Oriental Japan has created a machine, the White Goat, that turns shredded papers into toilet paper that, it says, is soft and ready for use.

For every 40 sheets of office paper fed into it, the machine produces a coreless roll of toilet paper. The process takes half an hour and the cost of a roll is $0.11, according to the company's publicity.

The machine weighs 600 kg and is 1.8 meters tall. It is available for $100,000. For more information: http://www.orikankyou.com/white/products.html

Metso will supply two fine paper machine rebuilds for Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Limited subsidiary mills in China. The total value of the orders is approximately €10 million. The orders are a continuation to Metso's earlier deliveries to Shandong Chenming Paper.

Metso's delivery to Wuhan Chenming Hanyang Papers PM 1 in Wuhan, Hubei province will include a ValSizer film size press, a TurnFloat air dryer and an upgrade of the after-dryer section. A rebuild of the press section with a SymBelt shoe press and an upgrade at the BCTMP (bleached chemithermomechanical pulp) plant will be supplied to Shouguang Chenming Art Papers PM 5 in Shouguang, Shandong province. The rebuilt Wuhan PM 1 is scheduled to start up late 2010, the rebuilt Shouguang PM 5 in 2011.

Wuhan Chenming Hanyang Paper Co., Ltd. and Shouguang Chenming Art Paper Co., Ltd. are subsidiaries of Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Limited, one of the biggest paper producers in China. In 2008, the companys paper production capacity was over 3 million tons, turnover over EUR 2.0 billion and the number of employees 17,000.

The Federal Court has ordered APRIL Fine Paper Trading, a Singapore-based based pulp and paper company, and its local subsidiary, to pay $4m in penalties for price fixing in the Australian market.

After the two companies agreed to admit certain facts for the purposes of the proceedings, the court ordered APRIL Fine Paper Trading to pay $3,250,000 for its involvement in fixing the price of copy paper and uncoated woodfree folio paper supplied to Australian customers. APRIL International Marketing Services Australia will pay $750,000 in penalties for its ancillary involvement.

In submissions to the court APRIL Fine Paper Trading admitted it had taken part in 18 meetings with competitors between December 2000 and January 2004. At the meetings, APRIL Fine Paper Trading made arrangements or understandings with competitors about the average price of paper sold, and it was alleged that the company gave effect to these arrangements in its Australian pricing.

Justice Bennett noted in her judgement, "The conduct at the meetings was an arrangement which arose in circumstances where the participants were seeking to achieve stability in pricing by avoiding competition amongst themselves. The conduct was deliberate, and the meetings were held in secret."

However Justice Bennett also noted that the penalties were significantly discounted, due to the cooperation of the two APRIL companies.

Also commenting, Graeme Samuel chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says, "This matter sends a strong message that the ACCC will pursue alleged cartel arrangements made overseas by foreign corporations that affect Australian prices and consumers, in this case for a basic commodity like copy paper."

"Although the time available for the overhaul was extremely short, the reconditioned spreader roll is running very well. Some other spreader rolls will also soon require reconditioning but we have nothing to worry about because we have Metso, a professional team to do it," says Deputy Maintenance Manager Hu Jinguo.

The Jiangxi Chenming mill in China is now familiar with the roll overhaul services of Metso's Guangzhou service center. "Metso really showed its professionalism on this project," says Hu Jinguo, Deputy Maintenance Manager for Jiangxi Chenming PM 1.

Jiangxi Chenming PM 1 (wire width 8,600 mm, design speed 2,000 m/min) is one of the high-speed machines of Chenming Group. Started up in March, 2005, PM 1 mainly makes light weight coated paper at a rate in excess of 1,000 metric tons per day.

This machine was supplied by Metso and its spreader rolls were manufactured by another supplier. Hu Jinguo explains: "After three years of operation some of the spreader rolls were starting to experience runnability problems, increased vibration or bearing failures, which made them very difficult to run. The problems were serious and had an influence on spreading efficiency and machine runnability.

The condition of one press section spreader roll was getting very serious and we decided to remove it from the machine at the next 10-day annual shutdown. Our spare roll for the position had been sent out earlier for maintenance and was still unavailable, which made the situation quite challenging. We contacted Metso's Guangzhou service center and informed them of our need to get the existing spreader roll reconditioned within the upcoming 10-day shutdown. We also ordered a new spare spreader roll for the press section from Metso."

Metso was willing to take on the spreader roll reconditioning challenge. In the course of the 10-day annual shutdown the spreader roll was taken out of the machine and transported to the Guangzhou workshop. The roll went through a complete reconditioning where all roll parts were inspected and consumables, including bearings, spool couplings and seals, were replaced with new parts. Some of the spools were repaired due to bearing seat wear and distortion. After several days of work, the spreader roll was reassembled and it was ready for a test run. A heat buildup problem was discovered during the test run in one of the tending side spools.

