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Collaborating on solutions

Collaboration across our value chain is key to our success. So we team up with our customers, supply chain partners and thought leaders to develop innovative ideas and gather diverse points of view.

The circular solutions we create together not only respond to changing market conditions and consumer demands, but also enjoy multiple lives through repeated cycles of reuse, recovery and recycling.

The teams at our research and development centers are at the forefront of these creative solutions for customers. Learn more about some of our 2022 collaborations here.

Creating innovative products

International Paper products are our primary contribution to a low-carbon, circular economy. We think about the entire life cycle of the product and how changes in product design impact decisions along its value chain. The result is products that are:

• Made efficiently and sustainably, from sourcing to production to transportation
• Designed with end-of-life in mind
• Easily recovered, recycled, reused or composted

Our product strategy...

...is informed by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the world's leading circular economy network. Through our membership, we're working with the Foundation and its partners to advance our contributions to circular, low-carbon solutions.

Learn more about our 2022 product innovations here.

Spotlight:

Circular customer solutions

In 2022 our Recycling, Containerboard and Packaging teams met with retail brand and International Paper customer, Macy's, to highlight the circular journey of a box and share our sustainability story. The tour followed the circular life of our fiber packaging by visiting a paper mill, box plant and Macy's own stores to see firsthand the circular lifecycle of a box from creation to recycling. The tour showed the sustainable nature of our manufacturing process, and the importance both forests and recovered fiber play in the creation of a box.

Renewable Solutions roadmaps by business group

To implement the four pillars of our strategy, our Renewable Solutions task teams developed Renewable Solutions roadmaps with goals and specific focus areas for each of our business groups: Global Cellulose Fibers, Industrial Packaging, EMEA Packaging.

By building out roadmaps for each business group, we established a baseline of practices to make progress toward our overarching Vision 2030 target: advancing circular solutions throughout our value chain and creating innovative products that are 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable. The roadmap for each business group is described in our report here.