Sappi Limited · JSE:SAP

Sappi — Investor Day (June 2015)

69 slides from Sappi's investor day presentation, June 2015

  1. Slide 1: SA Investor Day June 2015

    SA Investor Day June 2015 1 Roadbook June 2015

  2. Slide 2: Forward-looking statements

    Forward-looking statements Certain statements in this release that are neither reported financial results nor other historical information, are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements that are predictions of or indicate future earnings, savings, synergies, events, trends,

  3. Slide 3: Agenda

    Agenda  Overview  Strategy  South Africa 3 Roadbook June 2015

  4. Slide 4: Agenda

    Agenda  Overview  Strategy  South Africa 4 Roadbook June 2015

  5. Slide 5: Sappi Limited: Overview

    Sappi Limited: Overview #2 Global Producer of Coated Woodfree Paper - @ 60% of sales Forecast - capacity and demand down 1.5% through 2019* #1 Global Producer of Dissolving Wood Pulp - @ 15% of sales Forecast – demand up 6%, capacity up 3.3% through 2016 ** 5 Roadbook June 2015 *EMGE March 2015 **RI

  6. Slide 6: Sappi at a Glance

    Sappi at a Glance Sappi Ltd 2014 sales = $6B with 13,064 employees Sappi Trading Sappi EU Sappi NA Sappi SA 51% 2014 sales 25% 2014 sales 23% 2014 Sales Paper and Paper Graphic Paper Graphic Paper Packaging Specialised Specialised Speciality Paper Cellulose Cellulose Release Paper Forests 6 Roadbook

  7. Slide 7: Sales Analysis

    Sales Analysis Sales By Source1 (US$) Sales By Destination1 (US$) Europe North America Southern Africa Asia & other Sales By Product1 (US$) 1% 1% Coated Paper 17% Uncoated Paper Speciality Paper 6% Commodity Paper 9% 60% Dissolving Wood Pulp Paper Pulp 6% Other Note 1 – Data reflects results from fi

  8. Slide 8: Agenda

    Agenda  Overview  Strategy  South Africa 8 Roadbook June 2015

  9. Slide 9: Strategic Focus

    Strategic Focus Achieve cost Rationalise Grow through advantages declining moderate businesses investments • Continuously improving • Continuously balance • Growing paper operational performance graphic paper supply packaging grades • Optimising energy and demand in all • Growing specialised usage i

  10. Slide 10: Agenda

    Agenda  Overview  Strategy  South Africa 10 Roadbook June 2015

  11. Slide 11: South Africa – Sappi's Profit Centre

    South Africa – Sappi’s Profit Centre Sales Revenues Operating Profit ex-items 11 Roadbook June 2015

  12. Slide 12: South Africa – Sappi's Profit Centre

    South Africa – Sappi’s Profit Centre Regional Margins: EBITDA ex-items to sales 24.8% 9.1% 7.6% 12 Roadbook June 2015

  13. Slide 13: Summary: South Africa

    Summary: South Africa • Invested in Specialized Cellulose • Low cost producer • Fast growing market • Excellent customer relationships • Optimising our forestry assets • Improving paper business • Better use of timber • Improving cost position • Product optimisation  Packaging • Profitable with gro

  14. Slide 14: Thank You

    Thank You 14 Roadbook June 2015

  15. Slide 15: Forests

    FORESTS

  16. Slide 16: Our Role: Low Cost, Sustainable Fibre Supply

    Our Role Provide a Low Cost, Sustainable or Increasing supply of Fit for Purpose fibre to our mills

  17. Slide 17: National Forestry Land Ownership

    National Forestry Land Ownership National Forestry Land Ownership 2014 DAFF & Municipalities, 5% Sappi (owned and Small company, 8% managed), 27% Small private growers, 23% Mondi, 15% Cape Pine (MTO), 4% York, 5% HM Group, 5% Komatiland, 9%

