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COMPANY'S OPERATIONS
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
COMPANY'S OPERATIONS  
COMPANY'S OPERATIONS

1.COMPANY’S OPERATIONS

 

Suzano S.A., together with its subsidiaries (“Suzano” or collectively “Company”), is a public company with its headquarters office in the city of Salvador, State of Bahia, Brazil.

Suzano owns shares traded in B3 S.A. (“Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão - “B3”), listed on the New Market under the ticker SUZB3. On December 10, 2018, Suzano began trading its American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") in a ratio of 1 (one) common share, Level II, traded in the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SUZ, pursuant to a program approved by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (“CVM”).

The Company holds 11 industrial units, located in Aracruz (Espírito Santo, State), Belém (Pará, State), Eunápolis (Bahia, State) and Mucuri (Bahia, State), Fortaleza (Ceará, State), Imperatriz (Maranhão, State), Jacareí, Limeira, Rio Verde and Suzano (São Paulo, State) and Três Lagoas (Mato Grosso do Sul, State).

These units produce hardwood pulp from eucalyptus, paper (coated paper, paperboard, uncoated paper and cut size paper) and packages of sanitary paper (consumer goods - tissue) to serve the domestic and foreign markets.

Pulp and paper are sold in the foreign market directly by Suzano, as well as through its wholly-owned subsidiaries in Argentina, the United States of America, Switzerland, Austria and sales offices in China.

The Company's corporate purpose also includes the commercial operation of eucalyptus forest for its own use, the operation of port terminals, and the holding of interest, as partner or shareholder, in any other company or project, and the generation and sale of electricity.

The Company is controlled by Suzano Holding S.A., through a Voting Agreement whereby it holds 45.85% of the common shares of its share capital.

These unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial information was approved by Executive Board on August 12, 2020.

1.1.Equity interest

The Company holds equity interest in the following entities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

% equity interest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type of

  

Accounting

  

June 30,

  

December 31,

 

Entity

  

Main activity

  

Country

  

investment

  

method

  

2020

  

2019

 

AGFA – Com. Adm. e Participações Ltda.

 

Holding

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Asapir Produção Florestal e Comércio Ltda. 

 

Eucalyptus cultivation

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

CelluForce Inc.

 

Nanocrystalline pulp research and development

 

Canada

 

Direct

 

Fair value through other comprehensive income

 

 8.30

 8.30

%

Comercial e Agrícola Paineiras Ltda.

 

Lease of reforestation land

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

99.99

99.99

%

Ensyn Corporation

 

Bio fuel research and development

 

United States of America

 

Direct

 

Equity

 

 25.30

 25.30

%

Facepa - Fábrica de Papel da Amazônia S.A.

 

Industrialization and commercialization of tissue paper

 

Brazil

 

Direct/Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

 92.80

 92.80

%

Fibria Celulose (USA) Inc.

 

Business office

 

United States of America

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

Fibria Terminal de Celulose de Santos SPE S.A.

 

Port operation

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

Fibria Overseas Finance Ltd.

 

Financial fundraising

 

Cayman Island

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

Fibria Terminais Portuários S.A.

 

Port operation

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

FuturaGene AgriDev Xinjiang Company Ltd.

 

Biotechnology research and development

 

China

 

Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

%

FuturaGene Biotechnology Shangai Company Ltd.

 

Biotechnology research and development

 

China

 

Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

%

FuturaGene Brasil Tecnologia Ltda.

 

Biotechnology research and development

 

Brazil

 

Direct/Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

%

FuturaGene Delaware Inc.

 

Biotechnology research and development

 

United States of America

 

Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

%

FuturaGene Hong Kong Ltd.

 

Biotechnology research and development

 

Hong Kong

 

Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

%

FuturaGene Inc.

 

Biotechnology research and development

 

United States of America

 

Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

%

FuturaGene Israel Ltd.

 

Biotechnology research and development

 

Israel

 

Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

%

FuturaGene Ltd.

 

Biotechnology research and development

 

England

 

Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

%

F&E Tecnologia do Brasil S.A. (1)

 

Biofuel production, except alcohol

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

 100.00

 100.00

F&E Technologies LLC

 

Biofuel production, except alcohol

 

United States of America

 

Direct

 

Equity

 

50.00

50.00

Gansu FuturaGene Biotech Co. Ltd. (2)

 

Biotechnology research and development

 

China

 

Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

100.00

%

Ibema Companhia Brasileira de Papel

 

Industrialization and commercialization of paperboard

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Equity

 

 49.90

 49.90

%

Itacel - Terminal de Celulose de Itaqui S.A.

 

Port operation

 

Brazil

 

Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Maxcel Empreendimentos e Participações S.A.

 

Holding

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Mucuri Energética S.A.

 

Power generation and distribution

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Ondurman Empreendimentos Imobiliários Ltda.

 

Lease of reforestation land

 

Brazil

 

Direct/Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Paineiras Logística e Transportes Ltda.

 

Road freight transport

 

Brazil

 

Direct /Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Portocel - Terminal Espec. Barra do Riacho S.A.

 

Port operation

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

51.00

51.00

%

Projetos Especiais e Investimentos Ltda.

 

Commercialization of equipment and parts

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Rio Verde Participações e Propriedades Rurais S.A. (3)

 

Forest assets

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Spinnova OY

 

Research and development of sustainable raw materials (wood) for the textile industry

 

Finland

 

Direct

 

Equity

 

24.06

24.06

%

Stenfar S.A. Indl. Coml. Imp. Y. Exp.

 

Commercialization of computer paper and materials

 

Argentine

 

Direct /Indirect

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Suzano Austria GmbH.

 

Business office

 

Austria

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Suzano Canada Inc.

 

Lignin research and development

 

Canada

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Suzano International Trade GmbH.

