Monday, 08 August 2022 09:29
PTC named Overall Leader in Augmented Reality Connected Worker Assessment from PAC
PTC has just announced that, for the fourth consecutive year, it has been named the overall leader and a “Best in Class” vendor for its Vuforia® augmented reality (AR) solution suite in PAC’s Innovation RADAR report. PTC’s Vuforia augmented reality…
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Monday, 08 August 2022 09:22
Large interest in BillerudKorsnäs’ project in Norway
Today the Today the Norway’s Prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre and the Minister of Trade and Industry Jan Christian Vestre visited Viken Skog’s Follum mill in Hønefoss. The plan of BillerudKorsnäs and the Norwegian forest owner group Viken Skog to establish…
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Monday, 08 August 2022 09:03
Change in the Kemira Oyj’s Management Board: Antti Salminen appointed as President, Pulp & Paper segment
Change in the Kemira Oyj’s Management Board: Antti Salminen appointed as President, Pulp & Paper segment Antti SalminenAntti Salminen (1971) has been appointed to lead Kemira’s Pulp & Paper segment as of 15.8.2022. He’s had several prior leadership positions in…
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Wednesday, 03 August 2022 11:02
Monitoring losses with the digitalization solution OnView.MassBalance for more sustainability and transparency in stock preparation
The recycling process in paper production is complex. Fluctuations in fiber quality and the degree of contamination of the recovered paper bales have a direct influence on production output. At the same time, resource efficiency is more important today than…
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Tuesday, 02 August 2022 10:38
Vajda-Papír taps OnCare.eDoc for easy access of technical documentation.
Vajda-Papír has chosen Voith Paper and Toscotec’s digital documentation platform OnCare.eDoc for the comprehensive and user-friendly management of all the technical information of its new tissue line. On 6 July 2022, Vajda-Papír has started up an AHEAD 2.2L tissue machine…
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Tuesday, 02 August 2022 10:25
AGV: Automated Guided Vehicles
Automatic warehouses: current state of the art Automation 4.0 has arrived in warehouses, and it was definitely needed. Perhaps still considered as static places where goods simply remain parked, today warehouses have become and are increasingly becoming dynamic and smart…
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Wednesday, 27 July 2022 11:14
Voith again achieves top ISS ESG rating for sustainability
After 2021, the international rating agency ISS ESG has again awarded the Voith Group’s sustainability performance a B- rating this year. According to the current rating, Voith is among the three best companies worldwide in terms of sustainability, compared with…
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Tuesday, 26 July 2022 12:10
Stora Enso survey finds physical books still outperform e-books in share of hearts and minds, with carbon neutrality a big consideration.
A new survey commissioned by Stora Enso in March 2022 among 2,400 book readers and listeners in the UK, France, Germany and the US showed that people still overwhelmingly prefer physical books (65%) to e-books (21%) or audiobooks (14%). And…
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Tuesday, 26 July 2022 11:33
Fully recyclable Rice Box champions sustainability in sector
DS Smith has partnered with Veetee to create a sector-leading, fully recyclable Rice Box with the aim of removing over 50 tonnes of problem plastic Delivering sustainable packaging with optimal consumer convenience significantly increases a brand’s chance of standing out…
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Monday, 25 July 2022 12:24
Mondi expands capacity in sustainable pet food packaging solutions
Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, is investing nearly €65 million in three Consumer Flexibles packaging plants in Europe in order to meet growing customer demand for sustainable pet food packaging solutions. The European pet food market has…
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Monday, 25 July 2022 11:50
Stora Enso and Northvolt partner to develop wood-based batteries
Stora Enso and Northvolt are joining forces to create sustainable batteries using lignin-based hard carbon produced with renewable wood from the Nordic forests. The aim is to develop the world’s first industrialised battery featuring anode sourced entirely from European raw…
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Friday, 22 July 2022 10:31
A.Celli Paper will supply a paper rewinder for the RDM Group mill in Blendecques
Following the fire that hit RDM Blendecques mill, A.Celli will contribute to the restart of production with a brand new E-WIND® P100 paper rewinder. On March 22 RDM Group reported a fire that occurred in the Blendecques mill, where the…
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Wednesday, 20 July 2022 16:17
EU Commission proposals on mandatory reductions risk causing greater uncertainty for industry in case of gas supply disruptions
The European Commission released today the Winter Preparedness Package. The measures outlined in the package respond to the intertwined needs of European citizens and industry, in the face of a deteriorating situation regarding energy supplies. They also introduce a greater…
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Wednesday, 20 July 2022 11:35
Valmet introduces new reliability monitoring applications for fiber processing equipment
To enhance predictive maintenance, Valmet is launching new reliability monitoring applications for fiber processing equipment. They are part of the Valmet Industrial Internet offering and provide powerful tools for fiber producers to secure equipment availability and to improve process performance.…
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Wednesday, 20 July 2022 11:02
Voith and BTG present joint automation and digitalization portfolio
For maximum savings in pulp and paper production with the help of automation and digitalization, Voith and its wholly owned subsidiary BTG are merging their product portfolios. The two established data platforms, Voith’s OnCumulus and BTG’s dataPARC, will be merged…
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