Friday, 20 January 2017 07:07

One of the world’s sustainability leaders

Iggesund Paperboard’s parent company, the Holmen Group, has gained a place on the Global 100, an index of the hundred most sustainable corporations in the world. Holmen ranks 21 and is the only company from the forest industry on the…
Zelfo Technology (ZT) has reached an important milestone in its technical development program and will open an Engineered Fibre production and R&D unit in Schwedt, Northern Germany. The company engineers cellulosic and ligno-cellulosic fibres from a wide range of sources…
Over 150 key industry experts from the paper industry will assemble in Cologne, Germany from 3 – 5 April 2017 to attend Smithers Pira’s Specialty Papers Europe (http://www.specialtypaperconference.com/europe). With the global market for specialty papers expected to increase at an…
International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from KAMA Karton LLC, Krasnokamsk, Russia to supply a complete production line for folding box board with a basis weight range from 200 to 350 g/m2. The board machine has an annual…
Launched last year, PERGRAPHICA® is Mondi’s portfolio of premium uncoated fine papers designed for the exacting needs of the creative and commercial print industries. Since then, it has won the admiration of many in the graphic design and printing industries…
Valmet will supply a new evaporation plant, a combustion plant for gases generated in the production process and related automation systems for Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper mill in Novodvinsk, Russia. The delivery will be part of execution of the second…
International technology Group ANDRITZ has successfully completed the rebuild of a sludge screw press at Stora Enso’s Anjala paper mill in Anjalankoski, Finland. The turnkey upgrade of the sludge screw press, which has been out of operation for the past…
On 15th December 2016, Toscotec shipped the first two TT SYD-22FT of 2° generation (diameter 6705 mm) from the port of Marina di Carrara, Tuscany. The first two Steel Yankee Dryers of the largest diameter ever built have left the…
After forty-two years of service to the company Mat Quaedvlieg has retired from his position as Vice President Manufacturing, R&D and Technology Sappi Europe on December 31st, 2016. He will continue as VP Strategic Business Projects on a part time…
Steady growth in consumer markets will buoy the sack and kraft paper industry to produce growth of around 3% per annum for 2016–2021 – according to the latest exclusive data from Smithers Pira. This will push global market value to…
After a comprehensive rebuild supplied by Toscotec the rebuilt PM10 at Lucart Laval sur Vologne mill in France has been successfully started. The rebuild will boost the machine speed from the current 1300 mpm to 1600 mpm for the production…
Performance Pipe, a division of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP, has launched a new product innovation in polyethylene (PE) pipe and fittings, designed to extend PE pipe capabilities in high temperature applications. Performance Pipe’s new PlatinumStripe™ 1800 series PE-RT pipe…
Stora Enso is investing a total of EUR 9.1 million into its consumer board mills in Imatra and Ingerois, Finland, and Fors, Sweden, to continue the commercialisation of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) and to accelerate product development. With the new investments,…
Stora Enso has just divested its 100% shareholding in its Finnish subsidiary Formeca Oy, a provider of high-quality machines for automated packaging lines, to Amitec Oy, a specialised engineering and machine construction company based in Finland. Following this transaction, Stora…
In August 2016, PMP (Paper Machinery Producer) signed a contract with Zhe Jiang Huachuan for a delivery of key technological units for PM8, located in Yiwu mill, Zhejiang Province, China. A new PM8 (operating speed 700 m/min, reel trim 3460…