DEQP Granted Environment-Friendly Award to Qualified Saa Paper Producers

Department of Environmental Quality Promotion (DEQP), Chiang Mai University, Thai Industrial Standards Institute, Regional Environment Office 1, Industrial Promotion Region 1, Provincial Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Provincial Industrial Office and GTZ have collaboratively implemented the “Promotion of Environmentally Friendly Saa Paper” project since 2005. The objective of the project is to persuade saa paper producers to improve the production process standards by adopting clean, environmental-friendly production process. The project has provided consultations on the improvement of the production process, conducted monitoring and evaluation of saa paper producers to select the establishments that meet the environmental-friendly criteria and awarded environment-friendly product labels, which they can use to market their products. During 2007, more than 30 saa paper producers participated in the project. Monitoring and evaluation of these establishments revealed that 6 saa paper producers in Chiang Mai, Phrae and Lampang met the environmental-friendly criteria. Consequently, DEQP awarded them with plaques and certificates on January 16, 2008. The “Promotion of Environmentally Friendly Saa Paper” project took the opportunity in the award presentation ceremony to publicize its workplan for 2008 to promote adoption of environment-friendly production process and to establish an implementation network to share knowledge and experiences among project participants.