Pregis Corp.'s Hexacomb® business unit is announcing a 6% price increase on all grades and sizes of its product line shipped to customers in the U.K., Germany, France, Belgium  and The Netherlands.  The price increase is effective on or after…
John C. Husband, Ph.D., has been designated as one of nine TAPPI Fellows for 2010. He currently serves as Lead Scientist for IMERYS Minerals Ltd., Cornwall, UK. Fellow is an honorary title bestowed upon less than one percent of TAPPI’s…
MoRe Research and Envall Consulting have signed an agreement giving their customers within the pulp and paper industry access to the companies’ total process know-how and pilot equipment. Together we are a strong partner regarding problem solving and development projects…
Survey Finds College Students Believe Saving the Planet is Important, But They Think Paper is Still Essential for Life's Big Moments Most college students in a new nationwide poll rank themselves as environmentally conscious and two-thirds believe going paperless helps…
Friday, 28 May 2010 09:52

Cascades' latest clean sweep

The antibacterial paper towel Cascades has been busily working to develop for five years is launching at an opportune time. In the aftermath of H1N1 where concern over the spread of germs remains high, the paper company’s latest offering is…
"IPEX 2010 was well attended and our customers showed great interest in our new products and services," says a satisfied Bernhard Schreier, CEO of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg), in summing up the trade show. More than 50,000 international visitors came…
On April 23rd, 2010, judges at the 7th All-Russian Forest Lesprom Awards in Moscow named STEP “The Russian Pulp and Paper industry’s investment project of the year”. Mondi Syktyvkar also won the mill award for “The pulp and paper industry’s…
Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:44

Hartmann performed well in Q1 2010

Hartmann performed well in Q1 2010 with an EBIT margin of 9.8% (2009: 3.2%). As expected, the positive trend witnessed in the latest quarters thus continued in 2010, as the '10 in 10' initiatives implemented took full effect. Hartmann maintains…
Peter Arndrup Poulsen has announced his decision to resign from the position as CEO of Brødrene Hartmann A/S to take up the position as CEO of Tvilum-Scanbirk in Fårvang, north of Silkeborg, Denmark. Peter Arndrup Poulsen will join Tvilum-Scanbirk on…
Clearwater Paper Corporation announced that its board of directors has approved plans to build a Through-Air-Dried (TAD) paper machine and seven converting lines capable of producing ultra grades of private label tissue products. Final site selection for the South-eastern United…
Thursday, 27 May 2010 11:16

Tissue World Asia 2010 - Call for Papers

The 4th Tissue World event in Asia will be held on 17-19 November 2010 in Shanghai. Tissue World Asia 2010 will include a technical conference covering new developments that can be of interest to Asian producers, converters, distributors, traders and…
Metso-acquired Tamfelt Corp. has been established as Fabrics business line within Metso’s Paper and Fiber Technology. Tamfelt was delisted from the stock exchange on May 4, 2010 after Metso had acquired all of Tamfelt shares.The name change from Tamfelt Corp.…
International technology Group ANDRITZ has received orders with a total value of about 50 MEUR from two stainless steel producers in China.For Tianjin TISCO & TPCO Stainless Steel Co. Ltd. the ANDRITZ METALS business area will supply an annealing and…
Net sales by the Myllykoski Group in January-March 2010 totalled EUR 245 million (EUR 325 million in January-March 2009). Operating profit for January-March 2010 was EUR 13 million (EUR 8 million). Low paper prices and high raw material costs decreased…
Noss will supply new approach flow systems to Zhejiang Jian Paper for its PM3/5 in Haiyan County, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. PM3 start-up is scheduled in June 2011, PM5 start-up is scheduled in April 2011.PM3 is the fastest and biggest…
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