To ensure a sustainable paper supply, it is essential to pay attention to forests and the entire ecosystem that surrounds them.
Fuji Xerox stipulates the use of environmentally friendly paper in all aspects of its business activities in accordance with the Environmental, Health and Safety Requirements for Paper Procurement.

In December 2004, Fuji Xerox joined with all of its domestic and overseas affiliates to formulate a set of Environmental, Health and Safety Requirements for Paper Procurement.
The objective is to prevent the depletion of resources from logging or destructive effects on ecosystems and the lifestyles of indigenous peoples resulting from the paper supply process.
The requirements set forth the raw material procurement demands that our copy paper suppliers must meet, which are demands that are the same throughout the world and coincide with the U. S. Xerox Corporation's requirements. Group companies only purchase the paper they sell and use from suppliers that have agreed to these activities.

Recently, the illegal logging of forests has become a global problem. In order to cope with this problem, the Law on Promoting Green Purchasing in Japan requires that wood materials be procured legally, and as a result, business firms and public agencies are advancing green procurement and CSR procurement to exclude products from illegally logged forests. In these initiatives, there is a forest certification system where third parties verify the logging of wood materials. Among the third-party certification bodies that operate under the system, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC, headquarter located in German), in certifying forests, adopts rigorous standards to determine whether forests are being properly managed, which cover not only the legality of logging but also environmental protection, social benefits, economic sustainability, and other CSR-related perspectives.
In FY2002, Fuji Xerox began to promote the use of pulp from certified forests whose environmental consciousness and legality was verified by FSC when they were supplied as pulp. In addition, for paper produced using certified forest pulp, we acquired FSC-CoC certification, which assures that products come from properly managed forests. At the end of FY2007, certification of FSC-CoC paper was expanded to 13 types of Fuji Xerox paper, which means that FSC-certified paper accounted for approximately 40% of copy and printer paper sold directly by Fuji Xerox and its affiliates.

Fuji Xerox has been investing in the New Zealand forestry company SPFL since 1996, providing support for its afforestation business.
The aim is to grow the materials we use on our own. The plantation has acquired FSC certification. Eucalyptus tree planting began in 1992, and felling started in August 2004 when the first trees became ready. In June 2005, we released FR, an eco-balanced paper containing pulp from this plantation.
SPFL plants eucalyptus trees every year, and the plantation area has now reached about 9,861 hectares (as of March 2007). Trees will be harvested and shipped every year from an area of the same size, and eucalyptus saplings will be replanted to replace felled trees. Starting in 2010, we expect a stable supply of about 180,000 tons of chips per year. The virgin pulp made from these trees accounts for about half the volume currently used for the paper sold by Fuji Xerox and its affiliates.

From FY2008 and on, Fuji Xerox will continue to expand utilization of certified forest products which uses resources from properly managed forest and offer higher level environmentally friendly paper. Since the procurement of used paper pulp and wooden materials from certified forest is estimated to be more and more difficult, we are going to study introduction of the paper that utilizes the technology for reduction of pulp used for every piece of paper.