Value's and Culture
This is the company's #1 priority, valued "above all else."
What is Safety?
These two international organizations certify that Smurfit Westrock's paper comes from responsibly managed forests.
What are FSC, PEFC, or SFI?
Safety glasses, hearing protection, hard hats, and steel toes boots are examples of these.
What is proper PPE (safety gear)?
This recovered fiber grade goes by the acronym OCC.
What is Old Corrugated Containers?
This is phase known by the acronym CTO.
What is Integrity?
Smurfit Westrock's business model of selling packaging to customers, collecting recycled commodities, and then remanufacturing them into new packaging is know as this.
What is the circular economy (closed loop model)?
This is the term for a "near miss" or an unsafe condition that is reported before an accident happens.
What is a Hazard Recognition (or Safety Observation)?
In North America, the company often procures wood from these individuals rather than companies or government land.
Who are private landowners?
What is the PAS system?
These are the four official shared values: Safety, Integrity, ________, and ________.
What are Respect and Loyalty?
Approximately 56% of Smurfit Westrock's global raw material comes from this fiber type.
What is recovered or recycled fiber?
This is the company's term for a group discussion that happens after a "Near Miss". Instead of a lecture, it's a "learning session" where employees explain what happened so everyone can prevent it next time.
What is an Operational Learning Event?
This is the accounting model that the recycle division converted to at the beginning of 2026.
What is the P&L Model?
This is the total CTO/productivity goal for the southern fiber supply division for 2026.
What is $10 million dollars?
This is the program used to understand root causes of safety incidents and near misses. It goes by the acronym "HOP".
What is Human Organizational Performance?
Smurfit Westrock doesn't just recycle paper; they also capture this "Green" byproduct of the pulping process to create renewable energy for their mills.
What is Black Liquor (or biomass)?
These are the 6 types of work conditions that are emphasized due to known safety risks, such as "working from heights" or "energy isolation".
What are high risk tasks (Hazard Hunter Program)?
Fiber procurement teams use these volume/cost charts to inform contract negotiation and purchasing decisions.
What are cost curves?
This fiber procurement region generated the most CTO savings in 2025?
What is the Florence region?
This is the Smurfit Westrock sponsored charity that's specifically designed to help employees who are facing financial hardship due to natural or man-made disasters?
What is the Employee Relief Fund?
This multi-step process acts as a "paper trail," tracking wood fiber from a certified forest, through the mill, to the box plant, ensuring that the final product can legally carry an FSC or PEFC logo.
What is Chain of Custody?
The new corporate Hazard Hunter's program focuses on these 6 high-risk areas.
What are Contact with Machines, Energy Isolation, People and Vehicles, Material and Chemical Handling, Working at Heights, Contractor Management?
This is the specific term for recovered paper that has been used by a consumer, recycled, and then turned back into a new product?
What is Post-Consumer Waste?
This is the total cost take out goal for the full Fiber Supply division in 2026.
What is $45M