NEWS

(01/31/2014 / sha)

Valmet: Approved member of the UN Global Compact initiative

Valmet Corporation has been approved as a corporate member of the UN Global Compact initiative (UNGC). Signing of the initiative strengthens Valmet's commitment to sustainable operations.

 
 


"As a global technology and service supplier we deal with local communities and cultural surroundings around the world every day. The UN Global Compact is a valuable common reference that describes the values we respect and wish to promote in our operations," explains Pasi Laine, President and CEO of Valmet Corporation.
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he UN Global Compact is the world's largest corporate responsibility initiative, which was announced in 2000 by Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the UN. It has over 8,000 business and non-business participants in 135 countries. Members of the initiative are committed to voluntarily following the ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption in their businesses.