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Mondi has received 6 PPI Award nominations for achievements in the pulp and paper industry and is up for a Green Business Award in the Carbon Emission Performance category

Mondi has been shortlisted for six of the twelve 2010 Pulp & Paper International Awards taking place on November 16th in Brussels. The PPI Awards are the only global awards dedicated to recognizing the achievements of companies, mills and individuals in the pulp and paper sector. The Green Business awards, held November 2nd in London, acknowledge excellence in green practice, strategy and products.

“We are extremely proud of all of our Mondi finalists and the fact that Mondi has been nominated for six out of 12 PPI prizes and a Green Business Award. It is rewarding to have our accomplishments recognized in this way, particularly with regard to Sustainable Development.,” says Peter J. Oswald, CEO of Mondi Europe & International.

PPI nominated Mondi for:

·         Company Awards

o    Uncoated Fine Paper´s Green Range for Promotional Campaign of the Year

o    Mondi Group Austria for Environmental Strategy of the Year

·         Mill Awards

o    Mondi SCP Ruzomberok in Slovakia for Environmental Strategy of the Year

o    Mondi Syktyvkar for Efficiency Improvements of the Year

·         Individual Awards

o    Maciej Kunda from Mondi Swiecie (Poland)for Mill Manager of the Year

o    Andreas Kornherr, Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper for Research Achievement of the Year

The Green Business awards seek out the most innovative, ambitious and effective initiatives for achieving environmental sustainability and implementing smart business practice. Mondi is among the finalists in the Carbon emission performance category, which is awarded to companies having shown leadership in realising absolute emissions reductions over the past 2 years.

Contact

Jolene Pozniak, Communications Manager, Uncoated Fine Paper 

Tel: +43 (1) 79013 – 5663, e-Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper Sales GmbH, Kelsenstraße 7, A-1032 Wien

www.mondigroup.com

About Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper

Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper is a business unit of Mondi, a leading international paper and packaging company. In 6 manufacturing facilities, Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper produces office and printing papers with the environment in mind. It complies with the strictest international certification standards and regularly earns credits for this policy such as the #1 position in WWF’s 2010 paper company environmental index.

Its renowned brands such as Color Copy, IQ, MAESTRO®, Nautilus®, BIO TOP 3® or Snegurochka are used as office papers in laser or inkjet printers, and professional printers create brochures, folders, invitations, business cards, letterheads or other high-impact printouts on digital and offset printing presses.

About Mondi:

Mondi is an international paper and packaging company, with production operations across 31 countries and revenues of €5.3 billion in 2009. The Group’s key operations are located in Central Europe, Russia and South Africa and employed 31,000 people on average in 2009.

Mondi is fully integrated across the paper and packaging process, from the growing of wood and the manufacture of pulp and paper (including recycled paper), to the conversion of packaging papers into corrugated packaging and industrial bags.

The Group is principally involved in the manufacture of uncoated fine paper (UFP), packaging paper and converted packaging products, as well as speciality products.

Mondi is a dual listed company, with primary listings on the Johannesburg and London stock exchanges under the ticker codes MND (JSE) and MNDI (LSE) respectively. The Group has been recognised for its sustainability performance through its inclusion in the FTSE4Good UK, Europe and Global indices in 2008 and 2009 and the JSE’s Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Index in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

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