Ian Melin-Jones
FutureMark™ Makes New Strides in Reducing Environmental Impact of Paper Production
FutureMark™ Paper Company, the only North American manufacturer capable of producing up to 100 percent recycled coated paper for magazines and catalogs, announced two new initiatives to lower the environmental impact of paper production. The company is now using an environmentally sustainable binding compound made from corn starch in its paper coatings instead of petroleum-based latex. Furthermore, FutureMark has developed an innovative product that reuses the short paper fibers, inks and coating minerals extracted from recycled paper as a soil nutrient.
“Making recycled paper in an environmentally friendly way has long been a point of pride for FutureMark and our employees,” said Steve Silver, President & CEO of FutureMark Paper Company. “With these two advancements, we’re further reducing the environmental impact of our manufacturing processes, while returning nutrients to the earth and making incremental improvements to our very high-quality recycled paper.”
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Billerud's Annual Report for 2009 released
The Annual Report for 2009, including the Sustainability Report for 2009, is now available at www.billerud.com/reports. The printed version of the Annual Report will be distributed to shareholders and other stakeholders that have requested this.
Stockholm 12 April 2010
Billerud AB (publ)
Per Lindberg
President and CEO
For further information please contact
Bertil Carlsén, CFO, +46 8 553 335 07 or +46 73 021 10 92
The information is such that Billerud is obligated to publish under the Swedish
Securities Market Act. Submitted for publication at 10.00 a.m. on 12 April 2010.
Billerud is a packaging paper company with a business concept to supply customers with innovative and high quality packaging paper. A consistent concentration on attractive market segments and a strong customer focus are cornerstones of Billerud's strategy. Billerud focuses on kraft paper and containerboard and has a world-leading position within several product segments. The company's production units are among the most cost-efficient in Europe for these products.
The New L&W Moisture Tester
Correct moisture content is of absolutely vital significance for all grades of paper. The accurate measurement values assist the machine crew in keeping an even and high product quality. Alternations, which influence the quality, are quickly traced before leading to waste and costly breakdowns. New L&W Moisture Tester is a high precision offline benchtop moisture meter for production control and verification of online systems.
The instrument is based on Lorentzen & Wettre’s microwave moisture sensors, known worldwide within the pulp and paper industry. It measures and calculates the moisture content and the dry basis weight of paper, paper board, corrugated board, dry pulp and other fibre materials.
The microwave technique gives reliable measurement values, independent of the grade produced, including waste paper. Measurement results are neither affected by curled materials, nor by an uneven surface or a multilayer structure.
The tester is fast and easy to use. L&W Moisture Tester measures the moisture content on a large and representative number of samples in just a few seconds so there is no need for time consuming and labour intensive gravimetric testing. The operator simply takes a sample from the machine, puts it on the balance for a few seconds and then moves it through the measuring gap.
With L&W Moisture Tester it is possible to check the moisture content in all stages in the process chain:
• pulp sheets before leaving the pulp mill
• incoming pulp sheets before processing in paper mill
• paper products in the converting plant
L&W Moisture Tester is also suitable for trouble shooting since it checks the online sensors if there is an out of specification indication.
“It is always with great pride we release a new product – but there is always an element of uncertainty as well as one can never anticipate the market reaction to newly developed instruments.
In this case the feed-back from the market has been quicker than ever and the initial interest has been overwhelmingly positive. We therefore expect quite a lot from our new L&W Moisture Tester – the latest of our instruments based on microwave technology.”, says Fredrik Bosröm, Vice President Marketing at Lorentzen & Wettre.
Media contacts:
Mr. Thomas Fürst, Product Manager, AB Lorentzen & Wettre, Sweden.
Phone: + 46 8 477 91 64 | Mobile: + 46 70 583 63 20 | E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mr. Fredrik Boström, Vice President Marketing, AB Lorentzen & Wettre, Sweden.
Phone: + 46 8 477 91 20 | Mobile: + 46 70 638 87 47 | E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Södra announces 30 dollar price increase for pulp
Södra is raising the price of its softwood pulps by USD 30 per tonne to USD 960 per tonne. The price increase is effective from 1 May 2010.
"Södra's deliveries of pulp are at a high level and stocks are very low. Our outlook for the second quarter is a strong market", said Ulf Edman, president of Södra Cell International.
For further information, please contact:
Ulf Edman, President of Södra Cell International, +46 70 677 8769
Per Braconier, Director of Corporate Communications, Södra, +46 70 534 5166
Temple-Inland Inc. to Release First Quarter Results on April 21, 2010
Temple-Inland Inc. will release its results for first quarter 2010 on April 21, 2010, before the market opens.