  18. Slide 18: Sappi Forests

    Sappi Forests • 390 000 ha own plantations in South Africa • 110 000 ha supply agreements with out-growers • 50% hardwoods, 50% softwoods • FSC certified • Supply 6 million tons pulpwood annually (70% self sufficient) Saiccor Tugela Mill Chemical Cellulose Kraft products Ngodwana mill Kraft products

  19. Slide 19: Forestry value chain

    Forestry value chain Seedlings Planting Land Holding R&D 252 000 plantable 40 million seedlings Maintenance 138 000 natural 18 000 ha/annum 390 000 Total Owned Mills 20 million trees/annum Harvesting 11 million km/annum 4.0 million tons/annum Delivery Extraction

  20. Slide 20: Shaw Research Centre

    Shaw Research Centre

  21. Slide 21: Sappi Forests Current Research Focus Areas

    Sappi Forests Current Research Focus Areas – Generation of improved germplasm  Growth, wood properties, pest and disease resistance, tolerate weather extremes. – Multiplication and propagation of the improved germplasm  Seed technology, vegetative propagation, tissue culture. – Generation of best

  22. Slide 22: Delivering genetically improved planting stock

    Delivering genetically improved planting stock Ngodwana Escarpment Seedling cutting nursery nursery Clan cutting nursery Richmond Seedling nursery Sappi Nurseries

  23. Slide 23: Sappi Forests Sustainable Cut

    Sappi Forests Sustainable Cut • Sustainable Cut: The “sustainable cut” is an indication of the amount of wood that grows in one year on land owned and leased by Sappi in South Africa and therefore also the amount of wood that is available to harvest each year without reducing the overall quantity of

  24. Slide 24: Measures of Sustainability

    Measures of Sustainability • 4 Measures – Do not fell more than is growing The •amount available Sustainable annual cutfor harvest (area in thetrees currently under future x is a weighbridge function of whatMAI)we do in the present. – Do not fell before MAI has culminated The •amount Minimum availab

  25. Slide 25: 20037 *8/

    20037 *8/

  26. Slide 26: Fire Management

    Fire Management •Awareness – FPA’s, Communities, schools etc •Fuel loads – Reduction and EML strategies •Detection – Cameras (3 min cycle) and towers •Planning – X-drives, Google Earth, Control Centre •Readiness – People and equipment •Capacity – Aerial, ground attack •Reaction time – Initial attack

  27. Slide 27: Fire fighting resources

    Fire fighting resources

  28. Slide 28: Sappi Forests fire history

    Sappi Forests fire history Sappi Forest Fire History 10000 900 9000 800 8000 700 7000 600 Number of Fires 6000 Hectares 500 5000 400 4000 300 3000 2000 200 1000 100 0 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Area Burned 9311 900 1295 450 1032 2708 3567 Plantation Area Lost 8510 283 292 219 274 2099 2571

  29. Slide 29: Management of unplanted areas

    Management of unplanted areas (112 500 ha) Sappi Forests has committed itself to: •promoting habitat for indigenous wildlife by providing corridors of natural vegetation •managing natural areas for water, soil conservation and biological diversity. •Restoration of riverine areas and wetlands

  30. Slide 30: Stewardship sites

    Stewardship sites Clairmont Mountain Nature Reserve 945ha site on Clairmont Plantation in Bulwer District of KZN • Consolidates Ingelabantwan Forest Reserve and Marwaqa Nature Reserve into large protected area • Conserves high value (irreplaceable) species and habitats • At least 10 red data species

  31. Slide 31: Project Grow – salient facts

    Project Grow – salient facts • Tree farming for subsistence farmers • Focused at individual growers • Started in 1983 with 3 growers on 8 hectares • Currently 4 138 growers managing 14 015 • Technical advice and extension services • Sappi sponsored seedlings • Guaranteed market • Annual advances for

  32. Slide 32: Project Grow's impact life-to-date

    Project Grow’s impact life-to-date Total : R811 922 150 Total : 2 108 994 tons

  33. Slide 33: Sappi in the Eastern Cape

    Sappi in the Eastern Cape • Strategic goal is to support the establishment and management of 30 000 ha of commercial tree plantations by 2020 • Project ownership - community on whose land it is established • Sappi is the “Implementation Partner” - providing technical, managerial and administrative s

