Ahlström Collective Impact (ACI), a joint responsibility initiative by a group of companies and foundations, continues to support UNICEF’s global education work with an investment of close to EUR 800 000. Ahlstrom is one of the members and founding partners of the initiative.

Voith announces the opening of a new OnPerformance.Lab (OPL) site in São Paulo, Brazil, South America. With this expansion, Voith strengthens its regional footprint and expands its service, optimization and consulting activities.

PaperWorks Industries has completed the acquisition of The Standard Group. Founded in 1932, The Standard Group is a converter of custom printed paperboard packaging with a manufacturing location in Louisville, Kentucky.

Klabin, Brazil’s largest producer and exporter of packaging paper and sustainable solutions in paper packaging, will conduct a maintenance shutdown at its Monte Alegre Unit in Telêmaco Borba, Paraná, from June 28 to July 8.

Toscotec has successfully launched a new digital online Training Center, which offers in-depth and continuously updated technical information and user-friendly education tools. The onboarding of 10 tissue producers was completed in only three months.

Zeus Group has announced the acquisition of James Hamilton Group, a leading Northern Irish print and packaging business.

International technology group ANDRITZ will supply a new black liquor evaporation plant to the unbleached kraft pulp producer Hyogo Pulp Industries, Ltd., Japan. It will replace the mill’s two existing evaporation lines.

ABB will supply Stora Enso's Oulu pulp and paper mill in Northern Finland with sectional drive systems. The mill plans to convert an idled paper machine to the production of folding box board (FBB) and coated unbleached kraft (CUK).

Lecta  announced that it will cease paper production on PM4 at its Condat mill in Le Lardin St Lazare, France, due to the significant decline in demand for graphic papers.

ABB has launched its latest Automation Software Maintenance (ASM) lifecycle management program to cover the software related to Paper Machine Drives (PMC800) and Pulp and Paper Process Control Library (PPLib800xA). The new service offering is an extension of ABB’s ASM program, and complements the Quality Control System (QCS) ASM program that was introduced in January 2023.

Stora Enso, a leading global provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials and wooden constructions, has selected ABB for supplying sectional drive systems for their Oulu mill in Northern Finland, where their former paper line will be converted into a consumer board line for folding box board and coated unbleached kraft.

When Emballages Mega Packaging, a family-owned mid-size folding carton manufacturer, sought a new offset press to take its production capabilities to the next level with advanced automation and cutting-edge technology, the firm’s management team signed a contract for a new generation fully-loaded Koenig & Bauer Rapida 106 six-color press hybrid UV with coater. The Montreal, Quebec firm will take delivery in the fall of 2023.

Stora Enso has opened a new corrugated packaging production factory at De Lier, the Netherlands. The site is part of the recently acquired De Jong Packaging Group, now Business Unit Western Europe in the Packaging Solutions division.

UPM Biomedicals' innovative wound dressing FibDex is undergoing a clinical investigation of performance and safety in patients with superficial dermal burns. The clinical investigation will be conducted by the Burn Centre of Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden, and is estimated to be completed in the beginning of the year 2025.

SolmixBag is a one-ply paper bag created to store and transport dry construction materials such as cement and dry mix mortar products. It’s designed to dissolve when getting in contact with water during the mixing process - the fibre of the packaging simply integrates with the product as it is mixed.

Voith launched the new InfibraFiner, adding a state-of-the-art, innovative and sustainable product to its BlueLine product family. The award-winning refiner offers up to 28 percent additional capacity and optimum energy efficiency.

Sustainable packaging solutions provider DS Smith has launched a new sustainable shelf-ready packaging solution, known as DD Wrap. The new solution has been created to promote the company’s circular economy efforts by minimising waste and saving resources at the core of the design.

Metsä Board, the leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards and part of Metsä Group, has, once again, achieved the highest Platinum level in EcoVadis’ sustainability assessment. The company has achieved the highest level or rating every year since 2017.

With a joint investment of approximately EUR 29 million by Stora Enso and Tetra Pak, a new recycling line for post-consumer beverage cartons is starting operations in Poland. Stora Enso has invested approximately EUR 17 million into a new repulping line that will recover the carton fibers, and Tetra Pak along with Plastigram have invested a total of approximately EUR 12 million to build the new line.

Paper Excellence Canada has published its third sustainability report: Forward Focused: 2022 Sustainability Report.

West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. ("West Fraser" or the "Company") (TSX and NYSE: WFG) released its 2022 Sustainability Report, providing a comprehensive disclosure on topics such as climate action, sustainable forestry and environmental performance as well as a newly developed social performance strategy outlining priorities in areas including safety, diversity, equity and inclusion and Indigenous relations.

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Active Energy (AIM: AEG, OTCQB: ATGVF), the international waste biomass-based renewable energy company has appointed Barron Hewetson, Ph.D. as Chief Technology Officer.

Valmet announced that Petri Rasinmäki (M.Sc. Eng, MBA) has been appointed Business Line President, Paper, at Valmet as of September 1, 2023. In his new position, Rasinmäki will be a member of Valmet's Executive Team reporting to President and CEO Pasi Laine.

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