Platinum Sponsors

International technology group ANDRITZ offers a broad portfolio of innovative plants, equipment,
systems, services and digital solutions for a wide range of industries and end markets. Sustainability
is an integral part of the company’s business strategy and corporate culture. With its extensive
portfolio of sustainable products and solutions, ANDRITZ aims to make the greatest possible
contribution to a sustainable future and help its customers achieve their sustainability goals.
ANDRITZ is a global market leader in all four of its business areas – Pulp & Paper, Metals, Hydro and
Separation. Technological leadership and global presence are cornerstones of the group’s strategy,
which is focused on long-term profitable growth. The publicly listed group has around 29,100
employees and over 280 locations in more than 40 countries.
ANDRITZ Pulp & Paper provides sustainable technology, automation, and service solutions for the
production of all types of pulp, paper, board and tissue. The technologies and services focus on
increased production efficiency, lower overall operating costs as well as innovative decarbonization
strategies and autonomous plant operation.
The product portfolio also includes boilers for power generation, flue gas cleaning systems, various
nonwoven technologies, and panelboard (MDF) production systems. With waste-to-value recycling,
shredding and energy solutions, waste and by-product streams from production are converted into
valuable secondary raw materials as well as into sustainable resources for energy generation. Stateof-
the-art IIoT technologies as part of Metris digitalization solutions complete the comprehensive
product offering.

Nalco Water, an Ecolab company, is the leading global provider of water management solutions and chemical expertise. Our holistic water and process expertise helps customers across nearly every industry use less water and energy, and maximize the productivity of their operations. With a 90-year track record, Nalco Water has been committed to the Pulp and Paper industry. Worldwide, our technologies and programs provide quantifiable value to specific customer challenges, whether improved operational efficiency, safety, product quality or environmental impact. As an Ecolab company, we’re perfectly aligned with our vision to be the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technology and services, providing and protecting what is vital.

Gold Sponsor

CMPC is a century-old forestry company that operates in three business sectors: wood pulp, personal hygiene products (tissue paper) and packaging. The company is part of the bioeconomy: its operations are based on sustainability and the circular economy. CMPC has been present in Brazil since 2009 and operates in seven states. The CMPC group has over 25 thousand employees and 54 production facilities, distributed across twelve Latin American, European and Asian countries, and around 24 thousand customers all over the world. In 2023, the company reached the top of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and achieved 1st place in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability rankings. The CEO of the CMPC Group is Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, who was elected CEO of the Year (2023) for Sustainability by the Council of the Americas. Then, in 2024, Mr. Ruiz-Tagle was named CEO of the Year at the Fastmarkets Forest Products PPI Awards, while CMPC was also named as a world leader in Sustainability. More information is on the website.

Silver Sponsors

FM Global provides comprehensive commercial and industrial property insurance and risk management services with an industry segment focused on Forest Products. Our property loss prevention engineers are charged with protecting the value created by our Client’s business by assessing exposures and developing solutions.

Our Forest Products Operations provides an expertise in the industry which offers the following:

Broad coverages specific to the needs of Forest Products companies.

Paper and wood products loss prevention services including Recovery Boiler explosion prevention.

Cost-effective insurance and risk transfer solutions backed by large, stable capacity.

Industry leading Claims performance.

The Group Division Voith Paper is part of the Voith Group. As the full-line supplier to the paper industry, it provides the largest range of technologies, services, and products on the market, and offers paper manufacturers integrated solutions from a single source. The company’s continuous stream of innovations facilitates resource-conserving production and helps customers minimize their carbon footprint. With its comprehensive automation products and leading digitalization solutions from the Papermaking 4.0 portfolio, Voith offers its customers state-of-the-art digital technologies to im-prove plant availability and efficiency for all sections of the production process.

Official Media Partner

EL PAPEL Magazine:
– The only magazine for the Spanish and Latin American pulp, paper, board and tissue industry
– Spanish language
– Markets covered: Spain, Portugal, Latin America

Media Partners

ACOTEPAC Asociación Colombiana de la industria de Pulpa, Papel y Cartón works in the last 37 years with members of the Pulp & paper industry developing educational and informational activities and also promoting sectorial knowledge generation from both a domestic and international perspective.