The roll was taken back to the workshop and the problem was solved. The final test run gave excellent results, and the roll was shipped back to the customer mill. This challenging spreader roll reconditioning project was performed, from machine to machine, within the 10-day turnaround time promised.

Metso's first service center to serve the pulp and paper industry in China was opened in 2001 in Wuxi, Jiangsu province. The expansion of the Wuxi service center was completed in March 2008, which doubled overall service capacity. In line with its commitment to Chinese papermakers, Metso opened a second service center in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in January 2009, and a third center is currently being built in Zibo, Shandong province.

The Indonesian subsidiary of Lenzing AG, PT. South Pacific Viscose (SPV) has started up first successful trials of its new fourth production line. Regular operation is expected to commence in the course of the second quarter. The new line will produce viscose fibers for textile applications and for the nonwovens industry. Production is intended for the domestic Indonesian market, as well as for export.

A total investment of about USD 150 mill. makes the construction of the fourth SPV line the biggest individual investment project of the Lenzing Group in recent years. Up to now a total of more than USD 500 mill. have been invested into SPV. The project took 18 months to complete, with key components supplied by Lenzing's subsidiary Lenzing Technik.

The additional 60,000 tons of nominal annual capacity of this jumbo line boost total SPV capacity to 220,000 tons of viscose fibers per year, maintaining SPV's position as the leading Asian, and the world's second-biggest viscose fiber production site after Lenzing in Upper Austria with its annual capacity of about 255,000 tons. SPV's sales are going to exceed USD 400 mill. over the next years. The overall production capacity of the Lenzing Group with fiber productions sites in Austria, Indonesia, China, Great Britain and the United States will for the present be increased to about 670.000 tons of cellulose fibers.

Due to the strong demand for Lenzing fibers, a further debottlenecking program will be started along with the start-up of regular production. This will, still in 2010, increase SPV's total annual capacity by another 18,000 tons to 238,000 tons.

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Intermost Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: IMOT, which filed an application to change its name to Uni Core Holdings Corporation, and referred to as "UCHC"), an experienced 'company doctor' and aggressive 'incubator' of mid- to large-size companies in China, is pleased to announce that IMOT is in the process of acquiring one of the leading Environmental Paper Products companies in China, APT Paper Product Company (referred to as "APT").

APT is based in Shenzhen, with over 19 years history in the industry in China. Being an OEM, APT manufactures "Honey Comb packaging materials" for LED and Plasma products for a lot of big companies and expensive and fragile product clients, such as Wal-Mart, Costco, Sam's Club, Sony, Nokia, DHL, Haier, Hisense and other well-known companies.

Background of the Acquisition
In March 2009, one of the investors, FFBC Group from Taiwan, approached IMOT to discuss this acquisition which was concluded in September 2009.

IMOT considered this project to have good potential since all the products are environmentally designed and will never become obsolete. Besides, the products are made according to clients' designs and requirements, so they will always meet client needs.

Honeycomb paper products packing industry has a huge market with big potential and wide prospects, and considering APT's industry knowhow, experience and the advanced machinery from Holland, we are confident that the company can be groomed as the market leader in "Honey Comb" products. This is the common goal of both APT and IMOT in this acquisition.

Return on Investment (ROI)
IMOT shall take over an estimated total asset value of around US$22 million, depending on the final audit and valuation result, with additional share issuance.

Based on the forecast of US$6 million profits after tax per annum, the ROI is around 27% per annum. For details, please refer to the Financial Forecast posted on the IMOT website.

This acquisition represents a breakthrough of IMOT's business to become an incubator for the modern green packing and honeycomb paper products packing industry in the next three years. Again, we expect to spin this project off for IPO within a 3-year period.

About Intermost Corporation (with plans to change its name to Uni Core Holdings Corporation)
Founded in the USA in September 1998, Intermost Corporation was the first Chinese Internet company listed on the US OTC Bulletin Board (stock symbol: IMOT) in December 1998. Intermost Corporation (with plans to change its name to Uni Core Holdings Corporation) has evolved into a 'company doctor' and 'incubator' of mid- to large-size companies that have good potential and profitable products in the market which are desperate for help from experts who can help them grow by assisting them in obtaining public or private financing in China, including company diagnosis services; consulting services; mergers and acquisitions; incubating; raise fund or financing; assistance to get public listing for mid- to large-size companies, etc.

