​Transformation

As a company headquartered in South Africa, with significant assets and people, transformation is an important component of our reputation and licence to trade. We recognise that transformation is not just a moral imperative, but a pragmatic growth strategy that aims to realise the country’s full economic potential while helping to bring the black majority into the economic mainstream. Our focus, in terms of BBBEE, is to make a meaningful difference.

In 2018 we achieved a Level Three Contributor status for Sappi Limited and a Level Two Contributor status for Sappi Southern Africa Limited in BBBEE in respect of the new Forestry Codes gazetted on 21 April 2017.

In 2010, Sappi implemented a broad-based empowerment share ownership scheme (24.3 million shares). Today, 45.66% of our Southern African business is owned by black people.

Sappi supports the vision of a transformed, sustainable and growing forest products sector that contributes meaningfully to the South African economy. To this end, we are committed to the transformation mandate that is embedded in the Forest Sector Transformation Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) codes.

In respect of procurement we encourage suppliers when being measured by the BBBEE codes to:
• Be an empowered supplier
• Have at least a Level 4 status BBBEE certificate
• Have at least 50% black ownership, and
• Have at least 30% black women ownership.

For more information on the Sappi Supplier Portal and how to register, please click here.

In addition, our ReFibre model is an outsourced business model involving the collection and recycling of post-convertor and post-consumer waste, which is procured from homes, offices, wholesalers and retailers, as well as manufacturers, by an extensive network of independent agents across the country. Our outsourced baling suppliers have over 4,000 informal previously disadvantaged collectors linked to our network.