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Tullis Russell Announces Key Appointment on Environment Day

Christine Wood, CSR Manager

Tullis Russell used World Environment day on 5th June to announce the appointment of Dr Christine Wood to the newly-created position of Corporate Social Responsibility Manager. This new senior role reinforces the leadership position the company is taking on environmental issues in the widest sense as it approaches its 200 year anniversary in 2009.

The company led the way in the premium cartonboard market with the FSC certification of its trucard and New Gemini brands and also supplies FSC certified brands such as Advocate to the business communications sector with other Tullis Russell brands such as Mellotex and Naturalis set to follow suit later this year. In addition, the company has extended this product offer to include 50% post consumer FSC certified recycled options within the Naturalis, trucard and New Gemini ranges.

Most excitingly, the company continues to work with a leading energy company on a potential biomass green energy plant, which would utilise local supplies of recovered wood normally destined for landfill. This would not only build on the company's environmental credentials but make a significant contribution to Scotland's overall renewable energy targets while protecting the jobs of the 530-plus employee shareholders working at the factory in Scotland.

As an employee-owned company and major local employer for almost 2 centuries in their native Fife, Tullis Russell takes its wider social responsibilities extremely seriously. The charitable Russell Trust, set up in honour of Patrick Russell who died in the Second World War, still invests its dividends each year in a plethora of educational, environmental and charitable causes, both locally and nationally.

Speaking of her new role, Christine Wood commented, "Having worked for Tullis Russell for 19 years, most of that time in Environmental Management, this is a hugely exciting challenge for me as the company seeks to build a leadership position on sustainability in the broadest of senses.

“Ensuring we drive down carbon emissions, make efficient use of resources, and continue to minimise the environmental impact of raw material procurement and site operations will reflect our core value that our business must operate in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner."