Over the Wire

According to the report made available this past month by FINAT RADAR, European digital label press installations overtook conventional press sales for the first time in 2017 which was a year of robust growth in markets such as automotive, consumer durables, and industrial chemicals (non-prime label paper segments).

 

Flexible packaging represents approximately 19% of $167 billion U.S. packaging industry, is second largest packaging segment behind corrugated paper. Flexible packaging is produced from paper, plastic, film, aluminum foil, or any combination of those materials. Solid long-term strength, coupled with flexible packaging replacing other packaging formats, helped in growth of flexibles - 17% in 2000 to the current approx. 19% this past year.

 

75% of fluff pulp (fp) is currently used in the production of diapers. FP accounts for 10% of the total pulp market, globally. FP is used to make airlaid paper products (growth: 2.8% CAGR, forecast: five year) and in the hygiene market, principally in one of its most dominant segments: diapers. Primary market challenge is a move within some consumer circles creating demand for fluff pulp free diapers. Baby Diapers to grow by near 6% CAGR projection through 2026, adult diaper segment registering approx. 7.5% CAGR growth 2016-2021.

 

The increase in shipping needs from companies like Amazon has also helped buoy the industry for the U.S. state, along with a rebounding housing market, but there are warnings that there could be a bump in the road just ahead. LSU Professor said while traditional office paper is down, paper related products are up. "It’s on the rise, especially in our exports, things like fluff pulp. Toilet paper, tissue paper, things that like, as all of these other countries, especially as other countries like India, grow their middle class."

 

The U. S. Sanitary Paper Producers’ Price Index was unchanged in August 2018 following four straight increases, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

 

China’s August 2018 pulp imports rose to a nine-month high of 2.231 million metric tons, according to data maintained by the China Customs Bureau.

 

Machine has a daily production of 65 tpd and is equipped with TT SuctionPressRoll, TT SYD-3200MM and TT Milltech-MGYH Multigen hoods. The scope of supply also includes the approach flow system, the steam and condensate system, and machine and distribution control system. PM5 is the fourth repeated order by Celupaper to Toscotec in 4 years.

 

Valmet's delivery included an Advantage DCT 135HS machine with Valmet's key technologies OptiFlo Headbox, Advantage ViscoNip press, AirCap hood and steel Yankee dryer. The new line has a production capacity of 36,000 metric tpy.

 

Thirty-two thousand Minnesotans work in the forest products industry, which has a $9.1 billion economic impact that’s felt throughout the state. From Aitkin to Zumbro Falls, nearly 300 Minnesota cities are home to businesses from which the forest products industry purchases goods and services. MFI giving away free Red Pine seedlings, hand-held, tree-shaped fans and other materials.

 

Paper-based food packaging needs a coating to prevent water or oxygen from penetrating the packaging and spoiling the foodstuff inside. Up to the present this protective coating is manufactured from petroleum-based plastic. For several decades, researchers have been trying to find a good bio-based material to replace fossil-based raw materials. Research done at Karlstad University now shows that a mixture of lignin from wood and starch can satisfy this need.

 

Fully independent manufacturer of corrugated headquartered in the Netherlands has effectively completed the acquisition of Gaster Wellpappe, and thus expands cross regionally and expands overall continentally in production expansion with acquisition now into Germany. Gaster to still operate under new ownership retaining current name and basic identity.

 

Designed to combine the versatility of digital with the quality and speed of offset printing at a low cost per page. It has the capability to print on any off-the-shelf substrate, from coated and uncoated paper stocks to synthetic substrates and paperboard—up to 32 point—without the need for pre- or post-treatment of any type.

 

Since SoOPAK produces a variety of packaging, the new Promatrix 106 CS’s ability to handle substrates from 65-lb text to 48-pt board and offer a maximum sheet size of 29.92 x 41.7-inch provides greater flexibility. The cutting section on the machine contains a thin plate and micro adjustment in which no hand tools are needed to unlock the cutting tools.

 

Currently, the Oulu site has a manufacturing capacity of 360,000 metric tpy of softwood pulp and a million and 80,000 metric tpy of coated wood free paper on two machines. The potential investment would include a new thermomechanical cellulose pulp (CTMP) plant, a line of unbleached cardboard with a capacity of 450,000 metric tpy and a line of kraftliner with a capacity of 400,000 tpy.

