Sappi
Ms. Wessels has worked for Sappi since 2001 holding progressively more senior positions. After starting in R&D at Saiccor Mill, she transitioned into a Customer Technical Services role, which covered both the applications R&D and Customer Technical Services. She brings a strong technical background to her new role, coupled with significant customer relationship management experience, and regular engagement on sustainability related matters.
In addition to her role as GM Technical on the DP Business team, she is a member of the GTMT. She obtained her PhD in Organic Chemistry in 2002 from UKZN and PMD (with distinction) from GIBS. She is the global winner of the Sappi Technical Innovation Award for 2005, amongst other accolades.
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Sappi Limited is a woodfiber company focused on providing graphic/printing papers, packaging and specialty papers, dissolving wood pulp (DWP), as well as products in adjacent fields, including nanocellulose and lignosulfonate. The Company's segments include North America, Europe and Southern Africa. Its range of graphic paper products is used by printers in the production of books, brochures, magazines, catalogues, direct mail and various other print applications; packaging and specialty papers are used in the manufacture of such products as soup sachets, carry bags, cosmetic and confectionery packaging, boxes for agricultural products for export, tissue wadding for household tissue products and casting release papers used by suppliers to the fashion, textiles, automobile and household industries, and DWP products are used around the world by converters to create viscose fiber for clothing and textiles, pharmaceutical products, as well as a range of consumer and household products.