M-real Corporation, part of Metsäliitto Group, renews its management and reporting structure to better reflect the company’s strategy and the focus on fresh forest fibre paperboard.M-real operates through two business areas that are also the company’s reporting segments from first…
Metso will supply Mälarenergi’s combined heat and power plant (CHP) in Västerås, Sweden, with the world’s largest recovered fuel fired boiler. The new boiler with a fuel input of 167 MW will utilize circulating fluidized bed (CFB) technology and it…
Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:00

Hydrocycloning System for European Mill

Noss will supply a hydrocycloning system to a mill in Europe. The system start-up is scheduled for April 2012.The Noss system consists of a RADISCREEN-C protection screen followed by a 5-stage PERICLONE system. The system is designed for a production…
Stora Enso has decided to renew its Business Area and Reporting Segment structure. The Group will combine the paper reporting segments Newsprint and Book Paper, Magazine Paper and Fine Paper into one Business Area and reporting segment called Printing and…
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 11:00

BASF to build TDI plant in Ludwigshafen

BASF has announced that it will build a single-train 300,000 metric tons per year production plant for TDI (toluene diisocyanate) and expand additional plants for its precursors at its site in Ludwigshafen. These include the construction of a new hydrogen…
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 09:00

Södra tallies the winter's storms

Södra has now taken stock of the aftermath of the storms that hit southern Sweden from the first day of Advent in 2011. To date some 750,000 cubic metres of timber has been blown down in its members' areas. "This…
  M-real Corporation, part of Metsäliitto Group, has agreed to divest the Reflex mill’s Premium Paper business to Walzmühle AG that is owned by Hahnemühle FineArt GmbH, the Hahnemühle management and private shareholders of Hahnemühle. The divestment includes the complete…
Thursday, 12 January 2012 13:30

The New Burgo Polska Branch is Born

Burgo is now closer to its Polish customers: the brand newPolish branch - Burgo Polska - has just started operating in Warsaw. The professional and experienced staff - led by Katarzyna Borowska, Managing Director - aims at providing publishers, printers and paper merchants…
Metso has received an important automation order for Stora Enso Narew Sp.zo.o new containerboard production line at Ostroleka in Poland. The production line will produce 455.000 tonnes of light-weighted testliner per year. The EUR 285 million investment project is scheduled…
Thursday, 12 January 2012 10:08

CellMark Acquires Alcan International Network

CellMark, the world’s leading marketer of pulp and paper, announced today that its acquisition of Alcan International Network (AIN) closed on December 30. AIN is a global supply chain services company that provides valuable business links between manufacturers and customers…
Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won an order for compact heat exchangers from a refinery in Russia. The order, worth approximately SEK 70 million, was booked late December 2011.…
Thursday, 05 January 2012 12:00

Vacon reorganizes Executive Management Team

Vacon Plc is reshaping its Executive Management Team and re-allocating responsibilities. The main objectives of the changes are to streamline the Group's management model, clarify the reporting hierarchy within the global organization, and raise efficiency. In the new model for…
Metso’s management will host a pre-silent Q&A session prior to stepping into silent period. The purpose of these sessions is to serve all financial community parties equally and increase understanding of the earlier stated information by giving an opportunity to…
Wednesday, 04 January 2012 15:34

Propapier PM2 mill site evaluated

The environmental sustainability of Progroup AG's Propapier´s PM2 mill site, located in Germany, has been successfully analysed with Pöyry´s Green Mill Index. "We want to be forerunners concerning environmental sustainability issues. Pöyry's Green Mill Index gave us a complete overview…
Wednesday, 04 January 2012 13:33

Rottneros denies sales rumour

In response to today’s article in Dagens Industri, Rottneros denies that any assignment has been given to advisors to dispose of any of the Group’s pulp mills. However, and as previously communicated, we are conducting active discussions about finding new…