Klabin says fluff pulp from new mill approved by 80% of Brazilian buyers; packaging paper exports to decline




SAO PAULO, July 28, 2016-

Klabin’s softwood fluff pulp has been already tested and approved by 80% of the Brazilian potential clients, the company’s CEO, Fabio Schvartsman, stated today on a call with analysts. The product is being manufactured at the company’s new Ortigueira mill, in southern Brazil, which kicked off in March 2016. The facility has a 1.5 million tonnes/yr combined eucalyptus and softwood kraft (BEK/BSK) pulp capacity. The mill is currently on learning curve and produced 230,000 tonnes of market pulp in the second quarter of the year, of which 174,000 tonnes were BEK.

“Due to the positive feedback we are getting from potential customers in Brazil, we expect that fluff pulp sales will increase within the next months, meeting our target of converting 100% of our 400,000 tonnes/yr softwood kraft pulp capacity into fluff in 2017,” the CEO commented. According to Schvartsman, the fluff pulp sales can bring higher margins to the company and will substitute imports in the country.


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