Company: SUZ
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-020368
Chunk: 127

Company: Suzano S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 5
Chunk 127
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 all other non-financial covenants, which are required under certain long-term borrowings.

C. Research and development, patents and licenses, etc.

Research and Development

Our Research, Development and Innovation (R& D& I) efforts are organized under a Chief Sustainability, Research and Innovation Officer. This initiative targets enhanced synergy between departments to ensure the sustainability of our forests and operations. It aims to foster business growth and transformation, intending to broaden our market beyond pulp and paper. Additionally, we are committed to strengthening our position as an innovative company dedicated to the SDGs.

Our technology and innovation facilities are spread out to meet the demands and particularities of all of our mills and forest units. The technology centers, where we have our main assets and laboratories, are located in:

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• Aracruz - state of Espírito Santo, Brazil - focusing on the main business (pulp and forest development);

• Itapetininga - state of São Paulo, Brazil - focusing on biotechnology activities with an emphasis on later stage development;

• Jacareí - state of São Paulo, Brazil - focusing on activities related to our eucalyptus breeding program;

• Limeira - state of São Paulo, Brazil - focusing on biorefinement, consumer goods, fluff, packaging and paper developments;

•Burnaby, Canada - focusing on biorefinery research; and

• Rehovoth, Israel - focusing on developments of FuturaGene´s early to mid-stage biotechnology R& D.

Efforts in R& D& I are conducted not only within our research facilities, but also in partnership with various universities, suppliers and private research institutes in Brazil and abroad.

By attempting to improve our processes and to develop innovative and higher quality products in a sustainable way, our research and development activities are mainly directed at increasing forestry productivity, reducing the operational costs and optimizing industrial processes, making our production more efficient, advancing in the value chain with products using our fiber and developing new products through (i) forest management with optimization of natural resources and costs; (ii) robust eucalyptus breeding program; (iii) improving the use of eucalyptus fiber in the manufacture of pulp, paper, packaging, paperboard and consumer goods (tissue, non-woven and diapers); (iv) developing new applications for eucalyptus fiber, including nanomaterials; and (v) developing an eucalyptus bio refinery to obtain renewable base chemicals.