 

The world’s second largest economy, ensnared in global trade disputes, said it imposed the duties on imports of cellulose pulp from Brazil, Canada and the U.S. in 2014, prompting Canada to complain to the WTO that year.

 

Nanollose Co. makes use of organic waste matter to produce a sustainable fiber called as Nullarbor. Existing industry sources are said to be sufficient for production during the pilot phase of the project, but Nanollose intends to make use of waste fiber sources from larger industries when full-scale production kicks off. The fiber is officially classified as "plant-free viscose-rayon".

 

New production sees nanocellulose / nano-micro cellulosic structures that for that first time mimic nano cystalline cellulose & general nanocellulose potential while at time same time being applied into a format whereby it can be utilized as simple, thin, film, rollable, ware-house friendly material. Uses different coating roll sizes for different types of appropriate food packaging / preservation needs. Production properties include nontoxicity, biodegradability, high specific strength, high thermal conductivity and optical transparency, all of which make them excellent components for advanced food packaging.

 

These instruments represent the most-modern charge measuring systems for the wet-end in paper and board production and are used to measure the interaction between particles or fibers with additives and process chemicals in the pulp suspension.

 

Newly updated Valmet DNA Dashboard concept within the system takes the visualization of process data "to the next level". Valmet DNA collection 2018 introduces improvements to the IO (Input/Output) products and OPC UA (Unified Architecture) communication capabilities. Valmet DNA Automation System is utilized in pulp, paper, energy and other process industries around the world. NEEDS PIC

 

Specialty coated papers papers for use in food packaging, thermal papers, carbonless copy paper, and barrier papers that require unique types of gloss and that expect top quality production standards in the process are expanded as an offering by the company as an offering to the market at large of European products at U.S. events later this month (Sept. 2018).

 

Enough electricity is produced across the Canadian forest products sector to power the city of Vancouver for an entire year. Over the course of this transformation, the sector has cut its GHGs by approximately 67%. For more than three decades, the Canadian forest products sector has been a leader in the innovation, development, and utilization of clean technologies—and in doing so, has positioned itself at the forefront of energy change that benefits.

 

Researchers identify genes controlling traits to target biofuel, bioproduct production. Algorithm used in work breaks the supercomputing exascale barrier for the first time. Enabling biomass recalcitrance (conversion to energy potential at a more favorable / effective level) is a key focus of this project. Results in new / advanced candidates for further lignin biosynthesis. Lignin remains a focus of rapid development through 2018 within new tech innovation at pulp & fiber mills for fully capturing bioenergy and bioproduct potential.

 

More than 25% funds awarded to American forest industry / pulp & paper, related industries for the production of bioenergy...

 

Company collaboration announced this summer would be first fuel manufacturer in Sweden to use lignin in its production targeted for completion of installation at the Vallvik, Söderhamn Pulp Mill in Sweden by 2021. Samples of lignin from Rottneros’s Pulp Mill already made to Renfuel’s pilot facility, est. for the production of Lignol oil which is then taken to Preem’s refineries, where the raw material is processed to make biofuels.

 

The U.S. Dept. released renewable identification number generation data for July, 2018, reporting that nearly 1.71 billion renewable identification numbers (RINs) were generated during July of 2018, including more than 26.35 million cellulosic RINs which have been included in bold-face in this text for easier identification. Organization of D3 - D7 class bio-mass fuels. RINs issued in significantly greater number for cellulosic fuels than many conventional fuels such as natural gas.

 

Today, the complexity of industrial systems requires increasingly attentive consideration of the theme of safety. Preventing accidents on the job is not a calculation based on a single machine but an outcome of the management logic adopted throughout the production process. And in addition to the normal risk factor, unpleasant unexpected events can arise from deficiencies at the operating phase, lack of clarity in procedures, negligence by operators or human errors. Without forgetting that year after year, international norms and directives to regulate the issue abound.

 

The Ortviken paper mill in Sundsvall manufactures coated and uncoated printed paper, has a capacity of 775 thousand metric tpy and has 625 employees. Magnus Kangas appointed as a new director of Ortviken paper mill in Sweden.

 

Holton comes to Toscotec with over 30 years of Tissue Industry experience and will assist Toscotec’s growing customer base in North America. Holton is a 30 Year TAPPI Member active at the Committee Level and past presenter and contributor to Tissue World Exhibitions in both the U.S. and Europe.

 

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Gain insight into sustainable solutions to some of the most urgent challenges facing the industry today at IBBC 2018.

 

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