Mondi - Using our resources wisely

Wood is an essential raw material for all of our virgin paper-based products. From wood fibre we produce pulp, the basic ingredient of all paper and paper-based packaging. We use the pulp produced in our own production and also sell it wholesale to third parties. The pulp for paper-making may be produced from virgin fibre by either chemical or mechanical means, or it may be produced by the re-pulping of recovered paper. In the pulping process, the raw cellulose-bearing material is broken down into its individual fibres. In chemical pulping, chemicals are used to dissolve the lignin and free the fibres.

Recovered paper has become an indispensable raw material for our business and, in 2010, we used approximately 1.8 million tonnes of recovered paper to produce pulp for paper and newsprint – this amounts to 33% of the total amount of pulp used.

Besides fibres and chemicals, the pulp and paper manufacturing process requires a substantial amount of process water and energy (in the form of steam and electrical power), which makes the paper-making process an energy- and natural resource-intensive one. Depending on the type of paper produced, fillers, coatings and other substances are also used.

In 2010, Mondi produced around 3.7 million tonnes of pulp, of which 85% was for internal use and 15% was sold to third parties. An additional 0.75 million tonnes of pulp was purchased from third parties. We also consumed 15.7 million m³of wood, and 1.8 million tonnes of recovered paper.

Materials used
	2010	2009
Wood (m³)	15.7 million	14.1 million
Pulp (t)	3.6 million	3.8 million
Recovered paper (t)	1.8 million	1.5 million

The group produced the following amounts of finished products: 1.80 million tonnes of UFP, 0.51 million tonnes of newsprint, 0.54 million tonnes of market pulp, 2.60 million tonnes of containerboard, 1.7 biilion m² of corrugated products, 0.98 million tonnes of Kraft paper, 3.9 billion units of industrial bags, and 3.7 billion m² of coatings and release liner.