Monday, 15 November 2010 09:23

Sustainable light bulb packaging wins SCA Packaging Design Challenge

60 “fat free” packaging concepts from students and non-professional designers all over Europe participated in the second edition of SCA Packaging’s Design Challenge. Both of the winning concepts are light bulb packages. The jury’s prize Karin Hartman and Per Eldénius…
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Friday, 12 November 2010 12:30

Walki expands in China and invests in a new glue laminator

The demand for polymer coated cutsize wrapping material is growing at a fast pace in China and the Asia-Pacific area, because of the rapidly growing demand for office paper. To meet the increasing demand Walki Group has started an ambitious…
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Friday, 12 November 2010 12:00

BASF gears paper chemicals business toward growth markets

With a view to future growth markets for paper chemicals and dyestuffs in China, Indonesia and India, BASF's Paper Chemicals division will reorganize its global business structures. The business in optical brighteners for paper is to be exited in Europe,…
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Friday, 12 November 2010 11:17

The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota Announces Recommendations for Minnesota’s Forestry Industry

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota announces the release of Minnesota’s Forest Biomass Value Chain: A System Dynamics Analysis. The paper is the result of a yearlong project involving over 100 experts in the forestry community to…
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Thursday, 11 November 2010 11:30

St. Marys Renewable Energy Corporation Announces Power-Purchase Agreement

St. Marys Renewable Energy Corporation has announced that a [ten-year] power-purchase agreement has been reached with the Ontario Power Authority. Under this agreement, the OPA will purchase the electricity produced by a bio-mass-fueled co-generation plant to be built by SMREC…
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Thursday, 11 November 2010 10:30

M-real has concluded the statutory negotiations at the Simpele mill

M-real Corporation, part of Metsäliitto Group, has concluded the statutory negotiations at the Simpele mill. To improve the profitability of the mill M-real started on 24 September 2010 the statutory negotiations concerning the potential transfer of the Simpele speciality paper…
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Thursday, 11 November 2010 09:26

Metso relocates a containerboard machine for Indonesian Pelita Cengkareng Paper

Metso will relocate a containerboard machine for the Indonesian PT. Pelita Cengkareng Paper & Co. to their Subang mill in Indonesia. The start-up of the relocated machine is scheduled for the last quarter of 2011. The value of the order…
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Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:00

Energy, fresh water, carbon dioxide and chemical savings are driving forces for new investments

Wetend Technologies has reached the milestone of 300 TrumpJet mixing stations and over 1000 TrumpJet mixers supplied with the new fresh deliveries. USA Funding support from US Department of Energy (DOE) for TrumpJet Flash Mixing Technology for paper mills in…
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Wednesday, 10 November 2010 10:00

NewPage Corporation Releases on Paper Episode Featuring REI

NewPage Corporation announced the upload of a new episode in the popular On Paper sustainability podcast series, featuring REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), a national outdoor retailer that provides quality outdoor gear and clothing. In this episode of On Paper, available…
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Wednesday, 10 November 2010 08:43

Fibria elected the most admired pulp and paper company in Brazil

For the second consecutive year, Fibria ranked first place in the Pulp and Paper industry in the survey "Most Admired Companies in Brazil", sponsored by CartaCapital magazine in partnership with Officina Sophia Consultants. The survey was carried out with about…
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Tuesday, 09 November 2010 12:45

New, fully automatic packaging line at SCA Ortviken

A new, fully automatic packaging line has been commissioned at the Ortviken’s paper mill. The SEK 48 m investment will eliminate a bottleneck and ensure that higher productivity in the paper machines can be packaged, while simultaneously reducing staffing. The…
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Tuesday, 09 November 2010 11:30

Internet Technologies Will Lead To Kraft Pulp Decrease: Report

A new study conducted by Pira International – a worldwide authority on the packaging, paper and print industry supply chains – says the Internet and mobile computing-related technologies will have the strongest influence on the global pulp and paper industry…
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Tuesday, 09 November 2010 10:22

Finnish Procurement Policy Aims at Harmonization of Approaches; Recognizes PEFC, FSC

With the goal to support the harmonization of guidelines for public procurement of wood-based products within the EU, Finland has launched its public procurement policy for wood-based products earlier this year. The policy, which is now available in English, specifies…
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Tuesday, 09 November 2010 09:19

FSC to host Q&A session at London Pulp Week

As part of the program for London Pulp Week, FSC and FSC UK will host a Q & A session and discussion platform for the pulp and paper industry. This session complements the BWPA and Hawkins Wright Symposium, of which…
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Monday, 08 November 2010 11:00

Favorable business development of the ANDRITZ GROUP in the first three quarters of 2010

International technology Group ANDRITZ showed a favorable business development in the first three quarters of 2010. In particular, sales, earnings, and profitability rose substantially in the third quarter of 2010, with order intake and order backlog also showing an increase…
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