Silver success for JBS Cascavel
12/01/2012
LWG is a multi-stakeholder group that assesses the environmental performance of tanneries and awards gold, silver and bronze status to those achieving the best results. It was formed as a collaboration between footwear brands and tanneries to assess the compliance and environmental performance of tanners and to promote sustainable and appropriate environmental business practices in the leather industry.
On the subject of traceability, the auditors gave the Cascavel facility an A grading. JBS emphasised this because of a dispute it became involved in last October with campaign group Greenpeace. Using information from the federal government, Greenpeace said that JBS had, during the first five months of this year, sourced cattle from farms that use illegally deforested land or land reserved for indigenous peoples to graze livestock. The farms in question are in the state of Mato Grosso. JBS immediately refuted the claims and said the government and Greenpeace had not checked their information.
“Traceability is an important part of the leather division and to receive grade A demonstrates its commitment in the supply chain,” JBS said in a statement. “The award proves that JBS’s traceability system has the right tools to trace its raw materials from the finished leather, back to the slaughterhouse and supplier farms.”
The Cascavel unit has a production capacity of 200,000 hides month, and is focused on the footwear and upholstery segments.
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