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  Ecolab Inc. has celebrated the opening of a manufacturing plant and distribution center in Taicang, China, as part of an expanding company presence within the country. The facility is Ecolab's third-largest in the world and the company's largest in…
  India’s largest producer of branded photo copier and cut-sized office papers, JK Paper Ltd., has awarded a contract to Metso for supply and start up of Metso Paper  Lab, paper and board quality analyzer, for automatic testing of paper…
International technology Group ANDRITZ received an order to supply a new Jetlace nonwovens production line for Precot Meridian Ltd., Coimbatore, India. The line will produce spunlace fabrics for the hygiene and medical industries and is scheduled to start up in…
International technology Group ANDRITZ has successfully started up the world’s largest steel yankee for tissue production at Hengan Group Jinjiang. The PrimeDry Steel Yankee (4.9 m diameter and 6.2 m shell length) is installed in the new ANDRITZ PM15 tissue machine, and…
AkzoNobel has reached an agreement to sell its 75.81 percent shareholding in ICI Pakistan Limited to the Yunus Brothers Group for $152.5 million (€124.4 million). The price represents a premium of 30 percent on the market price when the local…
Metso will rebuild an off-machine coater of the coated woodfree paper production line at the Changhang mill of Hansol Paper Co., Ltd. in South Korea. The rebuilt production line will be fully operational during 2013. The value of the order…
PaperlinX has announced that it has entered into the following agreements:   - to sell its operations in Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia to the Heinzel Group for €19.6m.  The sale price represents a multiple of approximately 10x EBITDA…
On May 8, 2012, the Metso-supplied PM 1 fine paper machine at Zhanjiang Chenming Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. in Zhanjiang City in China set  a woodfree uncoated machine 24-hour world speed record of 1,710 m/min. During the record run,…
AkzoNobel has completed the restructuring of its activities in Pakistan by formally establishing AkzoNobel Pakistan Limited as a separate legal entity from ICI Pakistan. As previously announced, the split means that the company has started the formal sale process to…
  A devastating fire broke out at the Khanna Paper Mills, one of the leading paper manufacturers of the country, on the Amritsar bypass on Tuesday.   The fire that started at about 2: 00 pm from the waste stock…
International technology Group ANDRITZ has successfully started up PM12 tissue machine supplied to Hengan Group Chongqing. Hengan Group, one of the leading tissue producers in China, now has seven ANDRITZ PrimeLine machines in operation. Two more machines will be started…
  Outotec has agreed with Cristal Global, the second largest titanium dioxide pigment producer in the world, on the design and delivery of technology and services for new ilmenite smelting facilities to be located in Jazan Economic City, Saudi Arabia,…
On September 14, 2011, Shanghai Orient Champion Paper started up their new Metso-supplied tissue production line, TM 7, at their facility in Jinshan outside Shanghai, China. Now, less than eight months after the start-up of the first Advantage DCT machine,…
 One of the top corporate social responsibility experts in the Nordic countries specialising in human rights issues, Parul Sharma, will join Stora Enso as Vice President, Global Responsibility, for the Renewable Packaging Business Area on 18 June 2012. Renewable Packaging,…
International technology Group ANDRITZ has successfully started up the PrimeDry Steel Yankee (diameter: 3.7 m; shell length: 4.3 m) supplied to Doh-Ei Paper, Japan. At its Hokkaido mill, Doh-Ei produces 4,500 t/a of facial tissue and 14,500 t/a of toilet tissue from 100% recycled…