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SAPPI LIMITED

www.sappi.com

SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE RESOURCES
Sappi is a global diversified woodfibre company
focused on providing dissolving wood pulp, specialities
and packaging papers, printing and writing papers, as
well as biomaterials and biochemicals to our direct and
indirect customer base across more than 150 countries.
Our dissolving wood pulp products are used worldwide
by converters to create viscose fibre for fashionable
clothing and textiles, pharmaceutical products, as
well as a wide range of consumer and household
products. Quality specialities and packaging papers
are used in the manufacture of such products as soup
sachets, luxury carry bags, cosmetic and confectionery
packaging, boxes for agricultural products for export,
tissue wadding for household tissue products and
casting and release papers used by suppliers to
the fashion, textiles, automobile and household
industries. Our market-leading range of coated and
uncoated graphic paper products are used by printers
in the production of books, brochures, magazines,
catalogues, direct mail, newspapers and many other
print applications.
The wood and pulp needed for our products is either
produced within Sappi or brought from accredited
suppliers. Across the group, Sappi is close to ‘pulp
neutral’, meaning that we sell almost as much pulp as
we buy.
Our industry is on the cusp of a period of unprecedented
change and we’re at the forefront of technological
innovation. By investing in an ambitious programme of
research and development, we’ll continue to unlock the
true potential of sustainable renewable resources, with
woodfibre at our core. This commitment means we can
diversify our product offering and meet future demand
in areas such as bio-energy and pharmaceuticals in this
current carbon-constrained age.
Sappi Southern Africa
Sappi Southern Africa operates four mills and has a
combined production capacity of 690,000 tons of
paper, 670,000 tons of paper pulp and over a million
tons of dissolving wood pulp per annum.
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