Company: SUZ
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-020368
Chunk: 129

Company: Suzano S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 5
Chunk 129
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 comprehensive risk assessment, confirming their safety for human and animal health and the environment. By the end of 2024, FuturaGene had obtained a total of eleven approvals for GM eucalyptus varieties, incorporating various trait combinations. Additionally, field trials have demonstrated that our herbicide tolerant eucalyptus management processes offer significant environmental and economic benefits. We continue to be the only company worldwide to have successfully advanced GM eucalyptus from the lab to the field. As a leader in sustainable tree farming, we remain committed to shaping a better future.

Our Forest Management operates to incorporate technological innovation, focusing on increasing productivity and reducing operational costs sustainably to ensure the longevity of the forestry business. This approach is based on three main pillars: communication, expertise, and multidisciplinarity. We have been continuously investing in bringing resilience to the forests of the future, aiming to characterize our genotypes on a large scale and at an early stage regarding their sensitivity to pesticides, resistance to diseases and pests, and tolerance to abiotic stresses. This accelerates the breeding program and minimizes losses right from the first stage by identifying genetic materials that should not be recommended for the next phases.

In 2024, we strengthened our pest biocontrol initiatives and improved algorithms related to weather forecasting and fire risk assessment. Cutting-edge technologies, such as erosion risk mapping and soil and plant analysis through proximal sensing, were implemented, delivering value to those who experience the forest in their daily lives.

All of this is continuously transferred through technological extension, which shares knowledge to enhance planning for previously unpredictable conditions and risks. This allows for better selection and prioritization of planting areas, reducing the impact of our operations and enabling preventive actions to ensure the sustainable future of eucalyptus plantations.

In the Pulp business, the Company bolstered the progress of the Fiber-to-Fiber strategy, especially for the production of tissue paper.

In Biorefinery, 2024 was a milestone year for Ecolig (lignin produced by Suzano), with the sale of the mill's total capacity (20,000 tonnes) and the loyalty of strategic clients. This result stemmed from various developments that enabled the diversification of the portfolio of certified applications, such as the use of lignin in phenolic resins for wood panels, where Ecolig partially substitutes phenolic compounds derived from fossil sources.

In 2024, the Paper and Packaging projects focused on the replacement of fossil products and the use of paper scraps. The Greenpack® Line