Responsible business

Stora Enso helps manage risk by proactively addressing regulation, sustainability, and transparency challenges. Through responsible sourcing, product stewardship, and data-driven insights, we support customers in ensuring compliance and making material choices to meet future needs.

Managing risk through responsible business

Businesses today operate in an environment shaped by evolving regulation, rising sustainability expectations, and increasing demand for transparency across value chains.

At Stora Enso, we take a proactive approach to managing operational, regulatory, and sustainability-related risks, while helping customers navigate a complex and rapidly changing landscape.

Through responsible sourcing, product stewardship, certified fibre, and data-driven insights, we support customers in reducing risk, ensuring compliance, and making material choices to today's needs without overlooking those of tomorrow.

Regulatory readiness

The transition to a circular bioeconomy is accelerating, driven by climate change, geopolitics, consumer behaviour and the evolving regulation such as the EU Taxonomy, the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements.

Stora Enso continuously monitors regulatory developments across key markets and translates them into actionable insights for customers. By combining renewable materials expertise with deep understanding of packaging, climate, and circularity frameworks, we help customers align with current requirements and prepare for what comes next.

Stora Enso also engages and collaborates with governments, regulators, legislators, businesses, and industry associations to achieve a stable policy environment that helps secure a more sustainable future.

Our wood sourcing is supported by third-party verification systems FSC® and PEFC™, with 99% of our owned or managed forests covered by third-party certification. In 2025, 84% of our total wood supply was certified, supporting traceability and sustainable forest management.

Responsible sourcing and traceability

Responsible sourcing is fundamental to managing risk in the wider supply chain ecosystem. Stora Enso has, as a business with over 20,000 suppliers around the world, a significant influence within global supply chains. Our commitment to responsible sourcing is underpinned by a comprehensive tendering process, proactive supplier engagement, strong risk management, and third-party supplier audits.

Stora Enso’s wood sourcing is supported by robust due diligence, supply chain transparency, and third-party certification systems such as FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council®) and PEFC™ (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification)*.

These systems enable traceability across the value chain and help ensure that materials originate from sustainably managed forests.

Through long-term partnerships with forest owners and suppliers, we strengthen resilience, transparency, and responsible forest management practices.

Stora Enso’s Supplier Code of Conduct is updated on a regular basis to reflect EU regulation updates. We engage with our suppliers to sign up to the code of conduct and to comply with this, while doing business with Stora Enso.

Product safety and food safety

Product safety and compliance are critical in packaging applications, particularly for food contact materials (FCM).

Stora Enso provides packaging materials and solutions that meet relevant product- and food contact material regulations in the EU and globally, quality standards, and customer-specific requirements.

Our capabilities include:

Compliance with relevant product- and food contact material regulations
Declaration of compliance for food contact materials and packaging
Food safety- and quality management systems
Technical support for safe material selection

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Data-driven sustainability and transparency

Reliable data on environmental performance is essential for reporting, compliance, and decision-making.

Stora Enso provides customers with transparent environmental data, including verified Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), supporting frameworks such as the EU Taxonomy and corporate sustainability reporting.

By integrating data into product development and customer dialogue, we enable:

Comparison of material alternatives
Data-driven packaging decisions
Greater value chain transparency
Support for climate and circularity targets

Supporting our customers

We support customers through:

FSC® and PEFC™ certified products
Product specific Declaration of Compliance (FCM DoC) for food contact materials and packaging
Transparency aligned with evolving regulatory requirements
LCA Data – Life Cycle Assessment data
EPDs – Environmental Product Declarations

Stora Enso Communications’ FSC® trademark license number is FSC-N001919

Stora Enso PEFC trademark license number is PEFC/02-44-22

Abbreviations

There are many abbreviations in the area of regulations and certifications. Here's the meaning of a few:

FSC® Forest Stewardship Council®
PEFC™ Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification
PPWR Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation
EPR Extended Producer Responsibility requirements
LCA Life Cycle Assessment insights and
EPDs Environmental Product Declarations