Finch Product Chart

All of our papers are elemental chlorine-free.

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Finch Premium Blend	30%
Finch Fine	10%
Finch Casa Opaque	30%
Finch Opaque	by request	.
Finch Fine iD	10%
Finch Fine Digital	10%
Finch Opaque Digital	by request	.
Finch Color Copier	10%

What we believe

Forests should be managed sustainably

• Finch Paper employs its own team of
  professional foresters who personally care for more than 180,000 acres
  of certified forests that provide wood to our mill—including more than
  160,000 acres owned by The Nature Conservancy.
• We are pleased that the woodlands we manage are certified for both
  Forest Management and Chain-of-Custody from the Forest Stewardship
  Council (SW-COC-000934) and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative
  (PcW-SFICOC-293). But it’s not like we had to take a special course in
  how to get certified—essentially, we said here’s what we’ve been doing,
  and they said good, keep it up.
• Healthy, growing forests also play a vital role in eliminating
  greenhouse gases from the environment by capturing and storing carbon
  dioxide. It is estimated that the forest under Finch management
  currently store more than 34 million tons of carbon dioxide—an amount
  that is growing by 128,000 tons per year.

Paper should come from local, responsibly managed forests

• None of the wood or pulp used to make Finch Paper comes from
  endangered or threatened forests. In fact, we make more than 75% of our
  pulp on our own premises, using wood from the forests that we manage,
  or wood purchased from other responsible landowners. We have a
  stringent chain-of-custody program in place to track the source of our
  wood and ensure that it comes from responsibly managed North American
  forests rather than from continents thousands of miles away. We believe
  that knowing firsthand where your paper fiber is sourced is a good
  first step in reducing your environmental impact.

Maximizing our use of green energy sources

• Approximately two-thirds of the energy used by Finch Paper comes
  from renewable, non-fossil fuel sources. We utilize the power of the
  Hudson River to produce emission-free, renewable electricity. We also
  operate a cogeneration facility that uses all the bark, sawdust and
  rejected wood chips we can find—ours as well as anyone else’s—to
  generate steam to dry our paper, and power to run our equipment.

  This energy flows directly to our manufacturing operations.

Taking innovative steps to reduce greenhouse gases

• We capture 50 million pounds per year of the greenhouse gas carbon
  dioxide from our processes before it is released to the environment and
  re-use it to make precipitated calcium carbonate, a brightening agent
  for paper. The emissions prevented are equivalent to conserving 2.5
  million gallons of gasoline. We also capture sulfur dioxide (a
  precursor to acid rain) to make cooking liquor in our pulping process.

Forestland should be saved from sprawl

• Our concept of a healthy forest is grounded in our belief that
  environmentally sound time harvesting is good for society, good for the
  forest, and good for the wildlife it sustains. For more than 100 years,
  we have selectively taken timber from forestlands we manage (less than
  2% per year) and at the same time, the forest has been continuously
  renewed with young trees that will grow to full maturity, maintaining a
  valuable ecosystem off-limits to developers.
• More than 75% of the forest landowners in the northeastern United
  States are private individuals or families. Rising property taxes and
  commercial opportunities create pressure on these landowners to sell or
  develop. We help them keep their forests as open space by providing a
  market for responsibly harvested wood and giving them guidance in
  responsible forest management.

Environmentally sound pulping

• All of the pulp made by Finch Paper, and our outside suppliers, is
  elemental chlorine free. The post-consumer fiber we purchase is process
  chlorine free.

Rules should be followed

• We are serious about our obligation to adhere to all Federal, New
  York State and Local laws, rules and regulations. By participating with
  many forest and government associations such as the Adirondack
  Landowners Association, the FSC Family Forest Alliance, and The Empire
  State Forest Products Association, we provide education to foresters
  and legislatures to keep the forests healthy, sustainable and
  productive.