Sateri was set up in Shanghai in 2002 as China’s first wholly foreign-owned cellulose enterprise a year after China joined the World Trade Organisation. 

It is now one of the world’s largest viscose producers with five viscose mills and a yarn spinning mill in various parts of China. In more recent years, it has diversified from woven to non-woven and Lyocell fibres, and with more differentiated products including recycled fibres.

Sateri’s president, Allen Zhang, said: “As a raw material supplier, Sateri will do our part and respond to the urgent need to decouple growth from further resource impact. This is something that will underpin our growth, in addition to QPC (quality, productivity, cost) and continuous improvement which are well-embedded in the company.”

 

Image: Sateri's dissolving pulp comes from sustainably-managed plantations of eucalyptus trees, which mature in five to seven years.