MONDI SHANDUKA NEWSPRINT

MONDI SHANDUKA NEWSPRINT is a leading supplier of newsprint and telephone directory paper in South Africa and selected export markets.
 
Mondi Shanduka Newsprint was formed in 2004 following Shanduka Resources acquisition of a 42% interest in Mondi’s integrated South African newsprint business.

ROOTED IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Shanduka group is a black owned and managed investment company with a growing portfolio of investments in the Resources, Property and Financial Services sectors. Its largest shareholders are the group’s predominantly black management, Cyril Ramaphosa’s Family Trust and James Motlatsi. Mabindu Development Trust and the Fundani Education Trust hold a further stake.

Shanduka’s team of professional and experienced business executives seek to drive shareholder value for their partners and to transform them into truly empowered South African companies. In addition to the development of its business portfolio, Shanduka is committed to the upliftment of historically disadvantaged communities. It has established the Shanduka Foundation to enhance education in South African schools, to improve business skills of black people and to assist in the development of small and medium enterprises. more.........

Mondi is an international pulp and paper company organised into two businesses namely Mondi Business Paper and Mondi Packaging. Mondi business Paper is the leading producer of cut size paper in Europe. Major production facilities are located in Austria, Hungary, Israel, Slovakia, Russia and South Africa. Mondi Business Paper South Africa is a highly integrated, export focused business made up of hardwood forestry operations, the SilvaCel woodchip export facility, the Richards Bay mill and the uncoated wood free paper businesses based at the Merebank mill.
 
Mondi Packaging has 106 production plants in Europe and 18 in the Americas, Asia and Africa and is active in five different segments – packaging paper, corrugated, bags, flexibles and coating. Mondi Packaging South Africa includes board and paper mills at Sprints, Felixton, Piet Retief; its corrugated converting business and its recovered fibre collection and processing operations (Mondi Recycling). Mondi South Africa and Shanduka Resources have concluded an agreement in terms of which Shanduka Resources have acquired a 42% equity stake in Mondi Packaging South Africa.

STAFF EMPOWERMENT

Many of Mondi’s employees are from previously disadvantaged communities. Mondi as a company is committed to transformation and to the growth and development of its employees and the communities in which it operates.