Sylvamo Receives Bronze Medal from Leading Sustainability Rating Agency

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Sylvamo received a 2024 Bronze medal in its first EcoVadis assessment, placing it in the top 35% of companies with this rating in the world and top 20% in the pulp and paper industry.

EcoVadis provides the leading solution for assessing the quality of a company’s sustainability performance in environment, labor and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement. More than 85,000 companies have been assessed by EcoVadis, making it the global standard for business sustainability ratings.

“Undergoing this assessment is an important element of measuring progress against our strategy and 2030 Goals,” said James McDonald, Sylvamo's chief sustainability officer. “Our scorecard provides key data on sustainability performance to identify new opportunities, manage risk and continually improve as we help the world realize the promise of paper.”

Sylvamo’s EcoVadis scorecard found environmental performance to be in the top 9% and sustainable procurement in the top 22%, benchmarking above average in the industry.