Tuesday, 02 October 2012 08:39
Sappi Alfeld Mill to refocus production to meet strong growth
Sappi Alfeld Mill to refocus production to meet strong growth in demand from the Release Liner and Flexpack paper markets. Coated paper production to be moved to other Sappi Mills in Europe. In response to strong growth and positive…
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Monday, 01 October 2012 11:19
Jan-Peter Sander named Senior Vice President of BASF’s business unit Personal Care Europe
Jan-Peter Sander (53) has been named Senior Vice President of BASF’s business unit Personal Care Europe, and will take up the role on October 1, 2012. Prior to his appointment, he held the same position at BASF’ business unit Pigments…
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Monday, 01 October 2012 08:57
Metsä Group’s tissue and cooking paper business area to begin statutory negotiations in Finland
Metsä Tissue, Metsä Group’s tissue and cooking paper business, is to commence statutory negotiations in its Finnish units. The negotiations are part of company-wide organisational restructuring targeted to improve profitability. The statutory negotiations announced today will concern white-collar personnel in Finland,…
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Friday, 28 September 2012 10:37
BASF increases prices for polymer dispersions, polymer powders and acrylic resins
With effect from October 01, 2012, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase prices in Europe, Africa and Western Asia for polymer dispersions, redispersible powders and acrylic resins by 50 - 100 Euro per metric ton. The price increase is necessary…
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012 22:48
Sonia Bertetto is the new PMT Tissue Sales Manager
Sonia Bertetto has been appointed to the position of Tissue Sales Manager at PMT Italia with the task of consolidating PMT’s Tissue Business in its traditional geographic areas and expanding it worldwide, reporting to PMT Sales Director. Sonia Bertetto earned…
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Monday, 24 September 2012 16:40
Mondi partners with Tieto and Metso
Mondi partners with Tieto and Metso in largest single one time advance process control project in the pulp and paper industry. Mondi has partnered with Tieto and Metso to to increase the efficiency and profitability of the pulp and paper…
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Monday, 24 September 2012 15:15
Revision of the industry guideline for food contact compliance
CEPI, the Confederation of European Paper Industries, and CITPA, the Confederation of Paper and Board Converters in Europe, have revised their Industry Guideline for the compliance of paper and board materials and articles for food contact. The purpose of the…
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Monday, 24 September 2012 09:28
Metsä Tissue to renew its organization
Metsä Tissue, part of Metsä Group and a major European tissue and cooking paper products supplier, will update its organization. As a first step, the Management Team will be restructured. The new roles and responsibilities will be valid from 1…
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Monday, 24 September 2012 09:16
E-Crane®/Indusign buys Polish Steel Construction Company Famaba
The E-Crane® Group of Companies, leading manufacturer of cranes for handling bulk materials, has succeeded in the acquisition of the Polish company ‘Famaba’, an ISO9001 certified company with 275 employees and revenues exceeding 20 million USD/16 million EURO in the…
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Monday, 24 September 2012 09:08
Tieto and Efecte to launch a cloud-based self-service channel
Tieto and Efecte are launching an automated self-service channel for corporate customers, providing employees with a single location for subscribing to all services required for their work. Implemented as a cloud service, the self-service channel improves work productivity as employees…
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Monday, 24 September 2012 08:58
Bischof + Klein is testing the use of replenishable raw materials in packaging
Bischof + Klein is intensively testing the use of replenishable raw materials in packaging and film solutions for consumer articles. "However, this customer group's interest in using such basic materials is still very limited due to the considerably higher…
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Friday, 21 September 2012 09:17
Pankaboard improves main features of its coated cartonboard grades
Pankaboard is reintroducing its main cartonboard grades PankaBrite and PankaWhite with clearly improved product features and performance. Over the past year the company has made substantial efforts and investments in order to bring forward the overall product quality of its…
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 09:50
Metso to adjust its Finnish operations
Metso is to begin statutory employer-employee negotiations on personnel reductions and layoffs in several of its units serving the paper industry and in its paper production service business. Negotiations will cover approximately 4,100 employees at Metso’s Finnish units serving the…
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Monday, 17 September 2012 23:02
Focus on speciality papers - Zellcheming and VPM at Kelhleim Fibres
Last Friday, Kelheim Fibres hosted the district group meeting for the Bavarian branches of Zellcheming and VPM (Paper Association Munich). This year’s meeting was all about speciality papers: the presentations by members concentrated on different aspects of that topic -…
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Monday, 17 September 2012 14:00
Duropack Group sells operations in Germany and the Czech Republic to Mondi Group
Duropack Group with its headquarters in Vienna, the leading producer of corrugated board packaging in East- and Southeast-Europe, has signed a contract today to sell its operations Duropack Wellpappe in Ansbach (Germany) and Duropack Bupak in Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic)…
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