International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order to supply a pressurized refining system with a design capacity of approximately 1,200 t/d for a new MDF/HDF production plant being built by AGT Ltd., Turkey. The new MDF/HDF line will be…
Södra's executive committee has named Lars Idermark as the new Group President and CEO. Lars Idermark is currently the CEO of PostNord. "Lars Idermark is a person with outstanding experience of various elements of trade and industry, and he has…
Insulation properties and the energy efficiency of many thermal insulation materials, such as polyurethane or mineral wool, can be considerably enhanced with the use of Walki facings. Helped by a significant investment in new production technology, Walki Group can offer…
Produced at Mondi Syktyvkar mill, the company’s well-known office and offset brands Snegurochka, IQ economy, IQ allround, MAESTRO® standard, MAESTRO® special, and MAESTRO® PRINT (offset) are now EU Ecolabel certified Mondi Syktyvkar in Komi, Russia was recently awarded the EU…
The Moroccan tissue producer Sipat has been successfully started up PM2 machine in Meknes after a major rebuilding. The Italian company Toscotec has been the supplier of the rebuilding of the existing PM2 in crescent former. The dry end of…
The Competition Directorate-General of the EU Commission has completed the first phase of its investigation under the EU Merger Regulation into the transaction between Ahlstrom's Label and Processing business and Munksjö AB and opened an in-depth (second phase) investigation into…
Caroline Hyll presented her licentiate thesis “Infrared emittance of paper – method development, measurements and application” at Innventia. This work will enhance the use of thermography in the pulp and paper industry. Thermography is a non-destructive technique which uses the…
UPM has donated more than 1,500 copies of a special edition of Donald Duck comic magazine titled ‘Design!’. The magazines were distributed to 8th grade school children from the neighbourhoods of UPM’s paper mills in Rauma, Kouvola, Valkeakoski, Jämsä, and…
On 30 November, Helena Halonen defended her doctoral thesis “Structural changes during cellulose composite processing”. Her work demonstrates two methods for creating a new composite material based only on cellulose fibres. In a composite material, the reinforcing agent and the…
Tuesday, 04 December 2012 09:43

NOK 30 million in research funds to Borregaard

Borregaard has received a grant of NOK 30 million from the Research Council of Norway's earmarked funds for research on wood processing. The funds will be used over three years on innovation projects based on timber. “The grant from the…
Monday, 03 December 2012 10:12

CEO Ton Büchner returns to AkzoNobel

The Supervisory Board of AkzoNobel is delighted to announce that CEO Ton Büchner will resume his duties on Friday, December 7, following a full recovery.  "On behalf of the Supervisory Board and the Executive Committee we welcome Ton coming back to…
Volga and Turinskiy pulpmills increased sales, but lowered net profit in January-September 2012 Large Russian forest industry companies continue to publish quarterly reports. Turinskiy pulpmill (Sverdlovsk region) reported growth of sales by 2.7% year-on-year to 863.6 million Rubles (€21.6 million).…
Thursday, 29 November 2012 16:30

The Black Box Project - Next Stop Moscow

At an event in Moscow in December a seventh box will be presented, this time by the Swedish photographer and filmmaker Jens Assur. For almost two years Iggesund Paperboard has been running the Black Box Project, with exhibitions in cities…
The glue lam panel production at UPM Heinola further processing mill in Finland will cease by mid-December. UPM announced in June 2012 the decision to close down the mill by the end of the year. UPM has started the “From Job…
Tieto launches release 13.4 of Tieto Integrated Paper Solution TIPS, which is a comprehensive sales, logistics and production management solution for the pulp, paper, board and tissue industries. The handling of TIPS is changing from functional based to workflow driven…