Highlights of Weyerhaeuser’s 2008 sustainability performance results include:

• Employees achieved a year-end recordable incident rate of 0.98, beating the company’s long-held safety milestone of an RIR of less than one. Seventy-five percent of its manufacturing facilities operated with zero lost-time injuries.
• The company’s cellulose fibers mills reduced water use by 10 percent, making significant progress toward the company’s long-term goal of a 20-percent reduction from 2007 levels by 2012.
• The company planted more than 100 million tree seedlings across the 21.9 million acres it manages worldwide.
• Ninety-nine percent of the products Weyerhaeuser manufactures worldwide are certified to sustainable forestry standards.
• The company reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent from 2000 levels. Learn more about Weyerhaeuser’s climate change commitment.
• Weyerhaeuser and Chevron formed Catchlight Energy LLC, a joint venture that will research and develop technology for converting cellulose-based biomass into economical, low-carbon biofuels.
• Weyerhaeuser signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Lenzing, the world market leader in cellulose staple fibers, to work together in the development of wood-based nonwoven fabrics.
• Weyerhaeuser and the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation donated $11.2 million in charitable-giving grants, and 2,335 employees contributed 17, 668 hours to volunteer projects through the company’s Making WAVES program.
• Weyerhaeuser was included on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America, named “Best in Class” by Storebrand, and named one of the “World’s 99 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 third report produced using the GRI's G3 guidelines to an application level of "A."

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