Wednesday, 07 October 2020 14:24
Inauguration of the world’s first fossil-free biomethanol plant
On Wednesday, 7 October, Sweden’s Minister for Enterprise Ibrahim Baylan inaugurated Södra’s plant for commercial biomethanol at the pulp mill in Mönsterås. Members of the European Parliament Fredrik Federley, Jytte Guteland and Jessica Polfjärd were present at the inauguration as…
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Tuesday, 06 October 2020 19:36
NOK 15.9 million to Borregaard
Borregaard has received a commitment of NOK 15.9 million in funding from the Research Council of Norway (NFR) for an innovation project that will maximise the value of raw materials and reduce waste streams in industrial processes. In Project XyloBond,…
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Tuesday, 06 October 2020 18:28
Metsä Board’s professional magazine wins an Ozzie in Folio Awards
Metsä Board, a leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards and part of Metsä Group, has recently won a prestigious Ozzie Award for its stakeholder communications magazine spring 2020 issue. The award was given for design excellence in the…
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Tuesday, 06 October 2020 18:09
Stora Enso to sponsor FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Planica 2023 and Trondheim 2025
Stora Enso will be the presenting sponsor for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2023 in Planica, Slovenia and in Trondheim, Norway in 2025. This marks the fifth and sixth time that Stora Enso will be sponsoring the Nordic World…
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Friday, 02 October 2020 07:47
Dell’Osso steps down as iT’s Tissue Chairman
Marco Dell’Osso has stepped down from his position as Chairman of Tissue Italy, the organization behind the iT’s Tissue events. Having been instrumental in the creation and development of the unique iT’s Tissue brand since its inception in 2013, Dell’Osso…
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Friday, 02 October 2020 07:16
Mondi shines by winning two awards for sustainable food packaging
Mondi, a leading global packaging and paper manufacturer, has been recognised in this year’s Austrian Green Star Packaging Awards for two recent sustainable packaging innovations developed using its customer-centric approach, EcoSolutions: Two products developed using Mondi’s EcoSolutions approach have been…
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Friday, 02 October 2020 07:07
VPK introduces one brand for all corrugated packaging divisions
VPK’s corrugated packaging division will operate under a single brand name: VPK Packaging. The new name replaces the Rigid, Ondulys and Peterson brands in the UK, Ireland, France and the Nordic countries respectively. A new unified logo and visual identity…
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Thursday, 01 October 2020 06:08
Toscotec’s tissue line exceeds production target at EuroVast Group
Italian tissue manufacturer EuroVast fired up a new MODULO-PLUS tissue machine supplied by Toscotec at its Cartiera della Basilica paper mill in Villa Basilica, Lucca, Italy. PM5 is running efficiently at the speed of 1,600 m/min and since its start-up…
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Tuesday, 29 September 2020 07:02
BillerudKorsnäs launches recyclable paper-based flow wrap – challenging the standard in confectionery packaging
BillerudKorsnäs joins forces with Syntegon Technology to launch Recyclable Flow Wrap, a paper based packaging solution that enables a shift from conventional plastic to renewable and recyclable materials. Flow wrap is a type of flexible packaging used for many products…
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Monday, 28 September 2020 07:11
ANDRITZ to complete and start up the folding boxboard production line at JSC Management Company of the Holding Belorusskie oboi, Dobrush, Belarus
International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from JSC Management Company of the Holding Belorusskie oboi, Belarus, to complete and start up its production line for folding boxboard. Start-up is scheduled for 2021. The board machine is designed to…
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Monday, 28 September 2020 07:08
Metsä Fibre and Aquaflow signed preliminary agreement on Kemi bioproduct mill’s wastewater treatment plant
Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, and Aquaflow have signed a preliminary agreement concerning a wastewater treatment plant for the Kemi bioproduct mill. The plant would treat the wastewaters of the entire Kemi mill integrate. The agreement covers equipment delivery and…
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Monday, 28 September 2020 07:01
BillerudKorsnäs contributes to positive climate effect
The role of the forest in combating climate change is important and well known. It is, however, less known that the products from the forest's raw material contribute to large amounts of fossil oil remaining underground. This means, among other…
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Friday, 25 September 2020 07:30
A.Celli to supply an E-WIND® T80S rewinder to Aktul Kagit
The Turkish Tissue producer chooses A.Celli Paper for its new investment Aktül Kağıt is a company that produces one of the softest toilet paper and most absorbent paper towel in Turkey with eco-friendly production practices. Aktül Kağıt started to produce…
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Friday, 25 September 2020 07:26
17TH FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
The title of the seventeenth Fundamental Research Symposium will be, ‘Advances in Pulp and Paper Research, Cambridge 2021’ and the programme will include invited perspective papers from experts in the field. We are proceeding with planning this conference under the…
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Friday, 25 September 2020 07:13
A culture of innovation: Mondi presents its latest product and business highlights in uncoated fine paper
Mondi, global leader in packaging and paper, unveils its latest uncoated fine paper highlights and innovations. As the main supplier of uncoated fine paper in Europe (including Russia), and a tradition of papermaking going back to 1793, Mondi has been…
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