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Between 2000 and 2005, Chinese timber imports tripled from 10 million to 30 million cubic metres. The import of sawn solid wood products also experienced a similar trend. During the second quarter of 2009, China was the world's second-biggest importer of sawn softwood products.

The biggest volumes originate from Russia and Canada. Imports from Europe remain relatively modest. During the first six months of this year, almost 30% more sawn solid wood products were imported than during the corresponding period in 2008.

Chinese wood businesses visiting SCA
Autumn 2009 several wood finishing companies from visited SCAs saw mills in Tunadal, Bollsta, Rundvik and Munksund. Several of SCA's customers from China expressed the hope of establishing a close collaborative relationship with the aim of securing longterm and reliable supplies of raw material.

Swedish wood has become popular in China, partly due to IKEA starting operations there. "The lighter Nordic wood varieties are seen as modern and trendy amongst young Chinese," says Edmunt Tong, SCA in China. Spruce and pine from Scandinavia have increasingly replaced dark wood varieties in furniture and interior design.

Doing business together since 2005
Since 2005, SCA Timber, working in collaboration with a wood finishing company in Southern China, has licensed the manufacture of window components from Swedish raw material for distribution to customers in Italy and the United Kingdom.

However, the focus has recently shifted to the sale of sawn timber to companies who produce items for the local market. The 1.3 billion Chinese, who are rapidly garnering an increasingly higher standard of living, constitute what is an almost insatiable market.

One such company is Shenzhen Sampo Furniture, the owner of which CEO is Guo Xian Yang. Previously his company manufactured pine furniture for the Japanese market. When demand for furniture in Japan fell, Yang decided to focus on the domestic Chinese market instead.

Today, his company has more than 70 stores in 20 or so Chinese cities. In a few years, he estimates he will be selling his furniture in more than 500 stores. "I work from the conviction that each store will generate sales of USD 100,000 a month," notes Yang delightedly.

Wood finishing for the export market
Another customer category in China being prioritised by SCA is those companies which manufacture products for the export market. Simon Wang is CEO of Zhanjiang Huapin Wooden Products, whose 300 employees produce doors made from pine, primarily for customers in the UK and Ireland, but also for customers in the Middle East.

"We make around 150,000 door sets per year," says Wang, "both in solid and veneered woods. But we're now also taking a look at furnishing components such as panels and mouldings, made from both pine and spruce."

Wholesalers and distributors
A third customer category for SCA in China is timber wholesalers and distributors on the domestic market. One of these companies is Jiang Men Gao Hong, which will soon be celebrating 10 years of importing wood raw material intended for use in sauna furnishing and furniture manufacture.

The continued strength of the Australian dollar and the increase in the size and competitiveness of manufacturers elsewhere in the world is making it more difficult for Australian manufacturers in both domestic and export markets, according to the Australian Plantation Products and Paper Industry Council (AP3).

The Council outlines that the recent decision by PaperlinX to close its Wesley Vale pulp and paper mill and part of the Burnie facility is yet another confirmation of the major challenges facing Australian manufacturing.

Richard Stanton, CEO of A3P says, "The resources boom is providing huge benefits for the Australian economy as a whole and certain sectors and regions in particular. However, the boom is also having negative consequences for manufacturing and for those regions and communities that do not have large endowments of key natural resources."

He continues, "Australian pulp and paper manufacturers are competing against producers who receive a range of subsidies and benefits including free or cheap finance, generous renewable energy and fuel subsidies, and lower regulatory standards for environmental protection and employment conditions."

The Australian pulp and paper industry produces some $9bn of finished product each year including newsprint, packaging, printing, writing and industrial papers along with tissue and other sanitary products, according to the Council.

The A3P continues that the vast majority of these products are sold in the domestic market and in New Zealand, but these markets are increasingly being targeted by low cost producers in countries such as China and Indonesia. Australia must maintain a strong anti-dumping system to ensure Australian manufacturing is not unfairly disadvantaged, the Council states.

Also according to the A3p, the Australian pulp and paper industry does have a number of competitive advantages including;

* High quality, reasonably priced, sustainably managed fibre supply (wood and recovered paper);

* Competitively priced energy and an ability to increase renewable energy production from biomass;

* Skilled labour

* Stable business and regulatory environments

The council outlines that the pulp and paper manufacturing facilities require continuous large scale capital investment to remain competitive. Some $2bn has been invested in the industry in Australia in the past five years but even this investment is not enough to maintain the capacity of the industry and its ability to compete internationally.

Stanton also says, "The announcement by PaperlinX is sad news for the company's employees, contractors and suppliers and the communities concerned. These mills have made a substantial contribution to the Tasmanian and Australian economies over many decades."

