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Thursday, 28 February 2013 07:30

Bank of Moscow finalized sale of Kama pulpmill

The Bank of Moscow finalized sale of 100% of Kama pulpmill which was owned via Investlesprom holding, as Perm edition of Kommersant newspaper reports. Quoting kartoteka.ru website, the paper states that Kama pulpmill was sold on February 18 to Energoaktiv…
Arkhangelsk, February 21. The board of Arkhangelsk pulpmill appointed Mikhail Zylyov as new Chief Executive of the company. Since 2004, Mr. Zylyov has held the position of Director, Economy and Finance. In his new position Mr. Zylyov will be responsible for…
Revenue of Mondi Group in 2012 amounted to €5.8 billion, compared to €5.74 billion a year ago, the company said in its full-year report. "Continued strong profitability resulted in a return on capital employed (ROCE) of 13.7%, once again above…
Metso has opened a new Automation service center in Ratchaburi, Thailand. The service center supports Metso’s strategy to grow its Automation business globally and strengthens Metso’s service capabilities in Thailand. Metso has large installed base for process automation products and…
Ilim Group reported full-year 2012 production results. Company's mills in Siberia and the Russian Northwest manufactured over 2.58 million tons of pulp and paper products. Production at Koryazhma mill in Arkhangelsk region increased 4% year-on-year, in Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk (Irkutsk…
WWF welcomed the announcement by the Sinar Mas Group’s Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) stopped clearing Indonesia’s tropical forests and peatlands to allow an assessment of their conservation and carbon values. But the conservation organization urged paper buyers to wait…
Metso will supply Hyogo Pulp Industries, Ltd. with a pulp drying line for its mill in Tanigawa, Japan. The start-up of the line is planned for the last quarter of 2014. The value of the order will not be disclosed.…
The Metso-supplied complete containerboard production line B9 with an extended scope of supply project implementation for Amcor Packaging (Australia) Pty Ltd successfully came on stream on October 16, 2012 at the company’s Botany mill in Sydney, Australia.  The production line…
Metso has been selected as a primary supplier of ball and butterfly valves to Shaanxi Yanchang ChinaCoal Yulin Energy & Chemical Co., Ltd (Shaanxi Yanchang ChinaCoal). To ensure successful start up, Metso will deploy a technical service team on-site to…
The Minerals Technologies Inc. (NYSE: MTX) said that a satellite precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) plant announced in October of 2011 at a paper mill owned by Double A (1991) Public Company Ltd. in Tha Toom, Thailand, became operational in the…
On December 12, 2012, Liansheng Paper Industry (Longhai) Co., Ltd. started up their new Metso-supplied containerboard production line, PM 6, at their Longhai site in Fujian Province in China.  This is the first start-up of Metso’s novel OptiConcept M production…
Friday, 18 January 2013 12:45

Södra leaves Russian pulp mill project

Södra decided to leave the project with Angara Paper company to build a Eniseyskiy LKhK pulpmill in Russia. Swedish company was invited to take part in construction of a greenfield mill in southern Siberia.   Södra’s role in the project…
On November 16, 2012, the Metso-supplied PM 1 fine paper machine at Zhanjiang Chenming Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. in Zhanjiang City in China set  a woodfree uncoated machine 24-hour world speed record of 1,808 m/min. During the record run,…
Papcel to build a paper mill for Zavod Gazetnoy Bumagi in Belarus for €69 million Czech equipment producer Papcel signed the biggest contract in its history with Belarusian pulp and paper concern Zavod Gazetnoy Bumagi located in Shklov (Mogilyov region)…
UPM announces a production curtailment at its Pestovo sawmill in Novgorod region and begins negotiations with employees. The negotiations will affect all of the approximately 180 sawmill employees. Starting today, production at the mill will be curtailed to the level…