Chemainus Sawmill First Weyerhaeuser Manufacturing Facility to Achieve ISO 14001 EMS Certification

Business Wire, Oct 3, 2000

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2000

Weyerhaeuser's Chemainus sawmill on Vancouver Island has been certified to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) standard.

It is the company's first manufacturing site to reach this milestone. Registration followed a thorough independent audit by the Quality Management Institute, a division of the Canadian Standards Association.

Established under the auspices of the International Organization for Standardization, ISO 14001 registration recognizes organizations whose environmental management systems meet the comprehensive requirements of this internationally recognized standard.

"This certification reinforces our strong commitment to continual improvement and to ensure that we have systems in place to manage the significant environmental aspects of our operations," said Bill Gaynor, president, Weyerhaeuser Company Limited in Canada. "Our entire Chemainus team is to be congratulated, in particular Chris Hardy, EMS coordinator and Al Dewar, unit manager. They worked diligently over the past several months to achieve ISO 14001 registration."

"This is an important step in fulfilling Weyerhaeuser's commitment to align all of its timberlands and manufacturing operations to the ISO 14001 standard by 2005," said Steven R. Rogel, Weyerhaeuser chairman, president and chief executive officer. "This international standard is well suited to our large-scale timberlands and manufacturing operations in the United States, Canada and the Southern Hemisphere. It will help ensure that reliable processes are in place in our operations to improve our environmental performance and to meet regulatory and stakeholder requirements in the years ahead."

On the forestry side, several Weyerhaeuser North American timberlands operations plan to complete EMS implementation by 2002. Decisions regarding independent certification of specific businesses is determined by each business based on customer or other stakeholder requirements. The company's Canadian timberlands operations expect to have all units third party certified to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System standard by 2002 and to the Canadian Standards Association's Sustainable Forest Management system standard by 2003.

More than 2.9 million hectares (7.17 million acres) of the timberlands Weyerhaeuser manages in British Columbia, Alberta and New Zealand have already been certified to the ISO 14001 EMS standard.

Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE:WY), one of the world's largest integrated forest products companies, was incorporated in 1900. In 1999, sales were Cdn$18.1 billion, (US$12.3 billion). It has offices or operations in 13 countries, with customers worldwide. Weyerhaeuser is principally engaged in the growing and harvesting of timber; the manufacture, distribution and sale of forest products; and real estate construction, development and related activities. Weyerhaeuser Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary, has Exchangeable Shares listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol WYL (TSE:WYL). Additional information about Weyerhaeuser's businesses, products or practices is available at www.weyerhaeuser.com.