The Argentine Pulp and Paper Manufacturers Association (AFCP) has been bringing together Argentina’s most important producers since 1932. The AFCP is a non-profit organization that aims to promote the development of the pulp and paper industry in Argentina. The association has a wide range of activities, including advocacy, training, research, and promotion. The AFCP is a member of several national and international organizations, including CONFIAR and Two Sides Latin America. For more information, visit the website: www.afcparg.com.ar

The Asociación Nacional de Empresarios de Colombia (ANDI), is a non-profit association that aims to disseminate and promote the political, economic, and social principles of a sound free enterprise system.

Empapel, the Brazilian Paper Packaging Association, aims to be recognized as an organization that transforms the environmental advantages of paper packaging.

Empapel seeks to expand the market and business opportunities for its members and achieve leadership in packaging solutions. The goal is to leverage the full potential of paper packaging in a scenario where consumers are increasingly committed to the circular economy—a concept that promotes new ways of producing and consuming, generating long-term resources.

The association closely monitors the sector with analytical bulletins produced by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV). This work helps identify market needs and various investment and business opportunities.

The Indústria Brasileira de Árvores (Ibá) is an association responsible for the institutional representation of the planted tree production chain, from the field to the industry, to its main stakeholders. Ibá’s mission is firmly rooted in the belief that planted trees are the future of renewable, recyclable, and environmentally, biodiversity, and human-friendly raw materials.

News portal newspulpaper.com was launched by the Brazilian Pulp and Paper Technical Association (ABTCP) in October 2023, and stands as the most comprehensive online source of information for the forest base industry’s productive chain. Designed to unite ABTCP’s editorial products like O Papel Magazine, ABTCP’s Guide of Suppliers & Manufacturers, and the submission of Technical Articles, the portal offers centralized access to data and content, providing a dynamic, modern, and secure experience. With a user-friendly and responsive interface, newspulpaper.com offers a wide range of resources, including up-to-date news, economic indicators, exclusive columns, enriching material and extensive content for all industry segments.

ENP Publishing Group is the leading information and communication provider dedicated to the pulp and paper industry. Our magazines circulate in 40 countries and reach 34,000 readers and users. We publish in local language, covering markets like France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, the Middle East, Latin America and Brazil.
For global coverage, our digital platform PaperFIRST, in English language, includes a website (www.paperfirst.info), a mobile application for Android and iOs (PaperFirst) and social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin) to relay instant news from the industry.
More recently, ENP launched TissueFIRST, a mobile application purely dedicated to the tissue professionals.

Pasta e Papel Magazine:
– Portuguese language
– The leading publication for the Portuguese and Brazilian pulp and paper community.
– Market covered: Portugal – Brazil

Portal Celulose is a benchmark for the entire pulp production chain, being the only website exclusively dedicated to this market in Brazil. This news portal is part of the Nexum Group, the largest communication ecosystem to connect the pulp, paper and personal care industries in the Americas.

Portal Packaging is a benchmark for the entire paper packaging production chain, being the only website exclusively dedicated to this market in Brazil. This news portal is part of the Nexum Group, the largest communication ecosystem to connect the pulp, paper and personal care industries in the Americas.

With more than a decade of experience, the Tissue Online Portal is a benchmark for the entire tissue and personal care production chain, being the only website exclusively dedicated to these markets in Brazil. This news portal is part of the Nexum Group, the largest communication ecosystem to connect the paper, pulp and personal care industries in the Americas.

Founded in 2008, Two Sides is a not-for-profit, global initiative promoting the unique sustainable and attractive attributes of print, paper and paper packaging. The Two Sides campaign is a collaboration of companies from sectors including forestry, pulp and paper manufacturing, packaging, inks, pre-press, press, finishing, publishing, printing, envelopes and postal operators. Two Sides operates throughout Europe, North America, South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.