Commitments to Renewing Life
For planet
1.8 %
Through innovativeness, when we have innovation at the service of sustainability, we seek solutions in line with our purpose of renewing life from the tree.
We know that we can make other products from the tree because it is essentially renewable, biodegradable in different environments, and highly versatile. These products have the potential to reduce carbon emissions, which is fundamental to combating the climate crisis and the pressure on natural resources.
Products of renewable origin are those made from natural resources, such as eucalyptus pulp, and can be regenerated quickly. Increasing the availability of products of renewable origin, in addition to those we have traditionally produced in our business, enables a transition economy and strengthens the consolidation of a regenerative economy.
Offering renewable products that can replace plastic and other oil derivatives. All the products offered by Suzano are of renewable origin. Still, for this target, we will only count products that result from an innovation process, such as paperboard packaging, cups, straws, lignin, and microfibrillated cellulose (MFC), among others.
Make 10 million tons of products available from renewable sources that can replace plastic and other petroleum-based products - from zero to 10 million by 2030.
By 2024, we will offer 62,500 tons of renewable products that can replace plastic and other raw materials of fossil origin, reaching an accumulated volume of 177,500 tons.
Over the year, several initiatives contributed significantly to the progress of the renewable products target. These include market opening strategies for our cup paper line (Bluecup® and Bluecup Bio®) and packaging paper (Liner®) and initiatives to increase capacity for Bluecup®. For our flexible paper line (Greenpack®), we carried out actions with brand owners and converters while progress was made in developing new markets and applications for our straw paper line (Loop®). However, the TP Cycle and Hibulk products were discontinued from the portfolio due to the company's strategy based on market assessments.
In the New Business area, 2024 was also a milestone year for Kraft lignin (Ecolig®) and microfibrillated cellulose (Biofiber®), with Suzano being the first Brazilian company to obtain international certifications recognized by the USDA and COCERT for their sustainability and safe applications, including in cosmetics.
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Cumulative total | |
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t | t | t | t | t | ||
Tonnes of renewable products |
0.00 |
32,000.00 |
45,000.00 |
38,053.00 |
62477 |
117,530.00 |
With a roadmap of new business initiatives, in addition to the paper packaging innovation front, Suzano has the challenge of reaching the level of technological readiness of the solutions to evaluate investments in scalability. We will continue to focus our efforts on expanding solutions that can replace plastic, introducing more sustainable options to the market, and maintaining constant attention to emerging needs, by launching more sustainable versions of our products and advancing our Greenbag® line to the market, recognized as an alternative for bags, sacks, and envelopes. This will be done through technical improvements, expansion of sales actions and partnerships with buyers, and ongoing market and segment mapping.
Connect half a million hectares of priority areas for biodiversity conservation in the Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, and Amazon.
Make available 10 million tons of renewable-source products that can replace plastic and other petroleum-based products by 2030.
Remove 40 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere by 2025; Reduce by 15% the intensity of the Greenhouse Gas emissions of scopes 1 and 2, per ton of production...
Increase water availability in all the critical watersheds¹ in Suzano's areas of operation by 2030 and reduce by 15% the water captured in our industrial operations...