Overview
Everywhere you look, you’re likely to see dissolving wood pulp in use, in one innovative form or another. Created from wood (a sustainable, renewable resource), our Verve dissolving wood pulp (DWP) is used in a variety of industries to create environmentally friendly products – from breathable fabrics to washing up sponges.
Dissolving Wood Pulp
A sustainable, and recyclable product derived from a renewable resource - wood, Verve Dissolving wood pulp is focused on a number of key markets with a product offering tailored to each individual market segment : Textiles, Non woven fibres, MicroCrystaline Cellulose, Ethers and Sponges.
Sustainable fibre for a thriving world
The earth is our only home. It provides us with everything we need for life, yet it is immensely fragile. It needs not only our care but our intelligence too. We’re driven by our passion to create a thriving world that is better tomorrow than today. We strive to find innovative solutions and to use our know-how for good. We work with limitless zest, focused always on sustainability and doing what is best for our planet, people and the prosperity of all.
Everywhere you look, you’re likely to see dissolving wood pulp in use, in one innovative form or another. Created from wood (a sustainable, renewable resource), our Verve dissolving wood pulp is used in a variety of industries to create environmentally friendly products – from breathable fabrics to washing up sponges.
Verve Advantage
The fibre of the future. Sappi Verve Advantage provides the world with a pulp developed specifically for the Lyocell market and its derivatives. Strict tolerances within narrow defined specifications are adhered to , to ensure a fibre and ultimate textile which is sustainable through certified wood as a source and the processes used to create these fibres.
Verve Performer
The mainstay of the Rayon industry is Viscose Staple Fibre. VSF provides more than 80% of the global wood based cellulosic fibre used in a variety of applications within both the Textiles and non wovens industry. Sappi Verve Performer provides a high performance viscose grade pulp tailored to this high volume industry.
Verve Elements
Verve Elements provides a natural and renewable feedstock with sustainability at its core. Process and our products comply with strict performance guidelines which include the presence of contaminants and non desirable elements within the final product.
High Yield Pulp
As packaging and specialty markets grow in this new global market, requirements for specialty pulps have developed into a need for quality, consistency and proven track record of pulps with a focus on specific characteristics. Whether these characteristics be opacity, bulk or whiteness, our high-yield pulps are recognised as the proven market leader in offering a quality solution across a spectrum of end uses. Our sustainably sourced, high-yield bleached chemi-thermo mechanical pulp (BCTMP) provides good bulk, excellent brightness and superior drainage.
Hi Yield pulp provides a sustainable, forestry certified BCTMP product into Speciality papers and Packaging papers markets including:
Light weight packaging • Paper Boards • Label papers • Thermal papers • High Bulk papers
A proven track record on quality and consistency of quality as well as a devotion to sustainability provides our customers with a competitive advantage in their final product offering. Our attention to our pulp quality, its characteristics and the ever changing consumer landscape enables us to continually remain the leaders within this segment. Coupled with our established global network including sales offices, technical and logistic competence, supports our pulp and our mill to customer solutions
Lightweight packaging
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Paperboard
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Label papers
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Sourced sustainably
Highlight Sappi’s point of difference. FSC certification achieved through stewardship and governance.
How we apply ourselves
Our mills are where we practice what we preach, explore their operations and certifications.
Saiccor Mill
Saiccor Mill, a Sappi pulp facility, produces world-class products in South Africa, where technology and infrastructure meet global demands. It is located 50 km south of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.
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