 

Business office

 

Austria

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Suzano Participações do Brasil Ltda. (4)

 

Holding

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

100.00

%

Suzano Pulp and Paper America Inc.

 

Business office

 

United States of America

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Suzano Pulp and Paper Europe S.A.

 

Business office

 

Switzerland

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Suzano Shanghai Ltd. (5)

 

Customer relationship services

 

China

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

 

 

Suzano Trading Ltd.

 

Business office

 

Cayman Island

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

%

Suzano Trading International KFT

 

Business office

 

Hungary

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

100.00

100.00

Veracel Celulose S.A. (6)

 

Industrialization, commercialization and exportation of pulp

 

Brazil

 

Direct

 

Consolidated

 

50.00

50.00


 

 

1)

On May 31, 2020, reorganization of equity interest as a result of the merger of Suzano Participações do Brasil Ltda. by Suzano S.A. Previously, the participation of this entity was directly held by Suzano Participações do Brasil Ltda. and indirectly by Suzano S.A. After the merger, it was held directly by Suzano S.A.

2)

On April 8, 2020, disposal of equity interest.

3)

On May 31, 2020, reorganization of equity interest as a result of the merger of Suzano Participações do Brasil Ltda. by Suzano S.A. Previously, the participation of this entity was directly held by Suzano Participações do Brasil Ltda. and indirectly by Suzano S.A. After the merger, it was held directly by Suzano S.A.

4)

On May 31, 2020, merger of the entity by Suzano S.A.

5)

On February 26, 2020, establishment of legal entity arising from corporate reorganization.

6)

Joint operation with Stora Enso, a company located in Finland

 

 

1.2.  Major events in the six-month period ended June 30, 2020

1.2.1.Effects arising from COVID 19

With the advent of the pandemic COVID-19, Suzano has adopted and has maintained preventive and mitigating measures, in compliance with the rules and policies established by national and international health authorities, in order to minimize as far as possible, the harmful effects of the pandemic of COVID-19, popularly known as the new coronavirus, referring to the safety of people , society and their businesses.

Thus Company's initiatives are based on three pillars: (i) protection for people (ii) protection for society and (iii) protection for business.

(i)Protection for people: in order to provide security to its employees and third parties who in its operations, Suzano adopted a series of measures aimed at minimizing the exposure of its team and / or mitigating exposure risks.

(ii)Protection of society: one of Suzano's three cultural drivers is: “It is only good for us, if it is good for the world”. Therefore, from the beginning of the pandemic to the present, the Company has adopted a series of measures to protect society, including:

•      Donation of toilet paper, napkins and disposable diapers produced by the Company for needy regions.

•      Acquisition of 159 respirators and 1,000,000 hospital masks for donation to the Federal and State Governments.

•      Participation in joint action with Positivo Tecnologia, Klabin, Flextronics and Embraer, to support the Brazilian company Magnamed to deliver respirators to the Federal Government until August 2020. Suzano's disbursement in this action was R$ 9,584.

•      Construction of a field hospital in Teixeira de Freitas (BA) in conjunction with Veracel, which has already been handed over to the state government and opened in July 2020.

•      Establishement a partnership with Fatec of Capão Bonito for the production of gel alcohol.

•      Loan of forklifts to move donations received by the Red Cross.

•      Maintenance of all direct jobs at this time.

•      Maintenance, for 90 days (from March to June 2020) of payment of 100% of the cost of the payroll of service providers' workers who had their activities suspended due to the pandemic, aiming at the consequent preservation of jobs.

•      Creation of the a support program for small suppliers, a social support program for small farmers to sell their products through the home delivery system in 38 communities supported by Suzano's Rural and Territorial Development Program (“PDRT”) in 5 states and social program with the objective of provide 125,000 masks in communities for donation in 5 states.

•      Launch a program to support its portfolio of small and medium-sized paper customers entitled “Tamo Junto” with the objective of ensuring that these companies have the financial and management capacity to resume activities.

The disbursements made for carrying out the social actions implemented by Suzano, totaled R$48,024 through June 30, 2020 (Note 29).

(iii)Protection for business: to date, the Company continues with its normal operations and a crisis management committee has been implemented.

The paper and pulp sector were recognized by the World Health Organization (“WHO”), as well as by several countries, as a producer of goods essential to society. Therefore, in order to fulfill the responsibility arising from the essentiality of the business, Suzano has taken measures to ensure, to the greatest extent possible, operational normality and full service to its customers, increasing the level of wood and raw material inventories in the factories and has been advancing its inventories of finished goods product bringing them closer to their customers to mitigate possible risks of disruption in the factories' supply chain and the sale of their products.

The current situation resulting from the coronavirus also implies a higher credit risk, especially for its customers in the paper business. Thus, the Company has also been monitoring the evolution of this risk and implementing measures to mitigate it, and so far, there has been no significant financial impact.

Due to the social isolation measures adopted in Brazil and in several countries around the world, causing schools and offices to close, for example, the demand for printing and writing papers was reduced. In light of this situation, as announced by paper producers in several countries around the world, Suzano decided to temporarily reduce its paper production volume. As previously disclosed in the quarterly information for the period ended March 31, 2020, the Company temporarily stopped production at the paper production lines of the Mucuri and Rio Verde units. However, the activities of the factories were resumed at the beginning of July 2020.

Finally, it is also worth noting that, as a result of the current scenario, the Company has made and maintained a vast communication effort to further increase the interaction with its main stakeholders, with the objective of guaranteeing the adequate transparency and flow of information with the them in a timely manner to the dynamics of the social and economic conjuncture.

All the main communications made by the Company to update its measures and activities in the context of Covid-19, are available on the Company's Investor Relations website.