Memberships
Edita is a member of several business and communications industry-related associations in Finland and Sweden.
The most important of these in Finland are the Finnish Association of Marketing Communications Agencies MTL, the Federation of the Finnish Media Industry, the Finnish Marketing Association, the Finnish Book Publishers Association, the Helsinki Region Chamber of Commerce and Finpro. In Sweden, Edita is a member of, among others, the Finnish-Swedish Chamber of Commerce and the Swedish Marketing Federation (Sveriges Marknadsförbund).
Edita is a member of Finnish Business & Society (FiBS), a network of enterprises that promotes financially, socially and ecologically sustainable business.
Edita Västra Aros AB is part of the UN’s Global Compact initiative. This is a strategic policy initiative in which businesses commit to complying with universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor law, the environment and anti-corruption.
Edita Prima Oy is a member of the Environmental Register of Packaging (PYR),
Edita Västra Aros Ab is a member of the corresponding Swedish packaging industry organization, REPA.
Certificates
Climate-neutral business
The Group’s climate-neutral companies are Edita Prima OyEdita Publishing OyJG Communication AbEdita Västra Aros AbMods Graphic Studio Ab.
These companies have reduced the carbon-dioxide emissions generated by their operations and compensated for the remaining emissions by funding UN-supervised clean development mechanism projects in India.
Green offices
Five of Edita’s offices currently comply with the WWF’s Green Office criteria. In the next few years, the goal is to broaden the Green Office system to cover all of Edita’s offices.
Nordic Ecolabel
Edita Prima in Helsinki, Edita Västra Aros in Västerås and Sandvikens Tryckeri are entitled to use the Nordic Ecolabel. The environmental impact of printing production has been considered throughout the production chain. Both the materials used and the production processes comply with the Nordic Ecolabel criteria.
Standard for environmental management
Edita Prima’s production plant in Helsinki and Edita Västra Aros’ plant in Västerås are certified in accordance with the ISO 14001 standard for environmental management. The Stockholm production plant of Edita Västra Aros will be certified in accordance with ISO 14001 standard in 2013.
Forest certification
Edita’s main production plants have certified their systems for monitoring the origin of the wood fiber used in their paper in accordance with international standards from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC). These printing companies are thus also entitled to use these labels indicating that the wood fiber used in their paper originates from a forest that is managed in a socially, ecologically and economically responsible manner.