Tuesday, 02 April 2013 10:33
ERPC Launches Call for Candidates for European Paper Recycling Award 2013
Paper recycling initiatives are invited to apply for the fourth European Paper Recycling Award. NGOs, educational institutes, local authorities and industry have implemented many innovative projects to enhance paper recycling all over Europe but these initiatives are generally not well…
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Tuesday, 02 April 2013 10:21
Olea – the hydrophobic fibre: reliable quality on a larger scale
We have already introduced you to Olea, the first viscose fibre with intrinsic water repellent properties. Now, Olea has taken the next step towards a commercial launch: during the first production trial, we have confirmed that the fibre can be…
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Tuesday, 02 April 2013 10:05
UPM signs contract with Aliplast for release liner recovery in France
UPM has announced cooperation for release liner recovery with the French subsidiary of Aliplast, an Italian company specializing in the collection and treatment of recovered plastic films. This partnership expands Aliplast’s recycling services to polypropylene (PP) and paper-based release liners…
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Friday, 29 March 2013 12:36
Metso to supply paper-to-packaging grade conversion rebuild for Blue Paper in France
The target is to produce packaging materials based on recycled raw materials Metso will supply Blue Paper with a grade conversion rebuild of their paper machine at their mill site in Strasbourg, France. The target is to produce packaging materials…
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Wednesday, 27 March 2013 10:30
Pankaboard strengthens its speciality strategy – establishes its own sales office in the UK
Pankaboard, a leading Finnish specialty cartonboard producer, will open a new sales office in the UK, to strengthen its local presence in the market. The new office and sales execution in the UK is lead by the Regional Sales Director,…
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Wednesday, 27 March 2013 09:30
Walki to expand its production platform in Central Europe
Walki Group, the leading producer of protective packaging materials and technical laminates, announces today that it will expand its production network in Europe by opening a new state of the art manufacturing plant in Wroclaw, Poland. The new plant, which…
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Wednesday, 27 March 2013 07:11
World first for Swedish environmental technology on a commercial scale
On 12 March, the North American pulp and paper company Domtar announced that it had started the operation of a facility for separating lignin from the process at its pulp mill in Plymouth, North Carolina. The facility is the first…
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Tuesday, 26 March 2013 11:45
Metso aims to improve strategic focus and accelerate growth
The Board of Directors of Metso Corporation has decided to commence a process to study the potential separation of the company’s Pulp, Paper and Power businesses into a new company, which would be listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock…
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Monday, 25 March 2013 11:40
Kemira starts a new AKD-emulsion line at Helsingborg site in Sweden
Kemira will open a new AKD-emulsion line in Sweden to better serve big sizing clients. New capacity will be available during summer 2013. AKD is an alkyl ketene dimer based sizing agent, which impacts paper and board hydrophobicity or water…
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Monday, 25 March 2013 09:41
Ahlstrom to collaborate with Dow Chemical Company on water filtration applications
Ahlstrom, a global high performance fiber-based materials company, announces that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS), a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW), to use Ahlstrom's Disruptor® technology in drinking…
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Monday, 25 March 2013 09:26
Kemira Oyj: Restated segment information for 2012 according to the new organizational structure
Kemira's new organizational structure has been operational since October 1, 2012 and as announced earlier, financial reporting according to the new structure started as of January 1, 2013. Kemira's reporting segments are Paper, Municipal & Industrial, Oil & Mining, and…
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Friday, 22 March 2013 12:03
Lenzing Group: Second-Best Result in the Company’s History
In spite of difficult market conditions in its core fiber business, the Lenzing Group succeeded in achieving the second best business result in its history in the 2012 financial year. This can be attributed to new record fiber sales volumes…
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Wednesday, 20 March 2013 12:26
Low bids spell end of Södra Cell Tofte sale
Södra is now ceasing efforts to sell Södra Cell Tofte due to the fact that the bids received are too low. This decision will now be reported to the county. If no solution is found during the month-long qualifying period,…
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Wednesday, 20 March 2013 10:18
Norske Skog to curtail newsprint production
In order to avoid unnecessary build up of inventory, Norske Skog will temporarily idle one paper machine (PM2) at Norske Skog Skogn from June. PM2 has an annual production capacity of 130 000 tonnes. Skogn has an annual capacity of 550…
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Tuesday, 19 March 2013 13:33
Metso receives repeat order for two complete tissue lines from Hayat Kimya of Turkey
Metso has received a repeat order for two complete tissue production lines for the Turkish Hayat Kimya A.S. Each production line will include an Advantage DCT 200 TS tissue machine, and they will be installed at the company’s new mill…
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