Sappi Southern Africa’s ground-breaking waste to biofuels project, aims to produce ethanol from paper waste sludge at an industrial scale, for use in biofuels.
Sappi’s Tugela mill is important because it offers containerboard packaging.
Back in August, Atish Singh, Senior Process Engineer, at Sappi, said “to begin with, we identified our production bottlenecks and determined that the forming section upgrade would be carried out first.”
According to “She is Forestry” an organization subcontracted by Sappi to tell stories of women engineers, another benefit to the project, is its outreach programme to rural schools.
The Programme has profiled phenomenal women to inspire others.
One such woman, is Zinhle Ngubane, a Master’s student at the University of Stellenbosch, working on the ethanol pilot project at the Sappi Tugela Mill in Mandeni, Northern KwaZulu-Natal.
She comes from Ulundi in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, is a single mom who encourages young people, to persevere and pursue their dreams.
Picture: “She is Forestry”