Tuesday, 03 April 2012 09:00
Ahlstrom's ownership in Jujo Thermal to increase to 50%
Ahlstrom, a high performance materials company, announces that its ownership in associated company Jujo Thermal Ltd. will increase to 50% from the current 41.7%. Jujo Thermal has decided to redeem the shares of its minority shareholder Mitsui & Co. Ltd.…
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Monday, 02 April 2012 11:30
Acosense runner-up in Swedish Cleantech Business Awards
Acosense was selected one of two runner-ups in the prestigious contest Swedish Cleantech Business Award. Minister of Energy, Anna-Karin Hatt was present to announce the winner. The competition was organized for the seventh consecutive year by the Swedish Energy Agency…
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Monday, 02 April 2012 10:30
Endress+Hauser honors its inventors
New record in patent applications – seven awards given Innovators of the Endress+Hauser Group met this year at Maulburg for their 12th inventors' meeting, celebrating a record 225 patent applications. Seven product and process innovations were honored with awards. Curiosity,…
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Friday, 30 March 2012 07:12
UPM Tervasaari mill’s rebuilt paper machine 8 starts after renewal
UPM Tervasaari mill’s paper machine 8, producing label release base papers, has been started-up after major renovation. Modifications have been made throughout the paper machine line in order to increase speed and further improve paper quality. The renewal will increase…
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Thursday, 29 March 2012 13:30
MM Packaging announces closure of Liverpool plant
Mayr-Melnhof Packaging today announced that it is to close its packaging plant in Liverpool. In recent years, the team in Liverpool has worked hard to improve the plant’s competitiveness, in order to keep production at the site. However, the economic…
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Thursday, 29 March 2012 08:02
Alkim Kagit signs Final Acceptance of PM1 Press Rebuild with PMT
The Turkish paper producer Alkim Kagit has signed, with full satisfaction for the fulfilment of all contractual performances, the Final Acceptance of the WF Writing & Printing PM1 Press Section rebuild project realised by PMT in February 2011. The 4…
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:00
Decisions taken by Vacon Plc's Annual General Meeting and the Board of Directors
Vacon Plc's Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held in Vaasa today, 27 March 2012. The AGM adopted the proposal by the Board of Directors to pay a dividend of EUR 0.90 per share i.e. appr. MEUR 13.7 in total. The…
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:30
Norske Skog sells Follum to Viken Skog
Norske Skog has entered into an agreement to sell the Follum site to Viken Skog, which has ambitious, future plans. After the decision to close the mill at Follum, Norske Skog has worked to find relevant stakeholders to create new…
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012 13:54
UPM to rebuild Biological effluent treatment plant.
UPM will begin a large construction project at its Pietarsaari pulp mill to rebuild the mill’s effluent treatment plant. The circa EUR 30 million investment will cover the rebuild of all of the main phases of waste water treatment. The…
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Friday, 23 March 2012 12:40
New CEO of Acosense AB
In January, Linnéa Lindau began her work as new CEO of Acosense AB. Linnéa, 35 years of age, has spent the last ten years working as a business coach at Chalmers Innovation. She is also frequently engaged as director of…
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Thursday, 22 March 2012 10:59
Managers in new positions at Södra
Klara Helstad, Ulf Edman, Magnus Olsson and Stefan Sandberg are taking up new positions at Södra now that Urban Eriksson, President of Södra Interiör, and Per Braconier, Director of Communications, have decided to leave Södra. Klara Helstad, Ulf Edman, Magnus Olsson…
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Thursday, 22 March 2012 07:00
Kemira's AGM: Jukka Viinanen elected as new chairman of the Board of Directors
The Annual General Meeting of Kemira Oyj ("Kemira") approved the Board proposal of a EUR 0.53 dividend per share for the financial year 2011. The Annual General Meeting elected six members (previously seven) to the Board of Directors. Annual General…
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012 09:00
Smurfit Kappa to invest in Townsend Hook Paper Mill
Smurfit Kappa has announced a three-year £98 million (US$154 million) investment project for its recycled paperboard mill in Townsend Hook, Kent, U.K. The installation and commissioning of a custom designed, 5-meter, lightweight recycled container board machine is due to be completed…
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012 08:30
Mondi celebrates World Forest Day and World Water Day
To cultivate greater awareness about World Forest Day (March 21), World Water Day (March 22), and the sustainable management of forest and water resources, Mondi has launched an online site that features a short trivia question and offers prizes for…
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Monday, 19 March 2012 14:15
Invitation to a Q&A session with Outotec's CEO
The first Q&A session in 2012 with Outotec's CEO Pertti Korhonen will be held on Monday 26 March, at 2.00 pm (Finnish time). Theme of the session will be the recent Numcore Ltd acquisition. JOINING VIA WEBCAST To follow the…
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