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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
FedEx recognizes Synthetic Opioid Safety (SOS) kit, which has nonwoven wipe as its component.
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Global technology company Voith is proud to announce its recognition as a finalist in the 2023 Manufacturing Leadership Awards for outstanding achievement in the category of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
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Billerud announced the temporary idling of the Escanaba Mill for up to three weeks as a precautionary measure to protect the health and safety of its employees and contractors due to a blastomycosis fungal infection outbreak.
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From The Experts
The Times Union Editorial Board expressed support (“ A budget with heart,” March 29) for a one-size-fits-all Extended Producer Responsibility program in the governor’s budget. Instead of rushing complex EPR policy through the budgeting process, lawmakers should pursue a more deliberate, thoughtful approach.
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Market Roundup
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) released the March 2023 Printing-Writing Monthly report.
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Heinzel Group announced a record-breaking year in 2022, achieving the highest turnover and the best earnings in the company's history. At the same time Heinzel Group reduced its CO2 emissions substantially, in line with its climate targets and sustainability strategy.
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Sappi Limited on Sept. 14 announced that the intended sale to Aurelius Group of its Maastricht Mill in the Netherlands, its Stockstadt Mill in Germany and its Kirkniemi Mill in Finland (the "Transaction") has not materialized within the agreed timeframe of the contractual agreement and therefore the agreement has lapsed.
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Pulp & Paper
MG TEC Industry successfully started up its second complete tissue production line from ANDRITZ at its mill in Dej, Romania. The first line went into operation in 2021.
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Stora Enso announced plans to consolidate its book paper production and permanently close one of the two paper machines at the Anjala Mill in southern Finland.
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Valmet has signed an extension of the service agreement with AS Estonian Cell aspen pulp mill in Kunda, Estonia. The previous three-year agreement between Estonian Cell and Valmet was extended to an additional five years.
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Toscotec has recently received several orders from a confidential US producer for a total of 30 TT SteelDryer cylinders. Through repeated orders, this confidential group has so far purchased close to 50 TT SteelDryers for installation at 4 different locations in the USA.
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Containerboard/Packaging
Construction is scheduled to begin soon on a $91 million upgrade at Georgia-Pacific’s containerboard mill in Monticello. It’s one of the company’s largest investments in the Lawrence County facility.
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Cytiva is pioneering an innovative recyclable packaging solution to replace polystyrene through its Designing in Sustainability strategy. In collaboration with TemperPack, a leading provider of cold chain packaging, new liners are made with renewable paper and corn starch as their primary ingredients.
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New Products
In April, the Swedish greentech company Mantex AB visits the USA to market the company's product Biomass Analyzer. Mantex has developed the Biomass Analyzer, an analysis equipment that, through revolutionary X-ray based technology, determines the accurate moisture content of biomass such as wood chips in less than 2 minutes.
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Working closely with partners from across the food packaging value network, UPM Specialty Papers is co-creating transformative solutions that reimagine the future of sustainable packaging.
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Hoffmann Neopac, a global provider of high-quality packaging and dosing applications for pharma, beauty and oral care, has introduced its PaperX Tube series, which utilizes thin-walled 300 micron fiber-based laminate with 80% paper content to drastically reduce both plastic materials use and overall carbon footprint.
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Sustainability
Under the motto “Papermaking for Life” Voith is taking part at the TAPPICon in Atlanta, GA, from April 22 to 26, 2023. Together with BTG, the global technology company will feature its versatile technologies and initiatives that lead to more efficient and sustainable processes in papermaking at booth 513.
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Why buy something new when you can renovate and upgrade? These are values packaging giant Billerud in Karlsborg, northern Sweden, lives by. So a retrofit solution with new energy-efficient circuit breakers was a perfect match when its decades-old switchgear needed new life.
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At Metsä Board we aim to achieve fossil free production and further improve our energy self-sufficiency by the end of 2030. Currently, 87% of the energy used at our mills is fossil free.
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People
Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM) announced that Michael Osborne joined the company on April 10, 2023, as Vice President, Manufacturing, replacing Bill Manzer, who has announced his plans to retire. Osborne is a thirty-plus-year manufacturing veteran, most recently holding the position of Vice President, Global Manufacturing for Kraton Pine Chemicals.
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TAPPI News
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