SsangYong C&B Inc., a South Korean company headquartered in Jochiwon-eup, Seong ,Korea has closed the purchase of a new tissue machine with a production capacity of 91 tpd from Toscotec. The machine will be installed in Jochiwon plant and is expected to come on stream within the end of 2013.

Ssangyong C&B Inc. produces and markets paper and tissues, such as facial, bath, kitchen towels, adult diapers, and household products. The company was founded in 1980 and is owned by Mr. David Kim. Ssangyong C&B Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Monalisa Co. Ltd. Today is one of the biggest tissue producer and converter in South Korea with a strong popular brand in the country. The meaning of Ssangyong is “two dragons” while C&B states for “clean and best”

The group owns three tissue plants in different cities: one tissue production and converting plant located in Jochiwon, one tissue and converting plant situated in Jeonju and a converting plant located in Daejon.

Today the total production capacity is 130.000 tons/year, reached with seven tissue machines: four of them are located in Jochiwon plant, while three other ones are in Jeonju plant.

The new Toscotec AHEAD 1.5S tissue machine is a crescent former with single-layer headbox, double press configuration, a Steel Yankee Dryer TT SYD-12FT and a Reel section TT Reel-P.

The scope of supply includes also high efficiency gas fired hood, steam & condensate system and a steam recovery boiler fed by hood exhaust air provided by Toscotec associate Milltech. A shaft puller for expandable shafts is also included in the supply.

The machine operating speed is 1700 mpm with a net web width of 2730 mm.

The project will be managed by Toscotec and Milltech including also engineering and overall services and will be focused on energy saving concepts.

Tissue and hygiene in South Korea recorded retail value growth in 2011 due to growing demand for premium products with specialized functionality, antibiotic ingredients and better quality raw materials. This rise in demand for higher priced brands boosted overall retail value growth. The new investment from SsangYong C&B Inc. with state of the art Toscotec technology will help the Company to maintain its leading position in this growing and challenging market.

Volga and Turinskiy pulpmills increased sales, but lowered net profit in January-September 2012

Large Russian forest industry companies continue to publish quarterly reports. Turinskiy pulpmill (Sverdlovsk region) reported growth of sales by 2.7% year-on-year to 863.6 million Rubles (€21.6 million).

Net profit, however, declined by 41.2% down to 20.65 million Rubles (€0.51 million).

Sales of Volga newsprint mill (Nizhniy Novgorod region) amounted to 7.88 billion Rubles (€197 million), which is 10.8% higher year-on-year. Mill’s net profit, however, also fell (2.6 times down to 21.19 million Rubles – €0.53 million).

Log export from Russia declined by 21% to 12.5 million cu m in 9 months of 2012 – WhatWood Analytics

Moscow, November 29. Physical volume of roundwood export from Russia declined by 21% in January-September 2012 year-on-year down to 12.5 million cu m, as said in the report published by WhatWood analytic service. Export cost declined by 27.3% on-year down to $1.1 billion.

Negative growth of log export from Russia was due to falling deliveries to three key markets, namely China (-26%), Finland (-9.6%) and Japan (-28.4%). Share of these three countries in total export amounts to 90%.

"Falling demand was also affected by decrease in harvesting volume (-2.3% in January-September 2012 year-on-year) and new export delivery terms after Russia’s WTO accession. Many Russian exporters came across difficulties in getting their licenses", as said in WhatWood Analytics report.

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Sonoco Recycling, LLC, a unit of Sonoco, has invested $4 million in its Columbia, S.C., materials recovery facility (MRF), allowing the facility to accept additional types of materials. Because of this, Richland County residents will now be able to recycle more of their household materials such as composite cans, glass, magazines and other types of plastics.

Sonoco Recycling has added three sorting screens for corrugated cardboard and paper sorting, an optical sorter to retrieve plastic, and a new glass crusher that allows the facility to collect whole and broken glass bottles, jugs and jars.

"Sonoco has always prided itself on 'closing the loop,'" said Ray Howard, general manager, Sonoco Recycling. "We use recycled materials in our products, which are then recycled by the consumer and come back to us for processing. With this upgrade, we're now able to recycle even more of the packaging produced by Sonoco, in addition to the other items we collect that aren't produced by us."

Derek Trader, division marketing manager, Global Rigid Paper and Closures, agreed, "Sonoco is one of the largest providers of composite can packaging in the world for products such as coffee or Pringles^® potato crisps. The ability to both produce and recycle this item is exciting for us and further demonstrates the Company's commitment to sustainable business practices."

New items accepted:

• Composite cans – cardboard containers with metal bottoms, such as coffee or Pringles containers
• Paper – office paper, junk mail, magazines, chipboard, wet-pack boxes and gable-top cartons
• Plastics – most plastics #1-7, including plastic bottles, jugs, jars and containers like yogurt cups and margarine tubes, milk crates, curbside recycling bins and carts, laundry baskets, plastic lawn furniture and toys, and five-gallon buckets
• Glass – whole and broken glass bottles, jugs and jars

The facility is still unable to accept tissue paper, paper plates and cups, waxed cardboard, plastic bags and films, containers that have held toxic substances, metal lids on glass or plastic items, glass cups or plates, window glass or ceramics.

A recycling leader with 50 locations and expertise worldwide, Sonoco Recycling annually collects approximately 3 million tons of old corrugated containers, various grades of paper, metals and plastics. In addition, the Company has experts who provide secure, reliable and innovative recycling solutions to residential and commercial customers.

Sonoco Recycling currently operates six material recovery facilities (MRFs) and serves nearly 150 communities in which curbside-collected residential and commercial materials are processed. The Company also provides recycling programs which identify waste reduction opportunities that reduce operating expenses for many of the largest consumer product companies in the U.S.

