SÃO PAULO – Suzano, the world’s leading eucalyptus pulp producer, is bringing forward its goal of removing 40 million tons of carbon from the air by 2030 to 2025.
The new five-year target will be supported by the expansion of the company’s forest covering which will involve both an uplift in commercial planting operations and setting aside new designated conservation areas that were previously anthropised.
Alongside these improvements, Suzano will maintain its focus on reducing carbon emissions across its own operations and supply chain and will continue to improve its forest management to avoid losses in its operations, maximise productivity and increase carbon removal.
“Revising the target from 2030 to 2025 underlines our belief that addressing climate change must be a priority,” said Walter Schalka, CEO of Suzano.
Suzano maintains that in order for concrete targets for reducing carbon emissions to be achieved in the long-term, governments, companies and society must set and meet short and medium-term targets. The company has been participating in a series of events and meetings with other companies, Brazilian government representatives and global leaders to address the topics that will be discussed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), which will be attended by Suzano representatives.
Eucafluff
At the INDEX nonwovens show in Geneva from October 19-22, Suzano promoted Eucafluff as the only eucalyptus-based fluff pulp for personal hygiene items such as diapers and sanitary napkins.
Its key benefits provided by this unique fiber are a higher liquid absorption and retention in product cores and greater comfort and discretion to the end user. These benefits are due to the high compressibility of the eucalyptus fibre – feature that has also provids associated benefits such as a reduction in packaging size, transportation and storage costs.
In May this year, the company announced the construction of a new multi-billion dollar pulp plant with annual production capacity of 2.3 million tons. The $2.8 billion project is one of the largest private-sector investments currently under development in Brazil.
Also in May, Woodspin – Suzano’s partnership with Spinnova – selected a site and started the construction of its first plant in Jyväskylä, Finland.
Spinnova’s sustainable cellulosic fibre is expected to be available from the plant by the end of 2022 as a result of the €22 million investment and Woodspin’s goal is to be producing one million tons of it annually within ten years.