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. Ciparo will also increase its 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 European harbors to China are frequently checked by random sample testing by both European 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.
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, which is registered in the Tianjin Free Trade Zone, apply the right ethical standards. Ciparo employs about 70 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. 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. Moreover, Ciparo supports the more specific guidelines for multi-national enterprises of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).