UPM has announced cooperation for release liner recovery with the French subsidiary of Aliplast, an Italian company specializing in the collection and treatment of recovered plastic films. This partnership expands Aliplast’s recycling services to polypropylene (PP) and paper-based release liners…
The target is to produce packaging materials based on recycled raw materials Metso will supply Blue Paper with a grade conversion rebuild of their paper machine at their mill site in Strasbourg, France. The target is to produce packaging materials…
Pankaboard, a leading Finnish specialty cartonboard producer, will open a new sales office in the UK, to strengthen its local presence in the market. The new office and sales execution in the UK is lead by the Regional Sales Director,…
Walki Group, the leading producer of protective packaging materials and technical laminates, announces today that it will expand its production network in Europe by opening a new state of the art manufacturing plant in Wroclaw, Poland. The new plant, which…
On 12 March, the North American pulp and paper company Domtar announced that it had started the operation of a facility for separating lignin from the process at its pulp mill in Plymouth, North Carolina. The facility is the first…
The Board of Directors of Metso Corporation has decided to commence a process to study the potential separation of the company’s Pulp, Paper and Power businesses into a new company, which would be listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock…
Kemira will open a new AKD-emulsion line in Sweden to better serve big sizing clients. New capacity will be available during summer 2013. AKD is an alkyl ketene dimer based sizing agent, which impacts paper and board hydrophobicity or water…
Ahlstrom, a global high performance fiber-based materials company, announces that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS), a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW), to use Ahlstrom's Disruptor® technology in drinking…
Kemira's new organizational structure has been operational since October 1, 2012 and as announced earlier, financial reporting according to the new structure started as of January 1, 2013. Kemira's reporting segments are Paper, Municipal & Industrial, Oil & Mining, and…
In spite of difficult market conditions in its core fiber business, the Lenzing Group succeeded in achieving the second best business result in its history in the 2012 financial year. This can be attributed to new record fiber sales volumes…
Wednesday, 20 March 2013 12:26

Low bids spell end of Södra Cell Tofte sale

Södra is now ceasing efforts to sell Södra Cell Tofte due to the fact that the bids received are too low. This decision will now be reported to the county. If no solution is found during the month-long qualifying period,…
Wednesday, 20 March 2013 10:18

Norske Skog to curtail newsprint production

In order to avoid unnecessary build up of inventory, Norske Skog will temporarily idle one paper machine (PM2) at Norske Skog Skogn from June. PM2 has an annual production capacity of 130 000 tonnes. Skogn has an annual capacity of 550…
Metso has received a repeat order for two complete tissue production lines for the Turkish Hayat Kimya A.S. Each production line will include an Advantage DCT 200 TS tissue machine, and they will be installed at the company’s new mill…
The new Metso Fiber Image Analyzer (Metso FS5) expands the horizons of laboratory testing fiber samples, enabling pulp and paper mills to unlock the true value potential of their raw material for optimum end product quality. Enhanced accuracy, reliability and…
New online measurements and analyses for more stable, productive tissue machine operation Metso's comprehensive tissue machine automation solution is complemented with newly updated products: furnish analysis and control, machinery condition and process stability diagnosis and high speed web break analysis…