3. Sappi Limited, originally incorporated as South African Pulp and Paper Industries Limited in 1936,
is a South African pulp and paper company with global operations. South African Pulp and Paper
Industries Limited was founded in 1936. The company is now known as Sappi and is
headquartered in Johannesburg, It produces and sells commodity paper products, pulp, dissolving
pulp, and forest and timber products for Southern Africa and export markets. In 2013, it was the
world's largest producer of dissolving pulp.
PROCESS FOR PAPER& PULP:-
1.Woodfibre arrives at the paper mill as whole tree trunks
2. At the paper mill, the logs are debarked and and put through a chipper which reduces the
logs to wood chips
3. A digester cooks the wood chips in chemicals and blow tank reduces the wood chips to
fibres (wood pulp)
4. The wood fibres are then washed to remove impurities and screened to remove any knots or
splinters
5. The wood fibre is then put through a bleaching process to whiten the pulp
6. The pulp is beaten, refined and additives are added
7. A head box stores and meters pulp onto the wire. Paper is formed on the wire where press
rollers remove excess water
8. The paper is then put through a drying machine to dry the paper sheets
9. The paper is wound onto large rolls and then a slitter cuts the rolls into smaller rolls
10. Finally, a sheet cutter cuts the paper rolls into sheets.