The company will host a conference call on April 21, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss results for first quarter 2010.
To access the conference call, listeners calling from the United States and Canada should dial 1-866-394-6665 at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the call. The passcode for the conference call is: 68016282. Those wishing to access the call from outside the United States and Canada should dial 1-706-634-1667 and use the same passcode as set forth above. Replays of the call will be available for two weeks following completion of the live call and can be accessed at 1-800-642-1687 in the United States and Canada and at 1-706-645-9291 outside the United States and Canada. The passcode for the replay is: 68016282.
The conference call may also be accessed through Temple-Inland's Internet site, www.templeinland.com, by clicking on "Investor Relations - Investor Events."
Temple-Inland Inc. is a manufacturing company focused on corrugated packaging and building products. The fully integrated corrugated packaging operation consists of 7 mills and 63 converting facilities. The building products operation manufactures a diverse line of building products for new home construction, commercial and repair and remodeling markets. Temple-Inland's address on the World Wide Web is www.templeinland.com.
SOURCE: Temple-Inland Inc.
Temple-Inland Inc.
Chris Mathis, 512-434-3766
Verso to Report First Quarter Results and Host Conference Call on May 6
Verso Paper Corp. announced that it will report its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010 in a news release before the market opens on Thursday, May 6. Management will host a conference call at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Thursday, May 6, to discuss the first quarter results.
This release and the first quarter results will be made available on Verso's Web site at http://investor.versopaper.com/ by navigating to the Financial Information page.
Analysts and investors may participate in the live conference call by dialing 719-325-2431 or, within the U.S. and Canada only, 800-967-7134, access code 6400240. To register, please dial in 10 minutes before the conference call begins. The conference call and presentation materials can be accessed at Verso's Web site at http://investor.versopaper.com/ by navigating to the Events page, or at http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=67879.
A telephonic replay of the call can be accessed at 719-457-0820 or, within the U.S. and Canada only, 1-888-203-1112, access code 6400240. This replay will be available starting at 12:00 p.m. (ET) on May 6, 2010, and will remain available for 90 days.
About Verso
Based in Memphis, Tennessee, Verso Paper Corp. is a leading North American producer of coated papers, including coated groundwood and coated freesheet, and supercalendered and specialty products. Verso's paper products are used primarily in media and marketing applications, including magazines, catalogs, and commercial printing applications such as high-end advertising brochures, annual reports, and direct-mail advertising.
Forward-Looking Statements
In this press release all statements that are not purely historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "plan," "estimate," "intend," and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on currently available business, economic, financial and other information and reflect management's current beliefs, expectations and views with respect to future developments and their potential effects on Verso. Actual results could vary materially depending on risks and uncertainties that may affect Verso and its business. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, please refer to Verso's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Verso assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement made in this press release to reflect subsequent events or circumstances or actual outcomes.
SOURCE: Verso Paper Corp.
Verso Paper Corp.
Robert P. Mundy
Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
901-369-4128
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www.versopaper.com
MM Karton to close Swiss Board Mill
Due to a significant deterioration of the industrial framework conditions in Switzerland, MM Karton will discontinue cartonboard production at its Deisswil site. A drastic increase in Swiss emission levies made an impairment of EUR 14.2 million already necessary by year-end 2009 due to a considerable strain on future earnings. A comprehensive evaluation of the general set-up henceforth led to the conclusion that an economic continuation is not feasible anymore due to accelerated negative local productivity and cost development.
The use of the machines and technical installations will be discontinued in future. For the mill’s 255 employees, a social plan will be implemented.
In 2009, approximately 112,000 tons of cartonboard were produced on three board machines at Deisswil. By mutual agreement with our customers, future supply will be effected via more competitive, high-performance MM-Karton plants.
For further information, please contact:
Stephan Sweerts-Sporck, Investor Relations, Mayr-Melnhof Karton AG, Brahmsplatz 6, A-1041 Vienna
Tel.: (+43/1) 50136 – 91180, Fax: (+43/1) 50136 – 91195
e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Website: www.mayr-melnhof.com
Innventia welcomes the new Partner Customer Brødrene Hartmann A/S
Moulded fibre packaging company Brødrene Hartmann A/S has decided to extend its operations in the Innventia Cluster Research Programme for 2010 and 2011 by signing a Partner Customer agreement. The company has participated as a so-called Invitee in the Wood-derived Renewables cluster and the forerunning New Fibres New Materials cluster for many years.