Adforum and Inter Ads-Brooks welcome you to the new meeting platform for the Indian Pulp and Paper industry. Taking place in the Bombay Convention and Exhibition Centre on December 13-15, 2012, IPX India is an exhibition and conference focusing on the fastest growing pulp and paper industry in the world today! At IPX India you will meet Indian and International suppliers of machinery, equipment, accessories and raw material for the pulp, paper and allied industries.

The conference will be held on a stage in the middle of the exhibition floor making the conference available to everyone visiting IPX India, meaning no more conference fees and an easier way for all participants to meet. Business related seminars and social activities will make sure that you, as a visitor, will get the most out of your IPX India experience.

The main theme of the two day long technical conference, Paper Industry – a world of opportunities, will focus on the possibilities and challenges facing the current and future Indian pulp and paper industry. Key note speaker of the event is Mr. Timo Suhonen, Poyry Management Consulting OY, Finland. Other international speakers include names like Mikael Åbacka and Mikael Svedman from Finland and Dr. Martin Ragnar from Sweden. Through lectures, panel discussions and case studies, renowned Indian and International experts and senior industry professionals will give their views on different themes within the main focus area. For full updated conference programme, please click here.

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At an event in Moscow in December a seventh box will be presented, this time by the Swedish photographer and filmmaker Jens Assur.

For almost two years Iggesund Paperboard has been running the Black Box Project, with exhibitions in cities like Paris, London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Milan and New York. Iggesund has challenged a number of well-known international designers and design companies to fill a black box of a specified format with contents which in some way test the limits of Iggesund’s Invercote paperboard. Six designers have taken part in the project so far. When the doors open on 6 December to an exhibition at the Flacon Club in Moscow, a new box will be unveiled with contents created by the Swedish photographer and film director Jens Assur.

Assur began his career as a photographer for the daily press. In the 1990s he became Sweden’s most award-winning photojournalist. He gradually left the press world and began focusing on filmmaking. His films such as The Last Dog in Rwanda and Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys have won multiple international awards. Partly as a result of this recognition, at the beginning of 2012 he was the first Scandinavian to win the Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker Award, the Sundance Festival’s prize for promising filmmakers.

“When I was asked to take part in the Black Box Project I didn’t hesitate a second,” he says enthusiastically. “As a creative artist, it’s rare that I have the opportunity to work so freely and at such a high artistic level in projects developed by customers. But in this case we could do so on both a conceptual and intellectual level.”

Carlo Einarsson, Director Market Communications at Iggesund Paperboard, is very pleased with Assur’s participation in the project.  

“We’re looking for creative individuals who really push the limits of what can be done with Invercote,” he explains. ”But the project is also a tribute to all the designers who have chosen over the years to make fantastic creations using Invercote as their starting point. We’re especially pleased by the great interest our exhibitions have received from designers and the graphic industry in many parts of the world.”

Einarsson says that the Black Box Project is not a traditional advertising campaign in which the client expresses detailed wishes and closely supervises the project’s execution. The participating designers have great freedom – the only stipulations are that they must work with Invercote and create something that reflects their own distinctiveness and Invercote’s possibilities.

“The degree of freedom combined with the opportunity to create something extraordinary has made it easy to find interested participants,” he says. “A number of designers have contacted us and asked to be part of the project. We’re very satisfied with the response so far, both to our exhibitions and to our web pages about the project.

“In a world where the choice of materials is unfortunately often a matter of habit, it’s important for us to showcase the extra possibilities which Invercote offers designers to fully realise their creative ambitions.” Last November the Black Box Project presented a fifth designer’s work in Hamburg. The newcomer was designer and illustrator Sebastian Onufszak, based in Augsburg, Germany, but with all of Europe as his workplace. His contribution to the exhibition was unveiled at an event at the Prototyp Museum in Hamburg. This spring saw the addition of a work by the Japanese-American paper sculptor Jeff Nishinaka of Los Angeles in conjunction with a Black Box exhibition in Milan.

The other exhibitors are the Dutch firm of van Heertum Design, who are technical magicians who delight in combining printing techniques, use more than 30 inks and varnishes, and then add extra finishing touches, to the joy of printing aficionados and the despair of production economists. Landor, Paris elegantly demonstrates how designers break through all boundaries established by their clients. Brunazzi & Associati from Turin have created a survival kit for pasta lovers with both pasta tongs and a colander, all made of paperboard. And New York-based Frenchman Marc Benhamou presents his concept of beauty in a new interpretation of the Tarot’s 22 Major Arcana cards.

Sebastian Onufszak’s creation will now join this series of challenges. His contribution is a film about life as a closed loop system. The film is played on a video player integrated into the paperboard box.

“This project is an adventure and we don’t really know where it will all end,” Carlo Einarsson concludes. “But Invercote is one of the strongest brands on the European paperboard market, and with that as a secure foundation we can dare to try new channels of communication.”

The next Black Box, by photographer and filmmaker Jens Assur, will be presented at the beginning of December in Moscow.

The glue lam panel production at UPM Heinola further processing mill in Finland will cease by mid-December. UPM announced in June 2012 the decision to close down the mill by the end of the year.

UPM has started the “From Job to Job” programme in Heinola in order to alleviate the effects caused by staff reductions in relation to the closing of the mill. The programme, which UPM implements in co-operation with the authorities and partner companies, includes active measures that promote employment and re-training.

Heinola further processing mill employs 27 people. The decision announced today is part of the plan published on 29 June 2012, including restructuring of UPM’s sawmill and further processing operations and  renewal of business strategy in Finland.