Ian Melin-Jones
PulPaper 2010 Helsinki on 1-3 June 2010
Bioenergy adds pace to paper industry and forest sector tradeshow
The forest sector’s interest in matters related to bioenergy will be effectively on display at next June’s PulPaper 2010 event in the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre. Some 80% of exhibition capacity has already been sold for the year’s most international tradeshow.
An international conference on the theme Implementing the new rise will be organised in conjunction with the tradeshow. The conference is divided into half-day sessions, which will focus on sub-themes such as the forest industry’s bioenergy issues, cost-effectiveness and resourcing, solutions in sustainable development and technological breakthroughs. A panel comprising President and CEO of the Metsäliitto Group Kari Jordan, Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT President & CEO Erkki Leppävuori, Professor Emeritus Johan Gullichsen and the philosopher Maija-Riitta Ollila, PhD, will discuss these matters during the opening of the event on Tuesday 1 June.
Bioenergy will be present at the exhibition in the form of a dedicated product group as well as in the programme of the conference. The keynote speech of the bioenergy session on Wednesday 2 June will be delivered by Minister of Economic Affairs Mauri Pekkarinen on the theme National Energy and Climate Strategy – the role of forest and energy efficiency.
China and France participating with pavilions
“There is considerable worldwide interest in PulPaper 2010 and the Asians in particular will be participating strongly. Almost 300 exhibitors have already signed up,” says Project Manager Marcus Bergström, who is in charge of the event.
According to Bergström, the pavilions different countries are erecting in the exhibition area clearly represent a trend this year. “The Chinese are building a pavilion and the French are also assembling a joint section in which around ten companies will participate. The programme slots of the exhibition area’s Speakers corner venue are almost booked solid. About thirty international forest and paper industry publications are presenting their journals and magazines in the Media Partner Centre, where visitors can go to read up on what’s cooking in the sector,” Bergström continues.
PulPaper, now being arranged for the seventh time, is a tradeshow for the pulp, paper and paperboard industries and by far the most international event of this year. Almost half of the exhibitors and more than one-third of visitors have traditionally been foreigners. The PulPaper 2010 event is organised jointly by Adforum, the Paper Engineers’ Association, the Finnish Fair Corporation and Finland’s leading provider of technical training AEL. The previous PulPaper tradeshow was held in 2007 and it attracted over 16,102 visitors from 78 different countries to Helsinki.
PulPaper 2010
Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre 1-3 June 2010
Open: tue-wed 9 am – 5 pm, fri 9 ma – 4 pm
Further information on the pulp and paper industry:
Paper Engineers' Association
President Pirkko Molkentin-Matilainen, tel. +358 9 132 6696,
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Further information about the tradeshow:
Adforum AB, Project Manager Marcus Bergström, +358 9 150 9401
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Further information about the conference:
AEL, Training Manager Rainer Paloniemi, tel. +358 50 547 2724,
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Management Board of Mayr-Melnhof Karton AG reappointed
In yesterday's meeting of the Supervisory Board of Mayr-Melnhof Karton AG Mr. Franz Rappold, Mr. Andreas Blaschke, and Mr. Oliver Schumy have been unanimously reappointed members of the Management Board for a further period of five years. The new term will start on May 15, 2010 and will end on May 14, 2015. The mandate of the Chairman of the Management Board, Mr. Wilhelm Hörmanseder, was already prolonged last year until December 31, 2014.
Mr. Franz Rappold (57 years of age), 27 years with Mayr-Melnhof and since 2002 member of the Management Board, will continue to be responsible for the Cartonboard Division's (MM Karton) sales and marketing activities.
Mr. Andreas Blaschke (48 years of age), 18 years with Mayr-Melnhof and member of the Management Board also since 2002 will continue his mandate as board member for the Packaging Division's (MM Packaging) sales and marketing activities.
Mr. Oliver Schumy (39 years of age) 12 years with Mayr-Melnhof and since 2008 Chief Financial Officer was prolonged in his function.
For further information please contact:
Stephan Sweerts-Sporck, Investor Relations, Mayr-Melnhof Karton AG, Brahmsplatz 6, A-1041 Vienna
Tel.: (+43/1) 50136 – 91180, Fax: (+43/1) 50136 – 91195
e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Website: www.mayr-melnhof.com
Safety Ventilation to Reduce Costs (White Paper)
Energy is a significant cost of production. As energy costs rise and fall, the increases are difficult to pass on to customers in the price of products and services. But regardless of current energy costs and current trends, a more energy-efficient process is more competitive.
Safe drying of solvents requires excess ventilation air. Extra air keeps the vaporized solvents well below the concentration where they might burn or explode. A lot of energy goes towards heating ventilation air to the drying temperature.
This white paper explains how safely using an analyzer to continuously monitor the solvent concentration allows the ventilation rate to be adjusted to what is needed for the typical solvent load, or even continuously adjusted to match the actual solvent load at any given time, so there is no need to heat a large excess quantity of ventilation air. It also highlights & explains how to employ the safety ventilation methods found in NFPA-86.
To download a copy visit:www.controlinstruments.com
Ron Eklund joins Klass Associates Inc.
