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Toscotec has started up on 16 January, according to the project time schedule, a new Ahead 1.5M tissue line for Chinese Ningxia Bauhinia Paper Co.Ltd, located in Yinchuan.Ningxia Bauhinia Paper Co. Ltd. was founded in 1989 and is part of…
China is now the world’s largest importer of softwood lumber and logs despite a slowdown in imports during the 4Q/11, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly Reduced activities in the housing construction sector in China decreased importation of softwood logs and…
PMT Italia has been selected by Jiangmen Xinghui Paper Mill Co., Ltd. as a key partner for its new “White Line Chip Board” machine project. The new board machine will be installed in the Jiangmen, Guangdong province, close to the…
Metso’s unique offering, combining process performance control and product quality management, gains popularity in China where end product quality becomes one key focus area. Recently, Metso has received several significant automation orders from Chinese small- and mid-size boardmakers, for example…
To realize Walki's strong growth ambitions in the Asia Pacific region, it has been decided that as of January 1, 2012 Mikael Nováky will fully concentrate on growing the business in the Asian markets in his role as Vice President,…
Brighter, sharper and cost effective color copying will soon be added to consumers’ benefit from Double A. Double A and the National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC), signed a research collaboration agreement this morning to focus on nanotechnological analysis of toner impact…
Strengthening Competence of Household Paper Products Business Nippon Paper Group, Inc. (President: Yoshio Haga) has decided to shut down the production facilities at the Iwakuni Mill (Iwakuni-shi, Yamaguchi Prefecture; Manager: Takashi Yamaguchi) of Nippon Paper Crecia Co., Ltd. (President: Kazuhiro…
The Metso-supplied fine paper production line, PM 1, of Zhanjiang Chenming Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. came successfully on stream on September 1, 2011 at the company’s greenfield pulp and paper mill in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, China. The 11.15-m-wide…
International technology Group ANDRITZ has received important orders to supply steel yankee cylinders used in drying processes for tissue, board, and paper.  The steel yankee delivers high drying rates with energy efficiency. The customers ordering steel yankees for tissue production…
PMT workshops have successfully concluded the entire pre-erection of a completely new Copy Paper Machine for the Company Advance Paper Mill 3 (doubleA) in Thailand. The new machine sections are now being shipped to the mill site for erection. The…
APP Timber (initially incorporated as Asia Panel Products hence "APP Timber"), PEFC International is pleased to welcome the first Asian-based company in its membership. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, APP Timber specializes in the supply of imported timber-related products for the Asian…
Vacon has been sentenced to pay compensation in the court case in China. Vacon was accused of importing components with the wrong customs tariff classification. The court ordered Vacon to pay compensation totalling EUR 5.5 million which consists of unpaid…
Metso was recently awarded a contract to supply Daio Paper Corporation with a rebuild of their hardwood kraft fiber line at their Mishima mill, located on Shikuko island, in Japan. Start-up of the rebuilt line is scheduled for the end…
Metso will supply a Metso DNA automation system, various measurement solutions and analyzers to BILT Graphic Paper Products Limited’s (BGPPL) pulp mill in Ballarshah, India. The main process equipment was relocated from Metsä-Botnia’s Kaskinen pulp mill that was closed down…
PT Graha Cemerlang Paper Utama (GCPU), a subsidiary of Kompas Gramedia Group, has brought its second brand-new Intelli-Tissue™ 2100 machine on stream at its Cikampek mill in Indonesia. PMP tissue machine started-up smoothly and easily (plug & play philosophy) and…
Ecolab Inc. was named an Outstanding Enterprise in Delivering Corporate Social Responsibility for the second consecutive year by China Business News (CBN), China's premier business media group. At the CBN 2011 China Corporate Social Responsibility Award ceremony today in Guangzhou,…
The expansion of pulp production in China continues and the lack of domestic wood fiber sources has resulted in record imports of wood chips in 2011, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.   Chinese pulp mills increasingly have to rely on…
HengAn sets speed record at 2,000 m/min for Advantage ViscoNip press at Weifang mill The Metso-supplied Advantage DCT 200 tissue production line, equipped with the unique Advantage ViscoNip long-nip press, has been running at a record breaking speed of 2,000…

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