Zenger Group Receives Triple Certification

Print and marketing communications services provider The Zenger Group received chain-of-custody certification from the three leading international organizations that promote sustainable forestry practices. Certification enables the Buffalo, N.Y.-based company to assure its customers that its printed materials use paper produced from responsibly managed forests.

The three certifications are from independent, non-profit organizations that support sustainable forestry through chain-of-production monitoring and rigorous standards that address social and economic, as well as environmental concerns.

• The Forest Stewardship Council, which has certified more than 100 million hectares of forest worldwide about 7 percent of the world’s productive forests and awarded more than 7,500 FSC certificates.
• The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification, the world’s largest forest certification umbrella organization, which has certified more than 200 million hectares of forests and awarded more than 3,500 PEFC-certificates.
• The Sustainable Forestry Initiative, which provides a single, PEFC-endorsed standard for North America covering 135 million acres of forest and involving more than 320 facilities

The certifications apply to printing at two Zenger locations: its main digital and offset printing plant in Buffalo, and its offset printing facility in Kenmore, N.Y. Audits for all certifications were performed by the Bureau Veritas Certification.