Our global headquarters in Johannesburg (South Africa), manages all our Sappi Paper & Packaging, Sappi Pulp and Sappi Forests. A number of regional functions like finance, human resources, sales and marketing, technical and engineering as well as board functions are also based here.

Sappi was formed in South Africa in 1936 to serve South African consumers with local produced paper. We have a tradition of innovating and developing new products to meet local demand for newsprint, graphic papers, packaging papers, containerboard - used to protect our customers’ products (especially in the agricultural sector) - and tissue paper for household, medical and industrial use in the Southern Africa region.

Almost all of the production of our mills in South Africa is exported. Sappi Southern Africa operates five mills and has a combined production capacity of 86,000 m³ sawn timber, 660,000 tons of paper, 636,000 tons of paper pulp and 1.15 million tons of dissolving wood pulp per annum.