TimBar's New Oxford Facility SFI Certified.

August 7, 2009 (New Oxford, PA): TimBar's New Oxford Facility SFI Certified. TimBar Packaging & Display has achieved certification to the independent Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) fiber sourcing standard for its New Oxford, Pennsylvania facility.

Jim Simpson, VP / Area General Manager stated, "At TimBar Packaging & Display, we have a strong commitment to our forests and so do our customers. SFI fiber sourcing certification plays an important role in our environmental policy and empowers our customers to make an educated environmental choice about the corrugated packaging they buy."

With more than 160 million acres certified across North America, the non-profit SFI sustainable forest certification program is one of the largest in the world, with a standard based on principles and measures that promote responsible environmental behavior and sound forest management including measures to protect water quality, biodiversity, wildlife habitat, species at risk and forests of exceptional conservation value.

About SFI Inc.

SFI Inc. is a 501c(3) non-profit charitable organization, and is solely responsible for maintaining, overseeing and improving the Sustainable Forestry Initiative program (www.sfiprogram.org), which is internationally recognized and among the largest in the world. It is one of the fastest-growing forest certification programs with over 160 million acres (65 million hectares) of SFI-certified forests across North America. The SFI Standard also includes unique fiber sourcing requirements that promote responsible forest management on all suppliers' lands and a chain-of-custody certification, which can communicate to buyers how much certified fiber is in a specific product. The SFI forest standard is endorsed by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes, a global umbrella organization that has strict requirements for endorsement. SFI Inc. is governed by a three-chamber board of directors representing environmental, social and economic sectors equally.

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