IN a world where everything can be thrown away, one company in the Philippines has seen an opportunity from piles of waste papers.
Quanta Paper Corp., for 11 years now, is giving waste paper a chance for a second life.
“When I first came to the Philippines, I saw that there were just many waste papers everywhere and it was not organized. I saw the opportunity from these to produce hygienic tissue paper products,” recalled Quanta Paper President and General Manager Steven Leung. “And that was how Quanta started.”
Quanta Paper has grown to be one of the major players in this industry, which was once controlled and dominated by global companies.
In December 2013 Quanta Paper’s presence across the Philippines has reached 25,000 products.
With its diversified products and brands portfolio, it is impossible for anyone not to find any among those hygienic and family-care products even at the remotest areas in the Philippines, be it in the Mountain Province in the north or in Tawi-Tawi in the south.
Quanta Paper serves and supplies eco-friendly and hygienic tissue-paper products to major malls, government offices and institutions, and hotels and restaurants nationwide. But, no matter how big the company aims to be, what is truly admiring is that it remains committed to its heritage of sustainable business practices. “We strike a balance between profit and social conscience,” Leung explained. Which is why it is not surprising that new products that are emerging in its brands portfolio are capped with brand proposition and sales-marketing about environmental conservation and climate action.
It recently launched its new sanitary napkin with its aspiration to empower women to take action on climate change, a hygienic solution, which will help them perform their role in this pressing issue despite the challenges they face during their red days. In August Quanta Paper went out by organizing R3RUN or Run for Sustainability, so it could be more visible and share what is admirable in the company, which has found the opportunity in waste papers others consider of no use. Over 10,000 Filipinos from all walks of life have participated in this run.
What the company currently foresees are more opportunities—in new customer acquisition, new product development and new ways to preserve and conserve the environment, and enrich the lives of the community where it operates.
Quanta Paper, which has emerged into over 600 workforce, is contributing significantly in employment and the eventual growth of the nation’s economy.