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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 Career Wire
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TAPPI News
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Weekly Spotlight
A.Celli Group, founded in 1944 by Alvaro Celli, has become one of the most significant and prestigious industrial entities in Lucca, Italy and international business scene. To commemorate this important anniversary, the first celebratory occasion was held with an institutional dinner tracing the Group’s years of history.
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Overmade received the green light to proceed with the implementation of the Phase 2 of the new tissue production park in the Middle East area. Zain Paper Industry, an important player in the Middle East, will implement the new tissue production park in Doha, Quatar.
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McKinely Paper plans to shut-down operations at its paper mill in Port Angeles, Washington, and lay-off 193 employees on August 25. The Peninsula Daily News reported that the company sent an email to employees earlier this week notifying them of an "indefinite mass layoff affecting approximately 193 employees."
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Suzano said that it will not it will not pursue a transaction involving the acquisition of International Paper.
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From The Experts
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Heidi Brock issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s recent decisions to stay the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Good Neighbor” plan and overturn the longstanding Chevron precedent:
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Market Roundup
SCA announced that they will increase kraftliner prices by €60 per metric ton in Europe.
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In 2023, overseas shipments of cartons, boxes and cases of corrugated paper or paperboard decreased by -2.4% to 383K tons, falling for the second year in a row after five years of growth.
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Ukraine’s Cardboard and Paper Company LLC made products worth around UAH 506.2 million (US$12.5 million) in the first five months of this year. This represented a drop of 3.5 percent compared with the January-May 2023 period.
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Pulp & Paper
Valmet is to deliver an Advantage DCT100HS tissue line to Andhra Paper Limited for its Kadiyam mill in Andhra Pradesh, India. The new line is optimized to enhance production and reduce environmental footprint. The start-up is scheduled for the end of 2025.
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Suzano announced that the operational start-up of its new pulp mill in Ribas do Rio Pardo, located in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul ("Cerrado Project"), Brazil, will take place in July 2024.
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As a step in the strategy of getting more out of every tree, Södra is now establishing a new business to become a world leader in the production of kraft lignin. Södra's production facility will be the first commercial facility in Sweden and the largest of its kind in the world. This is an investment of over two billion SEK and expected to be in operation in 2027.
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Valmet has received two orders from one of its major customers in Asia-Pacific. One order includes a complete papermaking line from stock preparation to reel and winders, a comprehensive automation solution package as well as spare parts and consumables packages.
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Containerboard/Packaging
DS Smith, a leading global provider of sustainable fiber-based packaging solutions, has partnered with Carlsberg in Poland to introduce DS Smith Round Wrap to selected product lines.
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Recycling Today reports that by the end of 2022, the phenomenon that has become known as the “cardboard box recession” had taken shape, and in early 2023, one analyst even observed “echoes of the Great Financial Crisis everywhere one looks.”
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New Products
Mondi, a global leader in sustainable packaging and paper, is announcing the Spanish launch of its ground-breaking SolmixBag in collaboration with Cemex, by bringing it to the building industry on the Balearic Islands of Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca.
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A leading producer of packaging, speciality and graphic papers, is pleased to announce the launch of Algro Volume, the latest addition to Sappi’s Algro paperboard family. Produced at Sappi Europe’s Maastricht Mill, The Netherlands, Algro Volume is a premium paperboard, ideal for demanding and durable packaging and graphic solutions.
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Saica Group and Mondelez have joined forces to launch a new paper-based product targeted to multipacks-products for the confectionery, biscuits and chocolate markets.
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Sustainability
Generation Z and Millennial consumers are more likely to pay a premium for products that are legitimately sustainable in some way, from materials to packaging to delivery.
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Norske Skog officially opened a new thermomechanical pulp (TMP) production line at its pulp and paper mill in Skogn, Norway. Norske Skog first announced the NOK 180 million (USD 18.2 million) TMP line project in January 2023. The company received grant funding of about NOK 40-50 million from the NOx fund.
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We're constantly inventing and thinking big to make our packaging small. We want to ensure that customers receive their items undamaged, while using as little packaging as possible to avoid waste, and prioritizing recyclable materials.
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Paper Excellence Canada has published its fourth sustainability report: New Horizons: Paper Excellence Canada to Become Part of a Bigger Whole.
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People
On June 19, 2024, Christian Schiel, a former Voith employee, was posthumously inducted into the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame (PIIHOF) in recognition of his many innovative developments that contributed greatly to modern paper machine designs.
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Gunnar Eberhardt has been appointed Executive Vice President, UPM Communication Papers. He will be a member of UPM’s Group Executive Team and report to Massimo Reynaudo, President and CEO. He will start in his role in October 2024.
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AS Hekotek informs that starting from June the company has a new Chairman of Executive Board and CEO Margo Muzakko. Margo has been working at Hekotek since 2011, having been the Head of project division for 10 years.
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TAPPI Career Wire
Ada County Highway District Garden City, Idaho
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Morgantown, West Virginia
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University of California, Irvine Health Affairs Irvine, California
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Mercer Group Associates Lawrenceville, Georgia
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NYU Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
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TAPPI News
Entries are due July 12, 2024 for the industry-wide competition at SuperCorrExpo®
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Reserve your spot now and get ready to explore a wide range of topics crucial to the industry on October 1-3 in Denver, CO.
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Hurry, register today for Chicago TAPPI’s 24th Annual Golf Outing & Dinner
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Nanotechnology professionals, academics, and students came from around the world for this interactive five-day event.
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Honored for Innovative Research Efforts
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