Cal Poly Student-run In-plant Renews FSC Certification

Cal Poly’s student-run printing, publishing and imaging company, University Graphic Systems (UGS), received Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) sustainability re-certification. UGS has held this certification for five years and is the only student organization of its kind in the nation to hold it.

UGS, which employs 14 student managers (including a sustainability manager) and approximately 75 interns, undergoes a yearly audit to maintain certification and ensure it abides by the standards provided by the Rain Forest Alliance, the FSC’s certification body. An audit report documented that UGS is in compliance on all 18 FSC standards.