American Green Paper Developer JJ Green Paper Announces Its Partnership With Cerax SA
American Green Paper Developer JJ Green Paper Announces Its Partnership With Cerax SA. American Green Paper Developer JJ Green Paper has announced its partnership with Cerax SA, which is the country’s largest wax producer. J&J Green Paper has developed a unique compound that replaces the polyethylene chemical lamination process currently being used worldwide.
The companies disclosed an agreement in principle to make J&J’s patented JANUS moisture-proof coating at Cerax’s Jet Park, Johannesburg, South Africa facility, a factory with the current capacity to produce 24,000 metric tons of specialty waxes per year wih room for further expansion. The paper industry has substantial impacts on earth’s resources, its inhabitants and the climate. It is one of the word’s biggest polluters as well as one of the heaviest users of fresh water and energy. Ironically, it both relies on and destroys the world’s forests; the same forests that have huge potential in mitigating climate change. The loss of national forests continues to run at the unsustainable pace of 7.6 million hectares per year. The company believes recycling is key to minimising the paper’s industry’s footprint.
Cerax was established in 1982 (as SARPRI) by Ian Prior and Pete Sargent. The focus was the trading, blending and solidification of waxes and wax derived products. For the past 37 years the business has grown significantly in this area as well as adding capacity to produce functionalised waxes, speciality blends and formulations for multiple industries, in markets across the world. The business is currently owned and run by a young team of chemical engineers, formulation specialists, scientists and sales directors.
For almost 35 years, Cerax has been producing high-quality industrial waxes on the African continent,” Stuart Prior, Managing Director of Cerax told Business Wire. “We consider ourselves a market leader and welcome the opportunity to partner with J&J Green Paper to usher in a new era of paper products to be delivered globally that will ‘do well by doing good.’”
