SGLS

Pulp & Paper

The Enhanced Pulp and Paper category establishes the criteria for the scope of pulp and paper products covered below. The category has been recently revised and effective on 18 June 2019.

The following pulp and paper products will be covered within the scope of the certification:

Printing, hygiene, stationery & office automation papers, folios and reels.
Products up to 300 gsm supplied in cut reams and used for digital printing, desktop publishing and photocopying in an office environment.
Printed paper products, such as newspaper, advertising materials, magazines and journals, with at least 90% paper content by weight. Inserts, covers and any other printed paper on the product shall be considered to be part of the printed paper product.
Products made of newspapers, magazines, supplements, catalogue and prospectuses.

In addition, this category will be extended to the product group “Converted Paper Products”, which
shall comprise the following products:

Envelopes and paper carrier bags that consist of at least 90% by weight of paper, paperboard
or paper-based substrates;
Stationery paper products that consist of at least 70% by weight of paper, paperboard or paperbased substrates, except for suspension files and folders with metal fastener subcategories.

In the case of stationery paper products, the plastic component cannot exceed 10% except for ring binders, exercise books, notebooks, diaries, and lever arch files where the plastic weight cannot exceed 13%.

Furthermore, the metal weight cannot exceed 30g per product except for suspension files, folders with metal fasteners and ring binders where it can be up to 50g and except for lever arch files, where it can up to 120g.

The product group shall not include the following products:

Packaging products, except for paper carrier bags

This category is ISO 17065 accredited by Singapore Accreditation Council (SAC). For more information on SAC accreditation, please refer to https://www.sac-accreditation.gov.sg/