NewPage Port Hawkesbury (NPPH) is a pulp and paper company in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and is responsible for all forest management decisions on Crown and company-owned land managed by the company.  To show  that NPPH's forest management activities adhere to the principles of sustainable forest management, NPPH committed to achieving certification to various forest management and environmental standards. 

In 1998, the company was the first forest company in Canada to become registered to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard.  In 2001, the company successfully achieved certification to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and Canada Standards Association (CSA) forest management standards, the first in North America to do so.  Recently (February 2008), the company was the first in the Maritime Provinces to successfully achieve certification to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Maritime Standard for responsible forest management.  Additionally, the company successfully achieved certification to the FSC Chain-of-Custody standard and PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) Chain-of-Custody standard for the traceability of its wood supply.

About NewPage Corporation

Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, NewPage Corporation is the largest coated paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity, with $3.1 billion in net sales for the year ended December 31, 2009. The company’s product portfolio is the broadest in North America and includes coated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered, newsprint and specialty papers. These papers are used for corporate collateral, commercial printing, magazines, catalogs, books, coupons, inserts, newspapers, packaging applications and direct mail advertising.

NewPage owns paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia, Canada. These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately 4.4 million tons of paper, including approximately 3.2 million tons of coated paper, approximately 1.0 million tons of uncoated paper and approximately 200,000 tons of specialty paper.


Port Hawkesbury Operations

The Woodlands Unit of the Port Hawkesbury Mill has been in existence since the mill started operations in 1962. It is responsible for supplying wood to the mill and for the management of 630,000 hectares (approximately 1.55 million acres) of Crown and company-owned land in eastern Nova Scotia.

In 1998, the Woodlands Unit was the first forest company in Canada to successfully achieve registration to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard. Additionally, the Woodlands Unit achieved a milestone in early 2002 when it became the first forestry operation in North America to become certified to the American Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standard and Canadian Standards Association (CSA) standard for sustainable forest management. Another significant milestone achieved in 2008 was the successful certification to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Maritime Standard for responsible forest management. Also in 2008, NPPH received certification to the FSC Chain-of-Custody standard and PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) Chain-of-Custody standard for the traceability of its wood supply.

The Port Hawkesbury Mill produces supercalendered papers used primarily for magazines, catalogs and advertising materials, and standard and improved newsprint.