Tuesday, 05 May 2015 08:17
Kemira Oyj completes the acquisition of AkzoNobel paper chemicals business
Kemira has completed the acquisition of AkzoNobel paper chemicals business announced on July 8, 2014. The value of the transaction is EUR 153 million and it will become cash-effective in the second quarter of 2015. The acquired business is expected…
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Monday, 04 May 2015 09:23
Valmet makes a donation to help earthquake victims in Nepal
Valmet has made a donation to support catastrophe victims in Nepal, which was hit by a severe earthquake on Saturday, April 25. Valmet agreed to channel the EUR 10,000 contribution through a humanitarian organization, the Finnish Red Cross. The donation…
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Monday, 04 May 2015 09:18
Valmet inaugurated the extension of its filter fabric production and R&D center in Ovar, Portugal
Valmet has inaugurated the extension of its location in Ovar, Portugal, which has become the company's center of filter fabric production and R&D. The unit manufactures filter fabrics for solid and liquid filtration and dust filtration, as well as felts…
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Monday, 04 May 2015 09:16
Metsä Board’s VP, Investor Relations and Communications moves to a new position
Metsä Board’s VP, Investor Relations and Communications, Juha Laine has been appointed SVP, Communications of Metsä Group as of 4 May 2015. Laine continues to be responsible for Metsä Board’s investor relations activities until the successor has been appointed. Process…
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Monday, 04 May 2015 08:43
Great interest in the spring meeting of PPT
Some 80 persons within the Swedish forest-based industry gathered for the spring meeting with PPT, Swedish Pulp & Paper Technology Group, on April 22, 2015 at the Sweco headquarters in Stockholm. A full day program focused on issues of current…
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Monday, 04 May 2015 08:39
Carina Olson to leave Södra
Carina Olson, CFO and Director of Purchasing, will step down from her position to assume the role of CFO for Praktikertjänst. The process of recruiting her successor has commenced. “I have spent 14 fantastic years at Södra, but am now…
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Monday, 04 May 2015 08:35
Handwritten resistance to smartphone use
How can we persuade schoolchildren and teenagers to loosen their grip on their smartphones and write by hand instead? Bernard Bouvet is chairman of the Union Professionnelle de la Carte Postale, (UPCP), an advocacy organisation for the postcard industry in…
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Thursday, 30 April 2015 10:24
SCA Manchester millionaires twice over
The Manchester mill of tissue makers SCA has passed the significant milestone of two million hours without a single lost time injury accident. The mill at Trafford Park employs 135 people and is the home of premium household bands Cushelle…
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Thursday, 30 April 2015 10:21
European paper industry welcomes Valmet as a new partner
The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) is happy to announce a new partnership with Valmet. CEPI and Valmet have already collaborated in the past, notably on the European Paper Week. The new status will deepen an established good relationship,…
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Thursday, 30 April 2015 10:20
Metsä Board divests Gohrsmühle mill in Germany
Metsä Board Corporation, a part of Metsä Group, has agreed to divest 100 per cent of its shares in Metsä Board Zanders GmbH including all related liabilities to mutares AG and its partner company. Metsä Board Zanders GmbH contains the…
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Wednesday, 29 April 2015 09:46
Metsä Board and Tieto deepen their partnership – Tieto to deliver TIPS MES to Metsä Board’s Husum mill
The world’s leading paperboard producer Metsä Board has chosen Tieto to deliver a complete manufacturing execution system (MES) to its mill in Husum, Sweden. Tieto is a strong player in the board and paper industry: Tieto has installed more than…
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:25
Primary school children attempt to write the World's longest letter
Hundreds of children from schools in Cumbria, UK are coming together to write the world’s longest letter during National Stationery Week 2015. Writing messages on continuous rolls of paper supplied by James Cropper Paper, the letter will measure a huge…
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015 10:39
Two new Valmet-supplied tissue lines started up at Hayat Kimya in Turkey and Russia
Hayat Kimya's new Advantage DCT 200TS tissue line, PM5, was started up in March 2015 by a joint Valmet and Hayat Kimya team. The new line, at the Mersin mill in Turkey, came smoothly on stream according to schedule and…
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015 10:35
ANDRITZ and Metsä Fibre Oy finalized contract to supply key production technologies for the new bioproduct pulp mill in Finland
International technology Group ANDRITZ and Metsä Fibre have finalized the contract to deliver key production technologies for a new bioproduct pulp mill with an annual capacity of 1.3 million tons of pulp in Äänekoski, Finland. The respective letter of intent…
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015 07:26
New screen element from Voith: SplitScreen substantially simplifies screw press maintenance
Voith has brought to market a new screen element for the screw press. SplitScreen is the first screen element consisting of a supporting structure and a screen plate, enabling maintenance and inspection time to be significantly reduced compared with conventional…
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