Our performance in 2009 - Sappi

Sappi Saiccor
Sappi Forests
2009 annual report 37
Mills/ Capacity
factories/ (’000 tons)
Divisions plantations Products produced Paper Pulp Employees*
Sappi Kraft
Cape Kraft Mill Waste-based linerboard and corrugating medium 60
Ngodwana Mill Unbleached kraft pulp for own consumption,
bleached chemical pulp for own consumption
and market pulp 410
Mechanical pulp for own consumption 100
Kraft and white top linerboard 240
Newsprint 140
Tugela Mill Unbleached kraft and semi-chemical pulp
for own consumption 350
Kraft linerboard and corrugating medium 300
Other kraft packaging paper 90 2,240
Usutu Mill** Unbleached kraft market pulp 190 560
Total Sappi Kraft 830 1,050 2,800
Saiccor Mill Chemical cellulose 800 1,220
Capacity/
hectares
’000
KwaZulu Natal Plantations (pulpwood and sawlogs)*** 220ha
Mpumalanga Plantations (pulpwood and sawlogs)*** 241ha
Usutu Mill** Plantations (pulpwood)*** 66ha
Sawmills Sawn timber 85m³ 1,130
*** Rounded to nearest 10.
*** Usutu Mill announced possible closure in October 2009.
*** Plantations include title deed and lease area as well as projects.
Total Sappi Forest Products 830 1,850 5,150
Sappi Forest Products, based in Southern Africa, produces nearly two million tons of pulp.
The business is a significant net seller of pulp and together with the North American net
surplus provides a pulp revenue stream that effectively hedges most of the purchases of
pulp by our European business. This virtually eliminates the group’s overall exposure to
changes in world pulp prices.
Sappi Saiccor is the world’s largest manufacturer of chemical cellulose and has one of the
lowest-cost positions. The uses of chemical cellulose are wide-ranging and include producing
viscose and lyocell fibres, moulding powders, cellophane, cellulose acetate for filter tow, and
micro crystalline cellulose and ethers for pharmaceutical and food applications.
Sappi Kraft makes bleached and unbleached kraft pulp, containerboard, packaging paper
and newsprint.
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