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MONDI LIMITED (SOUTH AFRICA)

CEO: Vivien McMenamin
www.mondigroup.com
consumer packaging solutions. Sustainability is
ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE TOGETHER,
embedded in everything Mondi does, with clearly
EVERY DAY defined commitments across ten action areas.
Mondi Group is an international packaging and paper Innovative technologies and products can be found
group, employing over 26 000 people across more in applications including hygiene components, stand-
than 30 countries. The company’s key operations up pouches, super-strong cement bags, clever retail
are located in central Europe, Russia, North America boxes and office paper.
and South Africa and its corporate offices are in
Johannesburg, London and Vienna. Mondi Group Key customers are in industries such as automotive;
offers over 100 packaging and paper products, building and construction; chemicals; food and
customised into more than 100 000 different solutions beverage; home and personal care; medical and
for customers, end consumers and industrial end users pharmaceutical; packaging and paper converting; pet
– touching the lives of millions of people every day. In care; and office and professional printing.
2017, Mondi had revenues of €7.1 billion and a return on
capital employed of 19.7%. Mondi South Africa
Mondi South Africa has three strategic value drivers
The Group is fully integrated across the packaging for its business. These are maintaining a high-
and paper value chain – from managing forests and quality, low cost asset base, keeping a strong focus
producing pulp, paper and compound plastics, to on performance and the development of its people.
developing effective and innovative industrial and In South Africa, the business manages upstream
forestry operations, and manufactures and sells
arange of pulp, virgin containerboard, uncoated
fine paper (UFP) and newsprint products.
The Merebank Mill
The Merebank Mill produces a range of office paper
products including the premium South African brand,
Mondi Rotatrim. A range of uncoated woodfree reels
for the South African and sub-Saharan African markets
are also produced.
Uncoated woodfree paper is produced using fibre
from responsible wood sources.
The Richards Bay Mill
The Richards Bay mill commissioned in 1984 produces
two key products: Baycel, a premier grade bleached
hardwood pulp made from 100-percent eucalyptus
fibre, and Baywhite, a white top kraft linerboard.
Both Baycel pulp and Baywhite linerboard are FSC®
Chain of Custody certified (SGS-CoC-000359; License
number FSC-C017573), giving to customers the
confidence of using products that are produced using
wood from certified responsibly managed forests.

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