Partnership with
The Nature Conservancy
Xerox is in its second year of a three-year,
$1 million grant to The Nature
Conservancy to fund efforts to advance
sustainable forest management. The
Xerox/Nature Conservancy partnership
is focusing on forest management in
Brazil, Canada, Indonesia and the U.S.
It is identifying and promoting best
practices that will enable environmental
scientists, forest managers and paper
suppliers to work cooperatively toward
sustainable forest management. In the
first year of the partnership, Xerox
supported the launch of the Canadian
Boreal Data Center linking Boreal Forest
data and information to diverse users
to improve resource management,
monitoring and conservation planning.
Forest Stewardship
Council-Certified Papers
Xerox is introducing this year papers that
comply with Forest Stewardship Council
(FSC) standards, the world’s strongest
system for guiding sustainable forest
management. These papers use raw
materials from a FSC-certified source,
controlled wood sources or postconsumer
reclaimed sources. As a
requirement for displaying the FSC
label on its papers, Xerox earned FSC
Chain-of-Custody certification from
the Rainforest Alliance’s SmartWood
program. Xerox has also earned
Program for the Endorsement of
Forest Certification (PEFC) and plans
to offer PEFC-labeled papers.
Recycled Paper
Recycled content is another way Xerox
reduces the environmental impact of
its papers. Our recycled papers use
post-consumer waste in place of new
pulp. Every ton of recycled fiber avoids
the use of three and one-half tons of
virgin fiber.1 When you’re the world’s
largest brand distributor of cut-sheet
paper, those numbers add up.
Recycled products are required to
meet the same strict performance
specifications as virgin products, and
are designed for optimal performance
in Xerox equipment. Xerox offers
multipurpose papers with up to 30%
post-consumer recycled content.
For more information on Xerox paper
visit www.xerox.com/supplies.
First Mechanical Paper
for Digital Printing
The Xerox High Yield Business Paper™
is a mechanical fiber paper developed
by scientists and engineers at the
Xerox Media and Compatibles
Technology Center, a lab devoted to
paper innovation located in Webster,
N.Y. Xerox High Yield Business Paper
is made through a “greener” process
than standard paper used with digital
printers. The sheet is produced by
mechanically grinding wood into
papermaking pulp instead of using a
traditional chemical pulping process
for producing digital business papers.
For example, 90% of the tree by weight
ends up in the High Yield Business Paper
versus only 45% in creating traditional
digital printing paper. In addition,
High Yield Business Paper requires
less water and fewer chemicals and is
produced in a plant using hydroelectricity
to partially power the pulping process.
The paper brings the benefits of
traditional mechanical fiber paper to
digital printers that produce high quality,
shorter-life print applications. The lighter
weight of High Yield Business Paper
makes it ideal for transactional printers
and direct-mail centers seeking to
reduce shipping costs.
Efficient Use of Paper
Including reliable two-sided (duplex)
printing, Xerox equipment and software
are also designed with features that
allow customers to make efficient use
of paper. Software products such as
DocuShare®, FreeFlow® SMARTsend®,
FreeFlow Scan to PC Desktop,
FreeFlow SMARTdocument Travel™
and FreeFlow Digital Workflow
Collection help Xerox customers
reduce paper consumption by
facilitating electronic data management,
scan to e-mail, print-on-demand,
and distribute-then-print workflows.
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