Nordic Talc Oy has been accepted to join UN Global Compact

Nordic Talc Oy is pleased to announce that we have joined the United Nations Global Compact initiative — a voluntary leadership platform for the development, implementation, and disclosure of responsible business practices.

The UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Launched in 2000, the UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 15,000 companies and 3,000 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and more than 70 Local Networks.

“We are proud to join to the initiative and UN Global Compact Network Finland which is a significant step on our path towards more responsible business and it helps us to meet our responsibility promise to work for a more sustainable, fair and equal future.”, says CEO Erkki Kuronen.

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Nordic Talc and Kajave agreed on planning of a new power line connection

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