| Thursday, December 16, 2021 - Member
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Weekly Spotlight
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From The Experts
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Market Roundup
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Pulp & Paper
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Containerboard/Packaging
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New Products
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Sustainability
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People
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TAPPI News
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Weekly Spotlight
Valmet will supply a long-term Performance Agreement and a board machine rebuild to Metsä Board Husum in Sweden. The main goal is to increase board machine BM 1's Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) and annual folding boxboard (FBB) capacity by 200,000 metric tons.
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CMPC announced an agreement to purchase the forest and industrial assets of the pulp, paper and sack businesses of Iguaçu Celulose, Papel S.A., located in the States of Paraná and Santa Catarina of Brazil.
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Smurfit Kappa announced the completion of a two-phase upgrade of its facilities at the Barranquilla Paper Mill in Colombia. The US$7.5 million investment will see the implementation of a Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) with state-of-the-art anaerobic technology, which will reduce water intake from the nearby Magdalena River and improve the quality of water returned to it.
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Latvia faces with a shortage of paper and a significant increase of prices for it this year, according to recent statements made by representatives of some leading local producers and analysts.
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From The Experts
Ghazal Amar, Global Product Manager at Pulp and Paper, ABB, discusses the needs and solutions.
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Market Roundup
In fiscal year 2020/21 (to Sept. 30), the Voith Group has again successfully managed the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and was able to improve its main financial figures in a challenging market environment characterized by global supply chain bottlenecks and substantially higher raw material costs.
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The Navigator Company announced that it will increase the list price for all of its UWF (Uncoated Woodfree) paper products by 10-15 percent, effective with shipments from January 3, 2022, onwards.
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Pulp & Paper
Pregis announced the start-up of its new $14 million manufacturing plant in McDonough, Georgia. The 298,000 square foot facility will be producing the Pregis EverTec™ mailer which features lightweight, curbside recyclable paper, cushioned construction.
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Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) has awarded Red Leaf Pulp Ltd. $3.8 Million to commercialize an innovative and game-changing pulping technology using wheat straw and other sustainable agricultural resources along with wood-based pulp in traditional applications.
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Austrocel, a specialty pulp and renewable energy company based in Austria, will not resume operations at the pulp mill in Hallein before January 2022, Euwid reports.
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Andritz has successfully started up one of the two PrimeLineTM W 2000 tissue machines delivered to Guangxi Sun Paper, China, for its mill in Beihai City, Guangxi Province. The second tissue machine (TM6) is expected to be started up by the end of this year.
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AS Estonian Cell pulp mill has temporarily stopped production over record high energy prices and asked the Estonian government to alleviate the situation by bringing down energy prices for energy-intensive industry.
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Containerboard/Packaging
Valmet will supply a long-term Performance Agreement and a board machine rebuild to Metsä Board Husum in Sweden. The main goal is to increase board machine BM 1’s Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) and annual folding boxboard (FBB) capacity by 200,000 metric tons.
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Cascade Brewery will no longer use plastic shrink wrap packaging on its six-pack bottles of beer, opting to use Westrock-designed cardboard packs instead, saving around half a million pieces of plastic from entering the environment each year.
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New Products
Valmet has entered into an agreement with GORE-TEX Professional to be the exclusive and sole distributor of GORE® PYRAD® Vulcan Smelt Protective garments.
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Customers worldwide rely on Voith's modular Papermaking 4.0 portfolio to individually optimize their production with the leading digital industrial applications. Based on extensive expertise, Voith is introducing OnEfficiency.BreakProtect, OnView.VirtualSensorBuilder and OnView.MassBalance, three new apps on the IIoT platform OnCumulus.
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Sustainability
Smurfit Kappa, leading company in the production of paper-based packaging, has completed a two-phase upgrade of its facilities at the Barranquilla Paper Mill in Colombia.
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Sappi Limited marks another milestone in sustainability as its Cloquet Mill in Northern Minnesota (USA) is one of the first dissolving pulp facilities to complete an external environmental-management verification process.
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People
Ahlstrom-Munksjö announced that Mark Ushpol has been appointed Executive Vice President of the Food Packaging & Technical Solutions business area and a member of the Group Executive Management team as of January 1, 2022. He succeeds Robyn Buss, who has announced her retirement effective at the end of 2021.
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Stora Enso has appointed Johanna Hagelberg Executive Vice President, Biomaterials division. She will continue as a member of the Group Leadership Team (GLT).
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Clearwater Paper Corporation announced a key divisional executive appointment. Michael (Mike) Urlick has been named senior vice president and general manager of the consumer products division, effective January 1, 2022. Urlick succeeds Joanne Shufelt, who will be retiring from the company in 2022.
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TAPPI News
TAPPI’s Introduction to Pulp and Paper Technology Course in January helps you understand how all the major processes in operations fit together.
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This January event offers both students and hiring companies a chance to network outside of the traditional corporate settings, as well as conduct formal interviews.
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Learn ways to address evaporator fouling, scaling and lime kiln ringing and more with a large panel of instructors.
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TAPPI honors TAPPI member (1978): Burton Moore Judson
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Remember to submit your abstract for TAPPI Nano 2022, 13-17 June 2022 in Helsinki, Finland
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Make an impact on their financial well-being by encouraging them to apply for TAPPI Scholarships.
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