As quarantines and stay-at-home orders put people out of work and closed schools in the first few months of 2020, food banks around the world began to see a dramatic increase in need for food. International Paper, a leading producer of fiber-based packaging, pulp and paper, quickly responded with a commitment to donate two million corrugated boxes to food banks in its communities.

MEPCO and Toscotec signed a turnkey supply contract for a high efficiency AHEAD 2.2L tissue machine. Toscotec is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, specialized in turnkey projects, complete lines, rebuilds and single equipment for the tissue and paper & board industries.

Omya has launched Omya PrimeFill 60, an innovative ground calcium carbonate mineral filler specially designed for opacity and strength enhancement across all graphic paper and packaging grades.

Smurfit Kappa UK & Ireland is investing in high quality print and conversion equipment in Tannochside, Scotland.  This investment further enhances the already unrivalled market offering of the Smurfit Kappa Print Division.

Paper Excellence plans to restart Number 11 Paper Machine at Catalyst Powell River, a Paper Excellence company, on or around May 1, 2021. The restart reflects the recent recovery in global paper markets and Paper Excellence’s long-term commitment to the Powell River facility.

Pasaban Upgrades, the ideal solution to get the best out of paper and cardboard converting equipment. Upgrading sheeters and winders is essential to increase the life of old machines and improve their performance.

Forest2Market reports that as global consumer trends and demands continue to shift at an escalating pace — especially given the events of 2020 — markets for wood fiber residuals have undergone both structural and temporal changes. A comprehensive Forest2Market report on this topic sought to understand the relationship between the supply and demand of wood residual materials over a 10-year period from 2007-2017.

ABB and international producer Sun Paper have completed the successful activation of a major drives project at the first modern pulp and paper site in Laos as part of an investment towards reaching an output of 1.2 million tons of pulp and paper annually.

ANDRITZ said that it has successfully started up the tissue production line delivered to Berli Jucker Cellox's mill in Prachinburi, Thailand.

Valmet has received several pulp technology orders from Nine Dragons to its pulp mills in China. The deliveries include fiberlines and core components for recovery boilers and lime kilns. The deliveries will be done in phases and the start-ups are scheduled for 2022 and 2023.

At the construction site of the Palm paper mill in Neukochen, the assembly of the world’s fastest and widest corrugated base paper machine is now in its final phase.

A new online platform, openpack, has recently been launched by German company, Cipa GmbH, to address corrugated board plant operators and all other participants and partners in the industry.

WestRock (NYSE: WRK), a leading provider of differentiated paper and packaging solutions, has announced it is partnering with Heinz UK to implement WestRock’s Cluster-Wing™ paperboard multipack design to continue to remove single-use plastic packaging from supermarket shelves.

Martin McTigue, VP of International Customer Service at BW Papersystems, has confirmed that the company has now shipped two new converting lines to Al-Medan Project Factory For Carton, based in Saudi Arabia.

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG)  announces Bredel heavy-duty hose pumps to provide high metering accuracy and excellent resistance to the viscous and abrasive chemicals commonly used in the pulp and paper industry.

Graphic Packaging International is emphasizing its commitment to supporting beverage brands on their plastics reduction journey with its latest recyclable paperboard packaging solution, Cap-It™.

Toscotec upgraded its YES-CONNECT-VISION AR (Augmented Reality) system to provide faster and more effective remote services. After launching the first version in 2018, Toscotec perfected the system based on user feedback and practice in the field. With this improved tool, mill operators wearing an ergonomic helmet fitted with a high definition camera send out high-resolution images and audio in real time, becoming the eyes and the ears of Toscotec’s service team inside the mill.

Although Bag-in-Box is already a very sustainable packaging, by enabling considerable plastic and CO2 reduction, Smurfit Kappa is continuing to focus effort on raw material innovations, especially by incorporating recycled or bio-based resins to our taps and bags, where the food safety regulations allow it. One of the main steps of this initiative has been recently achieved with the ISCC PLUS certification.

Mainstream Pine Products, LLC, announced plans for an estimated $90 million crude tall oil (CTO) biorefinery at the Charleston International Manufacturing Center (CIMC) in Berkeley County. The biorefinery will be a highly advanced recycling facility with capacity to process 110,000 tons of CTO for use in a wide range of industrial applications.

Klabin, Brazil’s largest exporter and producer of paper for packaging solutions, was include for the first time ever in the Sustainability Yearbook 2021 compiled by S&P Global, which is responsible for the ESG assessments of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).

PaperAge announced that Michael P. Doss, President and Chief Executive Officer of Graphic Packaging Holding Company is the recipient of PaperAge's 34th annual "Executive Papermaker of the Year" award.

BillerudKorsnäs announced that Helene Biström, Executive Vice President Commercial, has decided to leave the company at her own request.

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