Pöyry signed a cooperation agreement with Aalto University on 1 December 2010 which will support the university's research, development and education efforts. As part of the agreement and in accordance with the decision made at the 2010 Annual General Meeting,…
UPM has partnered with Monocle – a leading business and cultural affairs magazine – to produce the Monocle Finland Survey. Printed on three UPM grades, the Monocle Finland Survey covers all aspects of Finnish culture, economy and design. It is…
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group will deliver a Collaborative Production Management (CPM) system to Kotkamills Oy, Finland. Kotkamills Oy manufactures matt coated printing paper and laminating papers as well as sawn products. The system supports company’s Kotka…
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has secured a contract to deliver the paper machine and winder sectional drive systems for  Saica Containerboard’s new PM11 paper production line. The new mill is located in Manchester, England. The Comprehensive…
NewPage Corporation today announced the release of Getting Personal, the fourteenth issue in its "Ed" series of educational brochures. This new issue points out how the world is connecting audiences at many different communication points, engaging them in very personal…
The results of the latest EMGE survey have confirmed Mondi’s outstanding mill performance, customer service and cut-size paper portfolio range. Mondi’s digital colour laser paper, Color Copy also maintained its leading position in brand performance with a No. 1 ranking…
Pöyry has concluded the statutory employee negotiations announced on 14 October at its largest legal unit in Finland, Pöyry Finland Oy. The negotiations are ongoing in some of the legal units that are covered by the negotiations. Regarding the Finnish…
Canfor Pulp Income Fund has announced that Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership (the “Partnership”), in which the Fund has a 49.8% ownership, has received approval from the Canadian federal government for funding of its $100 million capital project to upgrade the…
Tuesday, 30 November 2010 07:33

Revised PEFC Standards Published

The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), whose standards govern the certification of two-thirds of the total global certified forest area, has today published revised standards for sustainable forest management, chain of custody, standard setting, group certification, and…
For the first time, a significant production loss could be traced back to a digital printing technology that is not compatible with the existing paper recycling system. For a long time it had been suspected that small flakes resulting from…
Video presentation on the european paper industry the Bio-value Champion
Thursday, 25 November 2010 12:00

New site agreement for Ludwigshafen site

BASF SE management and employee representatives today signed a new site agreement for the company’s Ludwigshafen site. The agreement, titled “Safeguarding the future through flexibility and operational partnership,” applies to the approximately 33,000 BASF SE employees at the site for…
Thursday, 25 November 2010 11:00

VAPA celebrates educational trophy

In the beginning of November the Dutch educational centre of the paper industry VAPA was invited present her recent project results during a big conference in Brussels celebrating the 15th anniversary of the life long learning program “Leonardo da Vinci…
UPM will respond to the growing demand for label papers by increasing the label paper production capacity at its Tervasaari mill in Valkeakoski, Finland. The rebuild of the Tervasaari paper machine 8 will increase the capacity by almost 30,000 tonnes…
Verso Paper Corp. (NYSE: VRS) announced today the launch of a $40 million Renewable Energy Project at its Bucksport, Maine mill. This project will provide a 43% increase in thermal energy production from renewable biomass at the Bucksport Mill and…
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