  34. Slide 34: Sappi focus areas in E-Cape

    EASTERN CAPE EXPANSIO ~~ sisonke ~Umzimkhulu/ a oe bs a ae fr Nyandeni ee 100 Ktomatens N SCALE -1:1 150 000 A |

  35. Slide 35: Land Claims

    Land Claims Background • Sappi’s approach: - the validity of the claim is researched, the nature of the right lost and the extent of the area representing the right lost determined; - only the extent representing the right lost should be restituted. • The following settlement models were agreed with

  36. Slide 36: Thank You

    Thank You

  37. Slide 37: SA Paper and Paper Packaging

    SA Paper and Paper Packaging Investor Presentation June 2015 37

  38. Slide 38: Agenda

    Agenda • Actions taken • The Business today • Why have we done this? • Have the actions worked? • Next Steps • Ultraflute Development 38

  39. Slide 39: Actions Taken

    Actions Taken Ultrafiute by Sappi

  40. Slide 40: Paper and Paper Packaging – Actions Taken

    Paper and Paper Packaging – Actions Taken • Closed Usutu Pulp mill • Closed Adamas Mill • Closed Tugela KCD, PM 1, PM 3 and PM 4 • Closed coater at Stanger • Closed Enstra pulp mill and PM 3 at Enstra • Commissioned Project Go-Cell at Ngodwana

  41. Slide 41: Paper and Paper Packaging – Actions Taken

    Paper and Paper Packaging – Actions Taken • Rationalised the paper portfolio and exited non profitable grades • Rationalised the containerboard portfolio and exited grades (WTL, Stackraft, Hi Yield and Superflute) • The Kraft and Fine Paper businesses have been merged to reduce management staff and

  42. Slide 42: Packaging Projects – Carousel Schematic

    Packaging Projects – Carousel Schematic 2015 Carousel Export fluting Tugela Tugela Liner Ngodwana (SC flute) (Virgin liner) Recycled Grades Local 100 gsm recycled Enstra (Waste Based) *Filled with office in the short term Typek Office Stanger Coated Grades SFPE (Tissue and Uncoated) (Coated) Equipme

  43. Slide 43: The business today

    The business today Ultrafiute by Sappi [Sappi Southern Africa/ Paper & Paper Packaging]

  44. Slide 44: Packaging

    Enstra Mill Packaging 70,000 tons recycled containerboard 12,000 tons Kraft papers Ngodwana 230,000 tons Kraft linerboard (Virgin) 210,000 tons UBSW pulp Tugela Cape Kraft 190,000 tons virgin / recycled containerboard 60,000 tons recycled 130,000 tons pulp containerboard Containerboard 550,000 Conta

  45. Slide 45: Paper

    Bag Paper Enstra Mill Ngodwana Mil 60,000 tons 110,000 tons newsprint uncoated fine paper, 80,000 tons pulp specialities and securities Stanger Mill 70,000 tons uncoated fine paper, kraft papers, specialities 30,000 tons tissue 50,000 tons Bagasse pulp Total paper and tissue capacity in SA: 270,000

  46. Slide 46: Product Mix 2015

    Product Mix 2015 46 Paper and Paper Packaging Presentation April 2012

  47. Slide 47: Mill products

    Mill products • Ngodwana Mill – Kraft Liner board used as inner and outer layers in corrugated applications  Kraftpride  Tobacco Liner – Newsprint  Presspride – Pulp for Enstra – Specialised Cellulose • Tugela Mill – Fluting  Ultraflute – Linerboard  Testliner 47 Paper and Paper Packaging Prese

  48. Slide 48: Mill products

    Mill products • Cape Kraft Mill (100% recycled) – Cape Fluting – Cape Liner – Plasterboard – Coated products 48 Paper and Paper Packaging Presentation April 2012

