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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
Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, is investing around €5 million in a new research and development (R&D) facility at Mondi Steinfeld, in Germany. This investment will support customers by helping them to develop solutions that achieve their sustainability goals.
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Kemira is implementing a 4% energy surcharge for all Pulp and Paper process and functional chemistries across North America for all non-contract customers, effective October 1, 2022. The surcharge announced in April for inorganic coagulants sold through the company's Industry & Water segment remains in effect.
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UPM Raflatac has completed the acquisition of AMC AG (Advanced Methods of Coating). The acquisition announced in May 2022 was closed on 15 September 2022 after regulatory clearances. AMC AG employs more than 300 people and has two production sites in Northern Germany, in Kaltenkirchen and in Hagenow.
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From The Experts
By Tor Idhammar
The purpose of this article is to raise questions and challenge plant leadership on strategy, vision and execution of plant reliability and overall maintenance management.
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Market Roundup
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) released its August 2022 Printing-Writing Monthly report.
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The Lenzing Group, an Austrian supplier of wood-based specialty fibers for the textile and nonwovens industries, suspended its guidance for the development of earnings in the 2022 financial year in view of the drastic deterioration of the market environment in the current quarter.
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Pulp & Paper
Valmet will supply pulp technology equipment for a new pulp stream of unbleached kraft pulp to Zellstoff Pöls AG, Austria. The company is a part of the Heinzel group.
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Stora Enso has signed an agreement to divest its Nymölla paper production site in Sweden, and all related assets to Sylvamo, a US-based global producer of uncoated paper. The enterprise value is EUR 150 million.
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Containerboard/Packaging
Metsä Board announced that it will start pre-engineering for a new folding boxboard mill with an annual capacity of approximately 800,000 metric tons at the Kaskinen mill site in Finland. The pre-engineering phase will include technical design, design of infrastructure and logistics solutions and tendering for the main equipment.
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The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) released its August 2022 Packaging Papers Monthly report.
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The Paperboard Packaging Alliance (PPA) announced the finalists of its 2022 Student Design Challenge, a competition where student teams compete to design innovative paperboard packaging prototypes. The goal of this year’s challenge is to identify a real product currently on the market that isn’t packaged in paperboard and design a new paper-based solution.
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Smurfit Kappa has signed an agreement to acquire PaperBox, a corrugated cardboard packaging plant located in Saquarema, 70 kms east of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This acquisition represents a further expansion of Smurfit Kappa's operational footprint in Brazil as it currently operates in three other states: Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and Ceará.
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New Products
Koehler Paper, part of the Koehler Group, is adding to its flexible packaging paper portfolio with the launch of Koehler NexPure® Wrap. The burger and wrap packaging paper is aimed at fast-food system catering in particular.
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Screen baskets are essential in paper production to remove contaminants from the suspension in the screening process. Since high stresses occur here, Voith developed the C-bar HerculeX screen basket in 2017, which combines maximum stability with the proven C-bar technology.
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WestRock Company (NYSE: WRK), a leading provider of sustainable paper and packaging solutions today announced an expansion of its CanCollar® family of multipack solutions with the introduction of CanCollar® X, a fiber-based solution for sustainable large format canned beverage packaging enabling as much as fifty percent material reduction compared to fully-enclosed traditional packaging.
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Sustainability
Huhtamaki and Stora Enso have joined forces to launch a new paper cup recycling initiative, The Cup Collective. The programme, which is the first of its kind in Europe, aims to recycle and capture the value of used paper cups on an industrial scale.
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As a global leader in sustainable woodfibre products and solutions, sustainability and moving towards a circular economy underpin Sappi’s business strategy.
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People
Cortec® Corporation is pleased to announce the promotion of its Director of Manufacturing, Caleb Pheneger, to the position of Chief Operations Officer (COO).
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To strengthen its competitiveness and increase efficiency, Essity is today announcing the following changes to its organizational structure and Executive Management Team, valid as of December 31, 2022.
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TAPPI honors TAPPI Fellow (1989) and member (1977): Lawrence Harvey Allen
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TAPPI News
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Only one week left until the “The Promise of AI Versus the Reality of AI Today” webinar held Thursday, September 29th 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (ET). Don’t forget to register today.
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October 3, 2022 is the final day to save on registration for TAPPI’s Fiberglass Mat Technical Committee Meeting.
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Recruit the next generation of industry leaders and get your company brand in front of engineering students with participation in the industry’s leading career fair event.
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Successful networking is not about collecting contacts. It’s about planting relationships.
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Chevron Phillips Chemical is looking for applications to fill the position of a Product Development Scientist in Bartlesville, OK. Are you interested? If so, apply today.
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