Ron Eklund has joined Klass Associates Inc. as a Senior Associate. Ron specializes in barrier coatings, papermaking process, wet end systems, metering size presses, pigmented coating, calendering, product development, printing, capital projects and paper machine start-ups.
He has over four decades of experience with Weyerhaeuser in R&D and technical positions. Ron has been a TAPPI Member for over 30 years and is very active in the Coating & Graphic Arts Division.
For more info contact:
Charles P.Klass
Tel: 001 (727) 395-9435
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Black Liquor Scorecard: 21 Companies Earned $6.5 Billion in 2009
The $6.5 billion in controversial black-liquor credits earned in 2009 by 21 publicly traded pulp and paper companies was far more than their total profit for the year.
Despite the government’s unintended largesse, the 21 companies had combined net income of about $3 billion, according to an exclusive Dead Tree Edition analysis of documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Without the U.S. government subsidy, only nine of the companies would have been profitable in 2009, In fact, three recipients – Weyerhaeuser, NewPage, and Sappi – together lost $1.1 billion last year despite receiving nearly $800 million from the black-liquor program that expired on Dec. 31. AbitibiBowater, the one recipient that has not reported earnings for the 4th Quarter, almost certainly lost hundreds of millions as well.
At least one-fourth of the country’s capacity to make kraft pulp is in the hands of privately held companies that don’t have to file with the SEC. Assuming they took advantage of the “alternative fuel mixture” program in the same way that their publicly held peers did, the federal government probably shelled out between $8 and $9 billion to pay to do what they would have done anyway – use black liquor, a pulp byproduct, as a fuel source for their pulp operations.
Several of the public companies' reports state that they expect to receive no subsidies for black liquor this year. And they're right.
But don’t tell that to Congress or the news media. Obama Joins in on the Black Liquor Two-Step documented how sloppy reporting by leading news organizations had allowed Democratic Congress members to claim they were saving money by excluding black liquor from the new Cellulosic Biofuel Producer Credits (CBPC) -- a program that black liquor couldn't qualify for anyway.
In the 12 days since that was published, the black-liquor silliness in Washington has gotten even worse, with Republicans joining the shell game. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) tried to play taxpayer hero this week by proposing to “pay” for a new jobs program by closing the non-existent CBPC loophole. But Democrats blocked that effort because they have already committed to using the bogus savings for healthcare reform.
Bunning's effort to exclude black liquor from CBPC "is absolutely meritorious and should be adopted whatever else Congress does," The Washington Post opined in a fact-challenged editorial. "This particular piece of corporate welfare showers paper companies with about $2.5 billion per year . . . that encourages them to generate power with 'black liquor,' an 'alternative fuel.'" Nope. Not a dime has been paid to pulp and paper companies under CBPC.
Here are the 21 publicly traded companies, listed according to the amount of credits they received. The first number is the amount of black-liquor credits reported, the second is 2009 net income:
* International Paper: $2.06 billion in black liquor credits; $2.36 billion net income
* Smurfit-Stone Container: $654 million; $8 million
* Domtar: $498 million; $310 million
* MeadWestvaco: $375 million; $225 million
* Weyerhaeuser: $344 million; $-545 million
* NewPage: $304 million; $-308 million
* AbitibiBowater: $284 million (estimated); $-801 million through 3rd Quarter
* Verso Paper: $239 million; $106 million
* Temple-Inland: $218 million; $206 million
* Boise: $208 million; $154 million
* Rayonier: $205 million; $313 million
* Kapstone Paper and Packaging: $178 million; $80 million
* Packaging Corporation of America: $176 million; $266 million
* Clearwater Paper: $171 million; $182 million
* Graphic Packaging: $147 million; $56 million
* SAPPI: $136 million; $-251 million
* Buckeye Technologies: $130 million; $154 million
* P.H. Glatfelter: $108 million; $123 million
* Rock-Tenn: $75 million; $279 million
* Appleton Papers: $18 million; $25 million
* Wausau: $14 million; $21 million
Source: Dead Tree Edition
New high-pressure tank cleaner hits the market
A new high-pressure tank cleaner designed for removing residues from large tanks and reactors is available.
The new AA190-HP5 High Pressure Tank Cleaner from Spraying Systems Co. operates at pressures up to 5000 psi for high-impact cleaning of tanks up to 80 feet in diameter. The units are powered by an air motor positioned outside the tank away from harmful caustics.
AA190-HP5 Tank Cleaners are equipped with two or four specially designed solid stream nozzles. These nozzles provide increased impact and better stream integrity than conventional solid stream nozzles for significantly better cleaning performance. The nozzles rotate in multiple axes to provide complete coverage of the entire tank.
Designed for long service life, the gears are enclosed in PTFE sleeves for protection from outside solids and residue build-up, making maintenance requirements minimal.
The AA190-HP5 can be installed permanently or moved from tank to tank. High-quality swivel hoist rings on the flange assist with installation and removal.
The cleaner is ideal for cleaning chemical, pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic, paint and PTFE tanks.
Spraying Systems Co. is a global leader in spray technology. It has the broadest product range in the industry, several manufacturing facilities and sales offices in more than 85 countries.