  49. Slide 49: Mill products

    Mill products • Stanger Mill – Tissue Wadding – Scholastics – Typek – Kraft Papers - Primepak bleached • Enstra Mill  Printers Boards – Tokai, Milano, Custodian  Business Forms – Laser  Security grades – Sentinel, Uvidul  Envelopes – Ecomail, Valet  Scholastics – Prefect Wove  Stationery – El

  50. Slide 50: Why have we done this?

    Why have we done this? 50 [Sappi Southern Africa/ Paper & Paper Packaging]

  51. Slide 51: Paper and paperboard demand

    Paper and paperboard demand 5 1 51

  52. Slide 52: Long-term demand growth for containerboards

    Long-term demand growth for containerboards 5 2 52

  53. Slide 53: RISI – Global Containerboard Capacities Growth by Fibre

    RISI – Global Containerboard Capacities Growth by Fibre 53 Paper and Paper Packaging Presentation April 2012

  54. Slide 54: World Wide Capacity Trends-Risi

    World Wide Capacity Trends‐Risi ‘000 tons 5% Growth all in Recycled volume 54

  55. Slide 55: Local corrugated Market

    Local corrugated Market 55 Paper and Paper Packaging Presentation April 2012

  56. Slide 56: Have the actions worked?

    Have the actions worked? Ultratlute by Sappi [Sappi Southern Africa/ Paper & Paper Packaging]

  57. Slide 57: EBITDA excl. Special Items SA Paper Division

    EBITDA excl. Special Items SA Paper Division Ebitda % SA Paper ,12 ,10 ,8 ,6 ,4 ,2 - 2013 2014 2015E 57 [Sappi Southern Africa/ Paper & Paper Packaging ]

  58. Slide 58: Next Steps

    Next Steps Ultratflute by Sappi [Sappi Southern Africa/ Paper & Paper Packaging]

  59. Slide 59: Ultraflute development: A success story

    Ultraflute development: A success story

  60. Slide 60: Average weight of corrugated board

    Average weight of corrugated board 60

  61. Slide 61: Corrugated board and fluting

    Corrugated board and fluting Flute direction – width of sheet Top liner – Outside of material Bottom liner – Inside of material Chop – Length of the sheet Recycled fluting Semi-chemical fluting • Produced • Produced using semi- predominantly using chemical fibre (eg OCC as fibre source NSSC) • Used

  62. Slide 62: Drivers of Ultraflute development

    Drivers of Ultraflute development Simplify product mix Export Increase market NSSC opps usage Why Ultraflute ? Local Free up comp waste Import Light- threat weighting Collaborative development – Mill, marketing, customer, STC 28

  63. Slide 63: How we stack up against the market leaders

    How we stack up against the market leaders 63

  64. Slide 64: Product testing and market acceptance

    Product testing and market acceptance CRI Trials 64

  65. Slide 65: Converter trials

    Converter trials Reduced basis weights Case 1 Case 2  Grape cartons  Open display cartons  Reduced fluting from 175 Superflute  Reduced fluting from 175 Superflute to 125 Ultraflute (28%) to 165 Ultraflute (5.7%)  Other components kept constant  Further reduced outer and mid-liner  BCT improv

  66. Slide 66: Summary of Ultraflute product benefits

    Summary of Ultraflute product benefits Strength  Competes with leading fluting grades in the global market Lightweighting  Allows customers to lightweight materials providing yield benefits High humidity performance  Excellent cold-chain performance Convertibility  Reduced propensity for crackin

  67. Slide 67: Conclusion

    Conclusion Ultratflute by Sappi [Sappi Southern Africa/ Paper & Paper Packaging]

  68. Slide 68: What makes us a successful business?

    What makes us a successful business? • Strategy must be revised regularly • Make the brave decisions to adapt • Listen to customers • Invest in Growing markets • Match machines to markets • Don’t underestimate simplification! • Lowest cost quartile • First to market with product development • Goal a

  69. Slide 69: Onward and Upward! Thank you

    Onward and Upward! Thank you 69 | [Sappi Q2 staff results presentation] | [Sappi Limited] |

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