BOSTON, July 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Fastmarkets,
the industry-leading cross-commodity price reporting agency (PRA),
has announced that Cristiano Teixeira, Chief Executive Officer
of Klabin, has been named the 2021 Latin American CEO of the Year
for the Pulp and Paper sector.
The award will be presented to Mr. Teixeira at the Virtual
Latin American Conference on August 4-6, 2021.
The Latin American CEO of the Year is nominated by a group of
independent judges, comprised of investment analysts and portfolio
managers covering the Latin American and global pulp and paper
industry.
When notified of his win, Mr. Teixeira said: "It is a great
pleasure to participate in the management of a company like Klabin,
and to be recognized for this work. I believe that the major
challenges we face are driving significant progress related to the
economy, climate, business, social responsibility, health, and
governance. It is a period of hard work and for this very reason I
make a point of sharing this achievement with each of the company's
more than 25,000 employees, in addition to our business partners
and investors. It is recognition of everyone's dedication to making
Klabin a place dedicated to building a more sustainable
future."
Klabin is Brazil's largest
packaging paper producer and a leading company in Latin
America. In July, the company is concluding the first phase of
a major expansion. This project, called Puma II, conveys a new
450,000 tonnes/yr kraftliner mill made of 100% eucalyptus pulp -
the first in the world with this technology.
The company has just announced the next steps in preparation for
the second phase of this project. Klabin has hired Valmet to supply
largescale pulp and paper technology, including the boxboard paper
machine (PM No. 28) with the capacity to produce 460,000 tonnes/yr,
as well as a completely new fiber line. The startup is scheduled
for the second quarter of 2023.
Driven by the potential substitution of single-use plastics, the
paper packaging board segment is seen as a major area of industry
growth. Eucalyptus fiber is considered to be an eco-friendly fiber
option and the company considers this to be a step further into a
sustainable future.
Mr. Teixeira will join a CEO panel alongside leaders from Suzano
and Eldorado Brasil Celulose during the Virtual Latin American
Conference to discuss challenges in a green recovery in a volatile
market.
About Cristiano
Teixeira
Cristiano Teixeira has more than
30 years' professional experience in different sectors, such as
pulp and paper, forestry, metallurgy, ceramics, and oil and gas. He
has worked at Sumitomo Corporation, Ripasa, Sony, Duratex, and
San Antonio. His career has taken
in commercial, logistics, operational planning, and project
areas.
Teixeira began his career at Klabin in 2011 as Supply Chain
Director. He has also been Executive Director of the Corrugated
Cardboard, Industrial Bags, Sackraft and Containerboard Paper
Divisions, and Executive Director of Conversions and Commercial
Papers. He has been the CEO of the company since April 2017.
He holds a degree in Foreign Trade from Paulista University, an
MBA in International Trade from FIA, and a Master's degree in
Logistics from the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (France). He is the Climate Ambassador of the
United Nations Global Compact Network Brazil, and a member of the
Business Leaders group at COP26 – the
United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change. He was
appointed "International CEO of the Year" in 2021 by Fastmarkets
RISI and has been listed by Época Negócios' as a person committed
to the future of the planet.
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