FLXON To Distribute Protective Gloves
sible sourcing, environmental and safety improve- ment, product stewardship, stakeholder partnerships and transparency. 2015 Sustainability Highlights include: • Verso’s Lost Workday Incident Rate (LWIR) im- proved 10 percent to 0.54. • Forty-eight percent of the fiber used in Verso’s products was third-party certified and 32 percent of its total paper sold was chain-of-custody certified. • Carbon-neutral, wood-based biomass accounted for 64.4 percent of on-site energy generated at Verso’s mills. • More than 58 percent of the manufacturing byproducts generated at Verso’s mills was reused for energy generation and 28.1 percent was reclaimed for other beneficial reuse applications. Only 13.7 per- cent of Verso’s solid waste was sent to landfills. • Verso and its employees made financial and in- kind contributions totaling approximately $638,000 to a wide variety of community organizations with a focus on education, sustainability, and local health and human services. • Verso purchased goods and services to run its business from more than 2,450 local/regional ven- dors, spending more than $950 million.
FLXON, Charlotte, North Carolina, will distribute the SAFETY+FIRST line of cut and chemical resistant protective gloves. “Over the course of thousands of visits at flexo- graphic and rotogravure pressrooms, our team con- tinues to encounter operators and support staff suffering from cuts to hands and fingers,” said Ryan Sharkey, Nor th Amer ican Sales Manager. “SAFETY+FIRST gloves are comfortable to wear, offer a higher degree of dexterity and grip while providing ANSI LEVEL 3 cut resistance. In addition, these gloves are double dipped; once to provide chemical resistance to the wrist and added grip to the palm and fingers.”
Verso Publishes 2015 Sustainability Report
Verso Corporation, Memphis,Tennessee, released its 2015 Sustainability Report titled A Principled Path to Sustainability . The 2015 report is organized according to Verso’s five sustainability principles, which focus on respon-
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