2024

We arrived at our first 100 years as a world leader in our sector, with great pride in our legacy, startup spirit and with our eyes set in the future.

2023

Suzano Asia Innovability Hub was inaugurated in Shanghai. It is dedicated to addressing customers’ evolving needs for pulp and new bio-based materials and applications, and will act as a collaboration base for various pulp product participants and other stakeholders to drive sustainable development through Innovability. In the same year, Suzano established a subsidiary in Singapore, marking another milestone in the company’s business development and presence in Asia.

2022

Suzano expands its team in Shanghai to better serve the country’s strategic call for the transition towards a low carbon society and local customers’ corresponding needs. The extended team focuses on ensuring that the company increasingly delivers bio-based solutions to support China in meeting its ambitious environmental and social goals.

2020

Suzano’s Shanghai office is registered as a subsidiary under Suzano Global, responsible for pulp sales in Asia with a professional logistics team, an experienced technical team, and a customer-centric commercial team.

2019

The merger between Suzano Papel e Celulose and Fibria is announced, and ultimately, Suzano S.A. is formed. The company is now one of the world’s largest pulp producers.

2015

The Suzano Unit produces Eucafluff® for the first time, which is the first fluff pulp from eucalyptus to be made commercially viable in the world. This product is ideally used for sanitary pads and disposable diapers.

2011

Suzano acquires all shares of the Limeira Unit. The same year, lignin pilot plant enters operation at the Limeira Unit. This move enabled the creation of Ecolig in 2017, a high-value-adding product from a renewable source that can replace raw fossil materials and sees a number of applications across industries.

2010

Nine years after investing in the company, Suzano acquires full stake in FuturaGene, a pioneer in biotechnology and in increased productivity for the forest-based industry. Currently, the biotech solutions subsidiary has laboratories in Israel and Brazil.

2007

Suzano sets up its office in Shanghai.

1999

Ecofuturo Institute is created and maintained to this day by Suzano. With initiatives such as the management of Neblinas Park, Suzano’s environmental reserve, its goal is to transform society through the promotion of knowledge and environmental conservation.

1980s

Suzano enters the China market by supplying pulp in response to the development of the domestic paper industry.

1961

Suzano is the first company in the world to produce pulp and paper using 100% eucalyptus fiber on an industrial scale. The company has just expanded its production line by acquiring the current Rio Verde Unit (São Paulo State). Fourteen years later, it starts exporting to the European market.

1955

Max Feffer, Leon’s son, conducts research to discover an alternative raw material to substitute pine. One year later, the company begins the production of pulp from eucalyptus, which revolutionized the pulp industry in Brazil and worldwide.

1924

Shortly after arriving in Brazil, Ukrainian immigrant Leon Feffer obtains approval for his individual firm, marking the creation of Suzano Papel e Celulose. Seventeen years later, his first paper mill begins operations in the Ipiranga district of São Paulo, SP.