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Sofidel buys into Hungarian tissue manufacturing
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taly-based tissue manufacturer Sofidel has acquired the business and operations of Hungary’s
Forest Papir Kft, strengthening its position in the European market.
One of the world’s leading
paper producers for hygienic and domestic use, Sofidel with headquarters in Lucca is best known in Italy for its Regina label. The acquisition includes a number of assets, brands, converting capacity to totalling 30,000 tonnes a year, plants and land at Piszke, including: • finished product sales (brand segment and private label segment);
• the Forest brand, one of the leading tissue brands on the Hungarian market;
• the Piszke plant (with a
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converting line for toilet paper rolls supplied by Futura in 2014), north-west of Budapest near the Slovakian border;
• the line in the Lábatlan plant (one, Perini, for toilet paper and kitchen rolls) and the
lines in the Leányvár plant (several lines, for folded product, handkerchiefs and paper napkins), and the rent of the relative plants for three years;
• about 90,000 square metres of land next to the Piszke
production site.
“With this acquisition in Hungary, through our production activity, we are staking an area of eastern Europe that was hitherto left uncovered by us,” said Luigi Lazzareschi, group chief executive of Sofidel.
Global forest products industry commits to tackling climate change
The signing of a United Nations agreement to tackle climate change has been by welcomed by the International Council of Forest and Paper Associations (ICFPA) and its members. The agreement, signed in Sao
Paulo in April, urges countries to implement policies that would help keep a global temperature rise below 2 C degrees. The global forest products industry says it has a highly significant role to play
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in the implementation of these targets. “The global forest products industry has made significant strides in reducing its carbon footprint, stocking carbon, and generating greenhouse gas removals – all helping to mitigate climate change,” said ICFPA President and Brazilian Tree Industry (Ibà) President Elizabeth de Carvalhaes. “This agreement is crucial to
implementing some of the policies that consider biomass as carbon neutral when harvested from sustainably managed forests and to further recognize all positive contributions that forests and forest products provide in combating climate change.” Jori Ringman, acting director
general of the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI), added: “The European pulp and paper industry has been a global
champion in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. It has set itself in 2011 a clear vision of becoming carbon neutral by 2050 and since then, taken concrete steps to reach that goal. “Thanks to responsible sourcing
practices and sustainable forest management, the forest area is growing in Europe by an area of over 1,500 football pitches per day. CEPI is pleased to see development in the same direction globally.”
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