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Dedicated by nature!

Training tomorrow’s leaders while using sustainable resources responsibly

The spectacular growth of Kruger Inc. since 1984 has had a positive effect on the economic development of Quebec, preserving and creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs in regions often affected by a high rate of unemployment.

Kruger Inc. has adopted policies that support research in the fields of forestry and pulp and paper, in order to ensure the sustainable development of the resource, and has established programs that support literacy and higher education. The company’s commitment to the university milieu has promoted the development of highly-skilled individuals, from which Kruger has had the privilege of recruiting a large number of talented specialists and managers.

To become a leader in the international pulp and paper industry is an achievement, but the links the company has developed with the world of education and research are truly remarkable.

Kruger’s participation in literacy and education

Newspaper in Education Program
Since 1989, Kruger has participated in the international “Newspaper in Education” program, which was set up in 1955 to promote using newspapers in the classroom as learning tools for reading, spelling and writing. The company offers $25 per 100 metric tons of newsprint sold to all customers who participate in this program. These donations are made through the Gene H. Kruger Fund.

Gene-H.-Kruger Scholarship Fund
Sherbrooke University
Kruger has been established as a major company in the Sherbrooke area for nearly 50 years, and the Company made a substantial donation to the 1988-92 University of Sherbrooke Financing Campaign to create an endowment fund bearing the name of its founder, Mr. Gene H. Kruger. The scholarships for excellence generated by this fund are awarded to second-year students studying chemistry or chemical engineering.

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Laval University – Québec City
Kruger and its affiliated companies are active participants in educational institution communities. For example, for the past 15 years, students in the forestry faculty of Laval University have been organizing annual colloquia sponsored entirely by the Company, as a part of Forest Sciences Week.

 

Scholarships
In all regions where Kruger and its affiliated companies carry on their business activities, study scholarships are offered to students in administration, science, chemistry, physics and engineering, including forestry engineering and pulp and paper studies, using the Gene-H.-Kruger Fund, which was created to support emerging knowledge and advances in research. The scholarships for excellence that this fund generates are awarded to second-year students studying chemistry and chemical engineering.

Thus Kruger has created partnerships with many educational institutions, including:

    • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
    • Bishop’s University
    • Université de Sherbrooke
    • McGill University
    • École Polytechnique de Montréal
    • Université Laval
    • Ryerson Polytechnical Institute of
      Toronto
    • University of British Columbia
    • Simon Fraser University
    • Memorial University
      (Newfoundland and Labrador)
    • Institut des communications graphiques
      du Québec
    • Canadian Printing Association
    • Fonds de la relève de l'industrie
      graphique
    • Cégep de Trois-Rivières
    • Cégep du Vieux-Montréal
    • Séminaire de Sherbrooke
    • Collège Laflèche (T.-R.)
    • College of North Atlantic, District 3
      School Board (TNL)
    • Collège boréal Northern Ontario

 

Kruger Inc.’s Outreach Activities

Kruger Products Limited
A proud sponsor of women’s curling...
The Scotties® Tournament of HeartsTM holds the record for the longest-standing sponsorship in women’s amateur sports. To learn all about participating in Kruger Products’ Scotties® Tournament of HeartsTM, click on: http://www.stoh.ca

Proud supporters of the Canadian Breast Cancer Society...
Kruger Products contributes to creating a future without breast cancer. To learn how Kruger Products supports the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, go to:
http://www.krugerproducts.ca/english/proud_supporter.html

 

Gannett Corp. repays Kruger,
who passes it on…
In December 2006, the students of Bedford school in the Côte-des-Neiges area of Montreal, a school that is near Kruger’s head office, benefited from a $10,000 donation, which our company had received from Gannett Corp. when our Publication Papers business unit was awarded their prize for the best supplier of the year.
In a letter of November 29 to Mr. Joseph Kruger II, Mrs. Hélène Bourdages, Director of Bedford School, and Mrs. Édith Blain, chair of the school’s board, thanked him for his generosity to the students of Bedford School, a neighbour of Kruger’s head office.

“Bedford School is a well-known institution in our city and we are proud to see that there is a golden and joyous link along Bedford Road between our two institutions. Thanks to your generosity, we will be able to provide our students with a multimedia room, supplied with state-of-the-art equipment, including a giant screen and loudspeakers like the ones in the cinema. A sum of $500 will be used to buy school supplies for students whose families cannot afford them.”


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