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Papierfabrikant Sappi op de Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen neemt nog deze maand een proeffabriek in gebruik voor de productie van nano-cellulose. Voor Math Jennekens, directeur R&D en geboren Geleendenaar, een droom die uitkomt. “Dit is het materiaal van de toekomst.”

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.

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.

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