Ferrostaal has bought the conventional printing machinery business of CPI Group in Australia and New Zealand, including the distribution of flagship brands, Komori (offset printing presses), Wohlenberg (guillotines and perfect binders), Baumann (postpress handling equipment) and Osako (saddle stitchers). Brian Moore reports.

The deal was announced in a letter to the Australian Stock Exchange this morning from CPI Group managing director, Bernard Cassell, who said, "The sale is part of CPI's strategic plan to concentrate more on its core business. We are delighted to be able to enter the arrangements with Ferrostaal who are a proven supplier to this market."

Financial arrangements of the transaction have not been disclosed.

Ferrostaal is taking over related spare parts inventory, selected sales and service staff including Gerard Wintle, and assume responsibility for all service and outstanding warranty obligations of the brands involved.

CPI will continue to sell digital finishing and wide format equipment and related consumables.

In an interview with Australian Printer, Ferrostaal CEO, Markus Haefeli said that he was delighted with the transaction. "Since parting the ways with manroland last year, Ferrostaal has been looking carefully for a top of the range brand and in Komori, we now have it," he explained.

"Komori, together with the other market-leading brands acquired through the CPI purchase will further strengthen Ferrostaal's position as the graphic arts economy continues to recover in Australia and New Zealand."

The CPI deal has brought to a climax an aggressive search by Haefeli for top flight brands to compliment the Ferrostaal range.

"Ferrostaal is strongly committed globally to the printing industry and over the last 12 months has demonstrated this with substantial investment in people, infrastructure and brands that make it a major player both in conventional and digital print."

Those relationships include a tie-up with Canon in digital print and a soon-to-be announced representation deal with a major prepress manufacturer including both heavy metal and consumables to replace Ferrostaal's distribution arrangement with Kodak which was terminated earlier this year.

Haefeli expects the deal with CPI to be concluded in the next week and that the transfer of people, brands and inventory will be completed immediately thereafter.

Despite the financial upheavel of 2008-9, Ferrostaal during this time went through a change of majority ownership from the German MAN group to the IPIC (International Petroleum Investment Company, Abu Dhabi) with the resulting infusion of substantial funds for its continued growth and expansion. Though involved in other high capital investment areas such as oil and infrastructure, Ferrostaal is very seriously committed to print, as its investment in Australia and overseas continues to show, says Haefeli.

"There is minimal overlap of brands - the Ferrostaal and CPI range have proven very complimentary - and we are looking forward to growing our business with our existing customer base as well as exploring the possibilities of a whole new group of customers in the graphic arts industry."

The parent company of bearing and motion control products supplier NSK Canada Inc. -- NSK Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, has won the Award of the Director-General of the Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) at the Eco-Efficiency Awards 2009, hosted by the Japan Environmental Efficiency Forum.

This award, the top prize, was given in recognition of Neco (NSK Eco-efficiency Indicators), unique environmental efficiency indicators that NSK developed to quantitatively measure the ecological friendliness of NSK products. NSK was presented with the prize at Eco-Products 2009 on December 11, 2009.

Neco, for which NSK won the award, is a set of indicators that NSK introduced in 2008 to measure the ecological friendliness of all NSK products using its own unique calculation formulas. These indicators enable NSK to quantitatively measure how much an individual NSK-developed product can contribute to the environment. They do so by demonstrating how much better the product can perform than its predecessor in terms of ecological efficiency using numerical values obtained by dividing product value (life and performance of the product) by the environmental burden it creates (weight and power consumption of the product).

NSK received this prize not only because Neco has helped stimulate ecological innovations by numerically demonstrating the environmental friendliness of products and so enabling all products to be evaluated using virtually the same indicators, but also because it can be applied to technological developments, helping NSK to communicate the ecological friendliness of its products to its business partners.

As a manufacturer, NSK says it will continue to carry out the corporate activities that it is engaged in to contribute to the creation of a more sustainable society that will be both economically rich and friendly to the environment through its constant pursuit of products and services of the highest quality that are as reliable and energy efficient as possible.

Sponsored by METI , the Eco-Efficiency Awards were launched in 2005 to help contribute to the further growth of Japanese industries. These awards are intended to simultaneously promote both environment issues and the economy, while also strengthening Japanese businesses using less energy and fewer resources than in other countries so as to increase the competitiveness of Japanese companies and encouraging technological innovations with a view to achieving greater ecological efficiency.

This award is presented in recognition of either corporate activities that contribute to improving socioeconomic conditions while also helping to reduce environmental impact or products produced as a result of such activities.

For more information on NSK Ltd., visit www.nsk.com