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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
International technology group ANDRITZ will relocate and upgrade a fiberline for Yueyang Forest & Paper to produce premium quality fibers for its new paper machine.
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One Equity Partners ("OEP") today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Walki Holding Oy ("Walki" or the "Company"), a pan-European supplier of sustainable and high-performing packaging and engineered materials solutions, to Oji Holdings Corporation ("Oji Group"), a Japanese paper products technology company.
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Paper Excellence announced that it is again extending the production downtime of paper operations at its pulp and paper mill located on Vancouver Island in Crofton, British Columbia, Canada, to the end of November.
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A.Celli Paper is delighted to announce the positive conclusion of its “SMARNIP® T Tissue Shoe Press” Open House event, held from October 11 to 13, 2023. The event garnered widespread attention and was attended by over one hundred guests from some of the world’s most prominent tissue and paper manufacturers.
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From The Experts
By Angeli Mehta, Reuters
As part of developing a biomass strategy, the UK government asked a group of experts to look at whether using forest biomass for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) could deliver net permanent removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Market Roundup
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) released the September 2023 Printing-Writing Monthly report.
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Pulp & Paper
Toscotec started up a packaging paper machine at Cartiera Pirinoli after the complete rebuild of the press section at their Roccavione facility in Italy.
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UPM Communication Papers announced plans to permanently close its Plattling mill in Germany to align graphic paper capacity to the customer demand.
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Overmade has been committed by Zain Paper Industry, an important player in the Middle East, to realize the new tissue production park in Doha, Qatar. The first phase of the project encompassed the installation of two complete tissue plants for the production of high-quality facial tissue.
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Containerboard/Packaging
A global packaging and paper manufacturer has commissioned Voith to rebuild its production line into a state-of-the-art production facility for recycled packaging papers. Commissioning of the rebuilt production line is scheduled for 2025.
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Metsä Group is conducting a pre-study related to the construction of a first commercial mill for producing Muoto™ packaging products on its Rauma mill site in Finland. The goal is to determine the mill's technical feasibility and economic profitability.
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International Paper announced a series of actions to further strengthen and optimize its manufacturing system to meet customers' needs. The company will permanently close its containerboard mill in Orange, Texas, and will permanently cease production on two of its pulp machines --- the #20 machine in Riegelwood, North Carolina, and the #4 machine in Pensacola, Florida.
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VPK Group has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Zetacarton, an Italian corrugated cardboard company based near Como. With this new step, VPK Group is setting foot in Italy for the first time.
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New Products
Ahlstrom is extending its product range of pressure-sensitive adhesive packaging tape applications. MasterTape® Pack supplements the fiber-based product offering supporting megatrends like e-commerce and the global need for more sustainable packaging solutions.
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ISRI, the Voice of the Recycled Materials Industry™, has launched a new tool to help recycle more packaging in the United States. The new Fiber Recycling Readiness Tool is a research-based online resource developed by ISRI that assesses the compatibility of typical consumer fiber-based packaging we use every day with the U.S. residential recycling system.
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Sustainability
International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from the pulp and paper producer The Navigator Company to supply a new recovery boiler, new ash leaching system and an upgrade of the non-condensable gases (NCG) collection and incineration system for its pulp mill in Setúbal, Portugal.
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The hygiene and health company Essity has inaugurated the world's first production line for professional hygiene tissue products where the raw material consists of used food and milk packaging. The facility recycles 25,000 tons per year, equivalent to 60% of all collected, sorted and recycled food and beverage cartons in France.
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The 4evergreen Alliance unveiled five selected projects from its first "Circularity Success Stories" initiative, which showcases members' remarkable efforts to increase the recycling rate of fibre-based packaging to 90% by 2030.
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People
Resolute's Claudia Roberge, superintendent, Health and Safety - Lac-Saint-Jean and Mauricie (Quebec) woodlands operations, has been recognized at the 2023 Globee® Awards for Women in Business.
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The Nomination Committee of Essity Aktiebolag (publ) proposes that Jan Gurander be appointed Chairman and member of Essity's Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting in March 2024.
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TAPPI News
TAPPI Nano 2024 Call for Presentations is now open! Submit your abstracts by Monday, 08 January 2024
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Registration is open for the popular technical and networking event taking place December 14-15 in Williamsburg, VA.
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TAPPI honors the legacy of Dr. Torbjorn Helle
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Co-located conferences create a unique synergy of expertise and innovation. Register for PEERS and IBBC 2023 today.
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Don’t miss your final opportunity of 2023 to register for the Basic Financial Training & Strategic Market Analysis Workshop for the Pulp & Paper and Related Industries.
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Learn strategies for processing nanocellulose suspensions as a barrier coating on paper-based substrates.
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