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Introduction
Corporate Ethics, also known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) highlights the voluntary role of Ciparo's business in contributing to a better society and a cleaner environment beyond its financial and capital commitments.
Ciparo has the obligation to help society with its problems by offering various kinds of resources.
The four pillars of CSR for Ciparo are environmental practices, community investment, employee relations and ethical conduct.
In the next paragraphs we are explaining the (small) role Ciparo played and will try to play in the future with respect to CSR.
Environmental Practices
Ciparo is an environmental orientated company, active in the purchase and sales of recyclable raw materials in countries with a shortage of natural resources. To avoid any further exhaustion of natural recourses, recycling is a good substitution. Ciparo purchases materials from all over the world and ships this to China. In the future Ciparo will also export from China to the rest of the world.
From the middle of the nineties China is buying more and more recycled papers from all over the world to feed their paper industry. During the last years big paper making machines from western manufactures have been installed in China and the need for fiber is bigger than ever before. Most machines run on imported pulp and domestic or imported reclaimed paper. The import of pulp and recycled papers is saving the Chinese (bamboo) forests and is a big blessing for the Chinese environment, since there is no alternative except more pollution and more logging. So the (recycled) fibers which Ciparo sells to the paper mills in China save the Chinese environment and the Chinese animals that live in it like the famous panda.
Furthermore Ciparo is welcoming that the Chinese government is looking at the import increase very anxiously. The import of waste paper with contamination above the Chinese standard is strictly prohibited and this is checked by dedicated Chinese inspectors in the country of shipment and Chinese inspectors the port of arrival. Ciparo has all the relevant export and import licenses and sticks to all the rules that are implemented by the Chinese government. Containers for export from Dutch harbors to China are frequently checked by random sample testing by both Dutch and Chinese authorities on quality. For maintaining a clean record over all these years, Ciparo received a Declaration of Good Behavior from the Dutch Ministry of Justice on 2 June 2004. Furthermore all clientele in China are licensed by NEPA (National Environmental Protection Agency) and therefore all take great care in complying with environmental regulations. Besides this, the NIWO (Nationale en Internationale Wegvervoer Organisatie) issued Ciparo a certificate for the handling of waste. NIWO is part of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Urban Planning & Environmental Control and stands for National and International Road Transport Organization. It allows Ciparo to transport, collect, mediate and negotiate industrial- and hazardous waste.
Community Investment
From the beginning Ciparo's Board of Directors has enjoyed being active in a number of social community related events. Such as fund raising to contribute to development projects for the disabled or people living in poverty areas.
Tibet By Bike
For the construction of a primary solar heated boarding school for 400
children in Dorfuton Township, Tseku County, Eastern Tibet, a group of
Dutch businessmen, in the first two weeks of June 2001, cycled from
Lhasa (Tibet) to Katmandu (Nepal).The group in front of the world famous Potala, former residence of the Dalai Lama and symbol of Tibet.
Ciparo Beijing office manager Thijs Cox participated in this journey of a 1000 km that took them through raw nature, past beautiful temples and over mountain passes of more than 5.000 meters altitude. Apart from participation to raise more funds, Ciparo also sponsored this cycling event. The plans for the primary school were realized with the money that was raised. The new school is now able to enroll around 200 students, bringing it to a total of 400 and can expand its educational system to 9 years.
Left: Festive opening of the school with Tunga, the local Lama. Right: the new school
Now there are lodging facilities to house all students at the school, which is necessary for the children who mainly all come from nomad families. Also, the school can now stay open during the winter. Due to the use of environmentally friendly solar energy annually fuel expenses can be saved and put to better purpose. To read about the tour and all the good moments they shared but also the hardships they endured to achieve their goal, please visit TibetByBike.com
Braille without Borders, Marathon of Rotterdam.
Another initiative was the Marathon of Rotterdam on the 4th of April 2004.Ciparo managers Thijs Cox and Joris de Caluwé participated and raised money for a project called "Project for the Blind" by Braille without Borders. Ciparo before already donated a load of Braille paper. Photo left: Joris and Thijs showing off their medals after completing the more than 42 kilometers in Rotterdam.
Photo left: Joris and Thijs showing off their medals after completing the more than 42 kilometers in Rotterdam.
The foundation is set up by Sabrye Tenberken from Germany, who is blind herself. Somewhat later she got assistance from Paul Kronenberg of The Netherlands. (picture right).Together they now help Tibetan blind children to read the Braille script and teach them a profession. This enables them to make a reasonable living for themselves later in life, instead of being highly dependant on others.
The Dutch government recently also made it possible for them to have a cheese farm, to teach the children how to make cheese.
For more information on Braille without Borders, please visit their website at BrailleWithoutBorders.org
Chodon Orphanage in Tibet
At the moment we are helping out the Chodon orphanage in Lhasa, Tibet. By monthly financial donation as well as clothing for the upcoming winter and toys we try to give some extra support.Also toys for the children, who are between the ages of 8 and 16, are being collected to send over to them.
If you would like to contribute to this initiative, email us at info@ciparo.nl
Employee Relations
Employee Relations may be defined as those policies and practices which are concerned with the management and regulation of relationships between the organization, the individual staff member and groups of staff within the working environment. Employees value working for companies that stand for more than just the corporate bottom line. Ciparo and its Chinese affiliate, Golden Windmill, who registered in the Tianjin Free Trade Zone, apply the right ethical standards. Ciparo employs about 50 people in its Chinese subsidiaries. All of our employees finished either university (mainly all our sales people) or another professional education (accountants and cashiers). Ciparo has fully committed itself to the labor laws and regulations. On top of their salary and bonus every employee receives monthly housing fees, medical insurance, pension fund, and unemployment fees. Also private income tax is deducted.
Ethical Conduct
Corporate ethics imply the company's values and conduct in moral questions like human rights, child labor, employee working conditions, corruption and intellectual rights etc. It's about making choices based on the consequences of your actions. Awareness that a company should not only justify its actions to its shareholders, but should also comply with the law and be considerate of its other stakeholders like employees, creditors, consumers and society at large. Ciparo acknowledges, respects and supports the principles agreed upon by the United Nations called UN Global Compact as well as the more specific guidelines for multi-national enterprises of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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