– We are very happy to welcome Brødrene Hartmann as a Partner customer. This agreement is yet another example of the Cluster Research Programme attracting companies in new categories outside the traditional pulp and paper industry. Brødrene Hartmann, a packaging company offering products based on renewable raw materials, will make a valuable contribution to the Programme, says Anders Pettersson, Senior Vice President Research at Innventia.
– We are looking forward to our extended cooperation and expect to gain a lot value from it, says Tomas Schou Winther, Director, R&D and Sustainability at Brødrene Hartmann A/S.
With this Partner agreement, Brødrene Hartmann is now one of 21 companies participating in the long-term research work at Innventia called the Cluster Research Programme 2009-2011. The volume of this programme is approx. SEK 100 million per year and each company has signed a 3-year contract (minimum). Sharing the investment costs in R&D, the participating companies reduce their risks and benefit many times over from the investment.
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Marianne Lockner
Manager, PR & Communication
INNVENTIA AB
Visit: Drottning Kristinas väg 61
Mail: Box 5604, SE-114 86 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel: +46 8 676 7000 (7311)
Mobile: +46 768 76 7311
Fax: +46 8 411 55 18
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www.innventia.com
INNVENTIA – Boosting business with science
Suzano Pulp and Paper to plant 145 million Eucalyptus trees in 2010
In 2009, the company planted approximately 73 million eucalyptus seedlings on its own properties; 21 million of which were allocated for the two new mills.
Suzano Pulp and Paper, one of the leading integrated pulp and paper producers in Latin America, will plant more than 145 million eucalyptus seedlings throughout 2010 to develop its forestry base. The eucalyptus trees will supply the industrial units currently in operation and the new growth cycle, allowing the company to reach, over the next decade, an annual production capacity of 7.2 million tons of pulp. This investment cycle encompasses two new mills, one in Maranhão State and another in Piauí State, which should startup in 2013 and 2014 respectively, and a third site yet to be determined, in addition to the Mucuri Unit expansion.
With this forestry investment, the company will plant approximately 398,000 trees a day. In 2009, the company planted approximately 73 million eucalyptus seedlings on its own properties; 21 million of which were allocated for the two new mills. In order to achieve these goals, Suzano invested R$ 361.1 million that year alone. In 2010, the company will intensify the work at the Forestry Units in Piauí and Maranhão, which will result in 70 million seedlings counting on the support from its nursery in Maranhão that has a capacity to produce 12 million seedlings annually, and a nursery to be set up in Piauí, with a forecasted production of 30 million seedlings per year.
Currently, the company has met 75% of its needs for land to supply the Maranhão mill and 100% of the land to ensure production in Piauí as from 2014. Over 1,700 direct employees and outsourced personnel are already working in the states of Maranhão and Piauí to meet the labor requirements needed to set up the forestry base for the units contemplated in the new growth cycle.
Also last year, Suzano plantations captured 4.3 million tons of carbon in comparison to the approximately one million tons of the gas it released into the atmosphere a positive balance.
source:
http://www.suzano.com.br
Metso sells its assets
Metso sells its Flexowell conveyor belt operations and related assets in Moers, Germany, to ContiTech Transportbandsysteme GmbH. Flexowell operations consist of conveyor belts and systems for bulk material handling, and it is part of Metso's Mining and Construction Technology segment. Conveyor belts and bulk material handling systems will continue to be an essential part of Metso's offering to mining and construction industries also in the future. The sale is part of Metso's strategy to develop and simplify current production network, the aim of which is to improve the competitiveness of the business and to further develop customer service. The final closing will require relevant regulatory approvals. The sale will have no material impact on Metso's financial performance.
Flexowell conveyor belt business is planned to be transferred to ContiTech Transportbandsysteme GmbH on May 1, 2010. All personnel related to the Flexowell operations in Moers will be transferred to ContiTech Transportbandsysteme GmbH.
ContiTech Transportbandsysteme GmbH is a development partner, manufacturer and system supplier of steel-cable and textile-ply conveyor belts, service materials and special products with worldwide installation and maintenance service. ContiTech Transportbandsysteme GmbH is owned by ContiTech AG.
Metso is a global supplier of sustainable technology and services for mining, construction, power generation, automation, recycling and the pulp and paper industries. We have about 27,000 employees in more than 50 countries. www.metso.com
Further information for the press, please contact:
João Ney Colagrossi, President, Services business line, tel. +358 50 317 3820
Mark Glendenning, VP, Conveyor Solutions, Services business line, tel. +46 410 52519