Klabin’s Forestry Business Unit is the biggest Brazilian supplier of logs from planted forests to the laminating and sawn timber industries. Its processes ensure the reliability and low cost of the products, always in keeping with the Company’s Policy of Sustainability. The great majority of the Klabin’s forests have FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council®) certification; the company was the first from the Pulp and Paper sector in the Americas to be granted FSC certification, in 1998, for its forests in Parana.

During and after the crisis of 2008, the certified timber market performed better than that of non-certified products and the amount of customers looking for certified timber has steadily increased year after year.

The majority of certified timber produced and sold by Klabin goes to overseas markets, above all to Europe and the United States. The product is converted into door and window frames, moldings and plywood for construction. In 2010, the company sold 3.11 thousand tons of wood. Trees harvested by Klabin can vary from 7 to 25 years in age and a single eucalyptus or pine tree can weigh as much as 3 tons.

Upon conclusion of project MA-1100, Klabin could produce 740 thousand tons/year of cartonboard, used in the manufacture of boxes mainly in the segments of foods (milk, dairy products, juices, sauces, wines and soft drinks) beverages (soft drinks and beer), hygiene and cleaning products and pharmaceuticals.

Klabin is a pioneer and leader in the production of Kraftliner in Latin America and also the biggest supplier of this grade for boxes, answering for approximately 80% of Brazil’s exports. It supplies its corrugated box and industrial sack plants with inter-company transfers. The company exports to over 50 countries and is the leading supplier of this product to several markets in Latin America, as well as being present in the intercontinental kraftliner markets (Europe, Asia, North America and South America).

All Klabin’s virgin fiber paper mills have been granted the right to use the trademark by the FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council®), which ensures traceability of raw material, attesting to the company’s commitment to the practice of sustainable development throughout its production process and furthermore they have the German institute ISEGA certificate, guaranteeing that the paper used in packaging may come into direct contact with foodstuff. ISEGA analyzes a series of parameters based on American (FDA - Food and Drug Administration) and German (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung - BfR) legislation.

Klabin is the leader of the Brazilian corrugated packaging sector, which ships about 2.2 million tons/year. The company has the biggest production capacity in the domestic market with nine box plants and a product range including heavy duty boxes, displays, boxes printed in different formats, toys and sheets. Klabin’s boxes serve all the segments of the economy and provide total protection for the products transported. Currently 100% of Klabin’s production of corrugated boxes and recycled are sold with the FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council®) trademark.

According to the ABPO (Brazilian Association of Corrugated Board), 40% of the national production of corrugated board goes to the food sector, 25% to steel and metallurgical products, 15% to sheet plants, 11% to cosmetics, hygiene, cleaning and chemical products and 7% to flowers and fruit, a segment which has grown almost 30% in the period from 2005 to 2010.

Biodegradable, recyclable and effectively recycled, corrugated boxes grew 9% in volume in 2010 alone. This product has substituted with both environmental and performance (automation) advantages older materials used in packaging manufacture, such as containers for the sectors of textiles (cones for thread, woven cloth), metallurgy (for 240 boxes of auto parts), agroindustrial (750 kilos of seeds) and food (a ton of viscous liquid), as well as new products for the white goods line (fridge, dishwashing machine), displays for transporting and exhibiting at the point of sale, new formats for fruits and vegetables and flowers and other sophisticated applications such as boxes for pressure cookers recently developed by Klabin for the SEB group (Panex).

Klabin Industrial Sacks, leader in South America in the segment of multiwall and self-opening sacks (SOS), is acknowledged for the top quality of its products and the excellence of its services. The company relies on a highly specialized technical team, intent on developing tailor-made solutions for customers from a wide variety of sectors, in particular from civil construction, the food and chemical industries and agribusiness.

A pioneer in the area of environmental responsibility in Brazil, Klabin was the first company in Latin America to be granted Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) certification for the chain of custody of its industrial sacks. This recognition, along with the quality and technology employed in its production process, lends added protection to the products and brands of its customers.

Combining the strength, porosity and stretch of its high consistency extensible sack kraft, Klabin’s industrial sacks meet the most demanding specifications and may be used with other kinds of materials such as high density polyethylene film and paper coated with aluminum or polyethylene. Furthermore, they have excellent printability and can be printed in up to eight colors with a flexographic system.

The industrial sacks made by Klabin are environmentally correct, that is to say 100% biodegradable, 100% recyclable and produced from raw material coming from forests planted for this purpose.

The industrial sack plants are located in Goiana (PE), Lages 1 and 2 (SC) and Pilar (Argentina) to serve domestic and international markets which basically consist of countries in the Americas.

Klabin Industrial Sacks has the following certifications:

Chain of Custody for Industrial Sacks – SmartWood
FSC (Forest Stewardship Council)
ISO 9001 
Bureau Veritas Quality International