essetials define the core values of the Faber-Castel brand, forming our code of conduct within the company and society. Social and evironmental responsibility is one of our brand essentials, which expresses our consistent obligation and commitment towards people and the environment.

Owing to our unique forest project in Brazil, we possess 25 years of experience in handling sustainably produced and certified wood resources for the manufacture of our range of pencil products. 

Our Focus

Our forestry project, which encompasses 10.000 hectares of stone pines in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, was certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) in 1999.

Around 30 % of the forest consist of native vegetation and are managed to preserve and enrich the natural fauna and flora and to educate society about the importance of environmental protection and biodiversity. 

We pay special attention to FSC standards regarding wood purchases. Currently, we use 80% of FSC-certified wood worldwide for the production of our wood-cased pencils. Our aim is to achieve that more than 95% of our worlwide demand in wood is purchased from FSC-certified wood supplies by 2012. 

Moreover, FABER-CASTELL Germany is the only manufacturer worldwide to consistently use environment-friendly water-based paint for pencil coating. With this technology FABER-CASTELL set an ecological benchmark for the entire industry.

Headquarters
Stein, Germany

Major products
High quality writing and drawing implements

Global turnover 2007/08
ca. 420 million Euro

Global employees
6,500

Homepage
www.faber-castell.de