Sappi
| Sappi Limited
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| legal form | Limited |
| ISIN | ZAE000006284 |
| founding | 1936 |
| Seat | Johannesburg , South Africa |
| management | Stephen Robert Binnie |
| Number of employees | approx 12,800 |
| sales | $ 5.4 billion |
| Branch | Pulp and paper |
| Website | sappi.com |
Sappi Limited is a global pulp and paper company of South African origin. The company is located in Johannesburg , in the Braamfontein district . The company is divided into five main business areas: Sappi Fine Paper , Sappi Forest Products , Sappi Specialized Cellulose , Sappi Paper and Paper Packaging and Sappi Trading . It employs around 12,800 people worldwide.
history
Sappi was founded in December 1936 as South African Pulp and Paper Industries Limited . From this name, minus the company / legal form Limited, derives from the first letters the name "SAPPI", which is essentially in use today and has been officially used since the name change in 1973. The first paper and pulp mill was built near Springs in South Africa. In 1980 the Sappi Timber Products division was formed to specialize in the sawmill sector. Through numerous acquisitions, Sappi grew into a global player in the paper market. In 1992 the German paper manufacturer Hannover Papier was bought and incorporated into the group. This made Sappi one of the largest European manufacturers of coated wood-free paper overnight. In 1997 the takeover of KNP-Leykam followed with plants in Belgium, the Netherlands (formerly KNP) and Austria (formerly Leykam). In 2002 the company acquired the coated fine papers business of Potlatch Corporation .
The group is on the stock exchanges of New York and Johannesburg stock exchanges.
Today Sappi is the largest employer in Gratkorn , Mandeni and Alfeld (Leine) .
On September 29, 2008, the company announced the signing of a contract to take over the business area for coated graphic paper from M-real - with the exception of the M-real business in South Africa. Sappi took over four paper mills for coated graphic paper in Kirkniemi and Kangasniemi in Finland , Stockstadt am Main in Germany and Biberist in Switzerland, but the latter was closed at the end of August 2011.
At the end of 2014, the first long-planned restructuring measures took effect, including direct business with "Sappi & You". This is a distribution variant in which direct contact is sought with the manufacturing industry instead of selling the paper through wholesalers.
Production sites
Europe
Sappi Fine Paper Europe operates several paper and pulp mills in Europe.
- Alfeld (Leine) (D)
- Biberist (CH) (closed in August 2011)
- Ehingen (Danube) (D)
- Gratkorn (A) (goes back to Andreas Leykam )
- Kangasniemi (FIN) (closed in spring 2010)
- Kirkniemi (FIN)
- Lanaken (B)
- Maastricht (NL)
- Nijmegen (NL) (sold in summer 2014, insolvent in August 2015)
- Stockstadt am Main (D)
Company structure and product range
Sappi manufactures coated fine paper and chemical pulp . The company conducts its business through three divisions: Sappi Fine Paper , Sappi Forest Products and Sappi Trading .
Sappi Fine Paper is in turn managed through three regional business units: Sappi Fine Paper North America , Sappi Fine Paper Europe and Sappi Fine Paper South Africa . The Sappi Fine Paper division has manufacturing and marketing facilities in North America, Europe, South Africa and Asia. The company produces coated graphic and technical papers, coated and uncoated specialty papers as well as foil and release papers for the production of artificial leather and for polyurethane coating .
Sappi Forest Products , based in South Africa, manufactures bulk goods for the paper sector, pulp, chemical pulp as well as forest and wood products for South African customers and for export.
The company sells its products to dealers, the processing industry such as printing, publishing houses and other direct customers.
| Financial data | ||
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| year | 2015 | 2014 |
| Net Sales (US $ M) | 5,309 | 6,061 |
| Profit (US $ M) | 167 | 135 |
| Note: The end of the marketing year was always in September | ||
Company data
- Paper production: 5.7 million t / a
- Paper pulp: 2.4 million t / a
- Chemical cellulose: 1.3 million t / a
Production activities in seven countries on three continents, sales in over 100 countries, approx. 12,800 employees worldwide.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sappi: Contact us . on sappi.com (English)
- ^ Sappi: Group profile . on sappi.com (English)
- ^ Sappi: Group structure . on sappi.com (English)
- ↑ Sappi Group takes over KNP-Leykam ( Memento from September 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Wirtschaftsblatt on September 16, 1997 onwirtschaftsblatt.at
- ↑ Sappi press release Johannesburg, South Africa, September 29, 2008 ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on sappi.com
- ^ Report on the closure of the paper mill in Biberist, NZZ from July 20, 2011 on nzz.ch
- ↑ Leykam AG. In: aeiou.at. AEIOU , accessed June 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Sappi confirms disposal of Nijmegen Mill ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Innovio Papers in Insolvency
Web links
- Sappi homepage on sappi.com