Weyerhaeuser's 2009 Sustainability Performance Available Online
Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) today announced its 2009 sustainability
performance results are available online at www.wy.com/sustainability.
Weyerhaeuser uses an online reporting method that provides
comprehensive, searchable access to its sustainability performance
annually.
Highlights of Weyerhaeuser′s 2009 sustainability performance results
include:
Employees achieved a year-end recordable
incident rate of 0.62, surpassing the previous year′s
record-breaking recordable incident rate of 0.98. Sixty-seven percent
of the company′s manufacturing facilities operated with zero lost-time
injuries.
The company′s cellulose fibers mills reported a 12.5
percent water-use reduction, on its journey toward a long-term
goal of a 20-percent reduction from 2007 levels by 2012.
Ninety-nine percent of the products
Weyerhaeuser manufactures and the forests
it manages worldwide are certified to sustainable forestry
standards.
The company reduced
its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent from 2000 levels,
making progress towards its commitment of a 40 percent reduction by
2020.
Weyerhaeuser's entire iLevel product line received
a 'green' designation from the National Association of
Home Builders Research Center and was certified for use under the
National Green Building Standard.
The company′s homebuilding subsidiaries continued their leadership
in building green homes, with recognition from a number of
organizations, including the National Association of Homebuilders and
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Weyerhaeuser and the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation donated
$3.8 million in charitable-giving grants, and 1,017 employees and
retirees contributed 10,714 hours to volunteer projects through the
company′s Making
WAVES program.
Weyerhaeuser was recognized
by the investor-backed Forest Footprint Disclosure Project for
leadership in managing its operations and supply chains to minimize
the effects on forests worldwide.
Weyerhaeuser was included on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North
America, named one of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens by Corporate
Responsibility Magazine, and recognized as one of the 'World′s Most
Ethical Companies? by Ethisphere Institute.
Weyerhaeuser has published a sustainability report since 2002, following
the guidelines recommended by the Global Reporting Initiative, a
voluntary process for standard reporting on the economic, environmental
and social dimensions of a company′s activities, products and services.
The company has published an annual environmental performance report
since 1993, and moved the information entirely online in 2007. The
current web-based update is our fourth report produced using the GRI's
G3 guidelines to an application level of 'A.'
Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world′s largest forest products
companies, began operations in 1900. We grow and harvest trees, build
homes and make a range of forest products essential to everyday lives.
We manage our timberland on a sustainable basis in compliance with
internationally recognized forestry standards. At the end of 2009, we
employed approximately 14,900 employees in 10 countries. We have
customers worldwide and generated $5.5 billion in sales in 2009. Our
stock trades on the New York Stock exchange under the symbol WY.
Additional information about us is available at http://www.weyerhaeuser.com.
Weyerhaeuser Company
Xan McCallum, 253-924-3781
