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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
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) released new industry guidance aiming to give consumers confidence on the recyclability of paper padded mailers.
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KraftPal Technologies announced a US$123.9 million equity investment from Pasaca Capital Inc. (Pasaca), a California-based private equity firm, which will allow KraftPal significantly to expand the production of its lightweight, eco-friendly, low-cost, and highly durable corrugated pallets and accelerate a massive paradigm shift throughout the pallet industry.
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Resolute Forest Products Inc. announced two separate transactions to grow and improve the competitiveness of its wood products business.
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BTG and Pehart Group have announced the start-up of an innovative program designed to provide the Pehart Group with Industry 4.0 tools as well as industry-leading tissue expertise and services. The goal is to improve the Pehart manufacturing processes from stock preparation to end converting through sustainable continuous improvements.
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The boards of Rottneros and Arctic Paper have decided to invest EUR 15 million in a moulded fiber tray factory at Arctic Papers premises in Kostrzyn, Poland.
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Stora Enso invests EUR 9 million in an automated CLT (cross-laminated timber) coating line at the Ybbs sawmill in Austria. The investment will further strengthen Stora Enso’s position as a leading global provider of engineered wood products for low carbon, sustainable buildings.
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From The Experts
Love may be a battlefield but paper recycling doesn’t have to be. Whether you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day with your loved ones, your friends, your pet or celebrating you, you might be receiving things you don’t know how to recycle.
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Market Roundup
Sappi reported the results of its fiscal first quarter 2022 results.
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The Navigator Company announced that it will increase again its Uncoated Woodfree Paper prices in Europe by 8-15%, following already implemented price increases during January and early February in USA, between 6 and 9%, and in overseas namely in Middle East, North Africa and Latin America, between 7 and 10%.
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Pulp & Paper
Paper Excellence announced an indefinite production slowdown of its Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, BCTMP (Bleached Chemi Thermal Mechanical Pulp) mill due to repeated lack of railway service.
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The volume of industrial production of wood pulp and pulp from other fibrous materials in Russia in 2021 amounted to 8.8 million tons, which is 0.7% more than a year earlier, according to recent data, published by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).
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ANDRITZ has received an order from ICT Poland to deliver two heat recovery chains for the PM12 and PM14 tissue machines at its mill in Kostrzyn. Start-up is scheduled for 2022.
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Containerboard/Packaging
Menasha Packaging Company, LLC, a subsidiary of Menasha Corporation, has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of Color-Box, a business unit of Georgia-Pacific, LLC.
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Ilim Group announced that its corrugated box plants — Dmitrov and Kommunar — delivered a record-high volume of 282 million square meters (131 thousand tons) of products in 2021.
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New Products
The strongest part of a tree lies not in its trunk or its sprawling roots, but in the walls of its microscopic cells.
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Sustainability
UPM Raflatac continues its efforts to lead the label industry into a net-zero carbon emission future. The company raises its climate ambition to accelerate its journey towards being the world's first label materials company beyond fossils.
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Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc., the oldest continuously operating paper mill in the United States, raised its level of support to Gold Patron of the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership, taking a more active role in the future of the printing supply chain.
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People
SCA has appointed Andreas Ewertz as its new CFO, effective May 1. He replaces, Toby Lawton, who is leaving his position for personal reasons. Ewertz will also become a member of SCA group management.
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Lecta announces that, effective 1 March 2022, Gilles Van Nieuwenhuyzen will become CEO of Lecta Group. He will also be appointed as Director of Lecta Ltd succeeding Eduardo Querol.
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TAPPI News
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