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When a company’s CEO is given the honour of blowing the metre-long kudu antelope horn at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), it not only signals the ritual opening of the local financial market. It also marks the celebration of success – in this case, Sappi’s re-entry to the JSE Top 40 Index, as well as our 80th year of being listed on the JSE.

Pulp and paper company Sappi has said that it was planning to increase its dissolving wood capacity by more than 30 percent in the next four years to extract maximum value from the wood fibre value chain.

Sappi Limited is pleased to announce that it will bolster its biorefining expertise through the acquisition of the Xylex® and Versalac® technologies owned by Plaxica Limited.

Dass der Digitaldruck andere Anforderungen an den Bedruckstoff Papier stellt als beispielsweise der Offsetdruck, steht außer Frage. Deutscher Drucker befragt Maurice van Duuren, Manager Print & Quality Development beim Hersteller von Feinpapieren Sappi Europe, nach seiner Meinung zur Entwicklung des Papiermarktes für den Digitaldruck sowie nach der Strategie von Sappi hinsichtlich Entwicklung und Einsatz von Digitaldruckpapieren.

Starting in December 2016, and continuing for at least the next 20 years, industrial waste heat from Gratkorn Mill will be used to heat 18,000 households in the city of Graz, 9km away.

Sappi Europe and Felix Schoeller Group, Osnabrück, have entered into a collaboration agreement that includes the joint development of sustainable barrier paper solutions for flexible packaging applications.

Steffen Wurdinger, Mill Director Ehingen, has taken up the position of Vice President Manufacturing, R&D and Technology Sappi Europe from January 1st , 2017 and has become a member of the European Management Team.

RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products industry, today announced that Berry Wiersum, Chief Executive Officer of Sappi Europe SA has been named RISI’s 2017 European CEO of the Year. RISI will present this award at the European Conference, which will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands from March 6-8, 2017.

Corporate report. When a plan comes together. Hard work has finally paid off for the company, performance improvement on all counts.

The company’s innovations focus on developing bio-compostable products and processes that reduce waste