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SUSTAINABILITY Sustainability is at the heart of everything that Sappi does Sappi Europe has just launched the brand new website sappipositivity.com. It celebrates sustainability and showcases why it’s at the heart of everything Sappi does. Sappi continually invests in the surrounding environment, the communities Sappi works in, and the people and partners that it does business with. In this way, Sappi constantly strives to build a prosperous future for everyone involved. Take a walk on the Green paper trail and discover Sappi’s product lifecycle, from forest to pulp, paper to print, and see how Sappi tries to have a positive impact on its environment. Get inspired by the Positivity stories and read interesting facts and figures about how unexploited land can improve life, why Sappi doesn’t irrigate plantations and learn that Europe’ s forest area has increased by almost 17 million hectares in the past 20 years. Care for more? Then be the first to click here and visit www.sappipositivity.com. Our World in 2050 Is a wood-based World possible? Sappi Europe reflects on how wood may be the key to a sustainable future. If Europe wants to break its dependence on fossil fuels, it has to develop its use of wood. … and the European paper industry has a vision of how to do that. Fast forward to 2050. You wake up in a 20-storey wooden apartment building and get up from beneath the warmth of a wood-fibre blanket. In the bathroom you use lignin chemistry based cosmetics and put on your viscose staple fibre clothes before you sit down at the breakfast table to pour cereal from a paper box into a bio-composite bowl and coffee into the bio-polymer cup. You take the bus to work. It is powered with biofuel derived from bio-refinery residues. The passing cars are made of bio-composites derived from wood, as are the PCs and printers at your office. Your mobile phone uses paperbased batteries and you give your presentations on a fibre screen of more than 80 per cent cellulose. In the evening you check your online food shopping has been delivered in good condition, packed in paperboard or cardboard boxes. Then you watch a film on your nano fibre-based TV. Making the vision a reality Unrealistic? Not according to the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI). In its report, Unfold the Future, it argues that this is not only possible but necessary: wood-derived materials must become a central part of our lives if the European Union is to become a low-carbon economy by 2050. 8
PULP Pricing - Confidence regained (by Dougal Pitt, Commercial Manager Pulp) Over the past few months, paper grade market pulp producers have announced price increases for all grades of pulp being sold into key global markets. Over the past few months, paper grade market pulp producers have announced price increases for all grades of pulp being sold into key global markets. We believe that these initiatives, in Western Europe and North America particularly, have helped bring to an end the erosion of value that has been a part of the market for five consecutive quarters. However, we are mindful that seasonal factors are typically supportive of positive price moves at this time of year and certainly the recent weakness of the US dollar has been modestly supportive of improved pulp pricing. The question that we all have of course is whether or not these price gains will prove short lived in nature. By calendar year end 850,000 tons of softwood and 1.5 million tons of hardwood paper grade market pulp capacity is expected to be commissioned, with further expansions planned for 2013. Confidence amongst pulp producers is fueled by the notable rise in volumes shipped to China since August. Furthermore, Stocks at European pulp converters are relatively low and suppliers claim that there has been little sign of oversupply in the market. Moreover, stocks at pulp producers are below that held during the previous year. In addition, demand for pulp has been growing at a regular pace in 2012, much Source: PPPC as it has for several years, despite weaknesses in the economies of Europe and the USA. So we foresee some success by market pulp suppliers in boosting their prices not only because costs remain a key long term driver. Now, just as in the past, pulp is strongly correlated to commodity cycles as well as relative rates of exchange between sellers currencies and those of buyers. The graphic provided by the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC) in October 2012 depicting shipments per month for 2011 and for the year-todate September 2012 illustrates the gain in demand. 9
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