Klabin S.A. | Introduction
Introduction
Rua Formosa 367, 12 andar
São Paulo 01075-900
Brazil
Telephone: 55 (11) 3225-4000
Fax: 55 (11) 3225-4241
Web site: http://www.klabin.com.br
Public Company
Incorporated: 1909 as Companhia Fabricadora del Papel S.A.
Employees: 12,800
Sales: BRL 2.73 billion ($931.74 million) (2004)
Stock Exchanges: Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo OTC
Ticker Symbols: KLBN; KLBAY
NAIC: 113110 Timber Tract Operations; 113210 Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products; 113310 Logging; 322121 Paper (Except Newsprint) Mills; 322130 Paperboard Mills; 322211 Corrugated and Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing; 322212 Folding Paperboard Box Manufacturing; 322213 Setup Paperboard Box Manufacturing; 322224 Uncoated Paper and Multiwall Bag Manufacturing
Klabin S.A. is Brazil's largest manufacturer of pulp and paper products. A vertically organized enterprise, it harvests timber from its own forest tracts and sells lumber to a variety of customers, including the U.S. construction industry. Its timber (and the timber it purchases from others) also is converted in its own factories to cellulose (wood pulp), which is used in the company's plants for the production of packaging paper, paper sacks, and corrugated cardboard boxes. It concentrates on these products because, as a low-cost producer of wood and wood pulp, it specializes in paper grades where the raw material plays a major role in the final cost of the product. Its planted pine trees reach maturity for cutting in only 20 years, compared with 100 years in Europe.