Weyerhaeuser's 2009 Sustainability Performance Available Online

28.07.2010  |  Business Wire

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.