Contact:
Tel: 1-630-665-3000
Web: www.spray.com
Heidelberg Introduces Technology for Double-Sided Coating in a Single Pass
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) offers a technology for the Speedmaster XL 75 and XL 105 that enables coating before and after sheet reversal in a single pass. About 150 participants followed Heidelberg's invitation to experience the hands-on demonstrations and to exchange experiences with initial users on new opportunities provided by double-sided coating in a single pass. Print shops can use this technology to significantly boost their productivity by fitting processes that previously required two passes into just a single pass. This minimizes production times while also increasing the variety of surface finishing options available.
A systematic step towards greater cost-efficiency
Print jobs now only have to pass through the press once. In addition to cutting production times, double-sided coating enables print products to proceed immediately to postpress. This eliminates unproductive waiting and drying times as well as the associated intermediate storage of semi-finished products.
Heidelberg has achieved this by customizing all its dryer systems to the relevant press in order to optimize dryer efficiency and print quality, even with high machine speeds, high ink coverage, and exacting coatings. Drying is so effective that the printed sheets can go virtually straight to postpress. The environment benefits, too, because optimized drying is achieved with minimized energy consumption and lower operating costs.
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Fortress Paper announces acquistion to enter new markets
Fortress Paper Ltd. a leading producer of security and specialty papers, in a major strategic move today announces the signing of an asset purchase agreement (“APA”) to acquire the assets of a northern bleached hardwood kraft manufacturing facility located in Thurso, Quebec from Fraser Papers Inc. with the intention to convert this operation into a world class, low cost, specialty cellulose (dissolving pulp) operation. Concurrently, Fortress Paper intends to build a biomass-based cogeneration plant at the Thurso Mill which will produce green electricity resulting in material net energy savings.
Upon closing of the acquisition of the Thurso Mill, which will be completed through its wholly-owned subsidiary Fortress Specialty Cellulose Inc, the Corporation intends to incur capital expenditures of approximately $153 million to convert the non-operating NBHK mill into a high quality specialty cellulose mill and to construct a new cogeneration facility. In connection with the proposed capital expenditures, Fortress Paper is pleased to announce that it has pre-arranged specific financing initiatives to fund the conversion and cogeneration projects.
The specialty cellulose mill is planned to have an annual production capacity of more than 200,000 air dried metric tonnes and is expected to be completed in mid-2011. In entering into the specialty cellulose sector, Fortress Specialty will focus on producing dissolving grade cellulose for the textile industry, primarily targeting viscose fibre (rayon) products which have shown strong growth of approximately 10% in China and 7% worldwide over the past five years. Rayon is a technically evolved and versatile fibre with many advantages, particularly in the warmer and higher growth regions of the world.
Sonoco Receives Outstanding Merchandising Achievement Awards
Sonoco one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, today announced that its retail point-of-purchase (P-O-P) display and packaging services business won eight Outstanding Merchandising at Retail Achievement Awards (OMAs) at the 52nd Annual Point of Purchase Advertising International (POPAI) competition.
POPAI's annual OMA competition recognizes the most innovative and effective retail promotions. Judges from the P-O-P industry evaluated more than 450 entries from 100 companies in 26 industry categories during a two-phase selection process in determining the winners. Entries were judged on design, innovation, interactivity and the proven ability to lift sales.
"Being recognized for excellence by your peers is gratifying. However, it really speaks to the effectiveness of Sonoco's talented retail merchandising team's ability to effectively communicate our understanding of the power of marketing at retail for our global customers," said Gerson Heiderich, division vice president/general manager, Sonoco CorrFlex.
Sonoco won Gold OMA awards for its BIC Create-A-Pack Mark-it(R) Permanent Marker Display for Staples, Novartis Consumer Health Prevacid(R)24HR Launch Displays and The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Pallet Bridge Displays for Lowe's. The Company also won a Silver OMA for its Elizabeth Arden Ornaments Counter Display for CVS. Four Bronze OMAs were won for Cadbury Adams USA Halls(R) National Display Program; Elizabeth Arden CVS Holiday Fragrance Tower Display; Procter & Gamble Pampers(R) Mixed Wipes 3X Floorstand Display; and Cadbury Adams USA Halls(R) 8+2 Permanent Counter Display.
Photos of these award-winning displays are available at the following link: http://www.box.net/shared/yo7fgh8h74
SCA’s Annual Report for 2009 released
SCA’s Annual Report for 2009 has been published and is available below. SCA has also published its 2009 Sustainability Report, which can also be downloaded below.
SCA's Annual report 2009 and Sustainability report 2009The printed version of the Annual Report will be distributed by post to shareholders and other stakeholders on the week commencing 29 March.
For additional information, please contact
Jörgen Olsson, Press and Media Officer, +46 8-788 51 29
Jessica Ölvestad, Investor Relations Manager, +46 8-788 52 82
Stockholm, March 23, 2010
NB
This information is such that SCA must disclose in accordance with the Securities Markets Act. The information was submitted for publication on March 23, 2010, at 12.00 noon.
Related documents
* Annual Report 2009
* Sustainability report 2009