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Ahlström Collective Impact Continues to Support UNICEF’s Education Work

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Thursday, June 29, 2023 - Member
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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.
 
Weekly Spotlight
Voith Opens New OnPerformance.Lab (OPL) in São Paulo
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 Acquires The Standard Group in Louisville, Kentucky
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.
 
Maintenance Shutdown at Klabin’s Monte Alegre Unit
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.
 
Beat the Heat: TL-Series Bearings from NSK.
NSK Americas®
Under the high temperatures and thermal stresses of dryer rolls in paper making machines, conventional bearings can experience cracking damage and fail prematurely. NSK’s Tough and Long Life (TL) Spherical Roller Bearings dramatically increase MTBF and significantly reduce maintenance costs and machine downtime.
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From The Experts
Toscotec Launches E-Learning and Topic-based Training Center
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.
 
Lubrizol, Inc.
Market Roundup
Zeus Announces Acquisition of James Hamilton Group
Zeus Group has announced the acquisition of James Hamilton Group, a leading Northern Irish print and packaging business.
 
Merichem Company
Pulp & Paper
ANDRITZ to Supply an Evaporation Plant to Hyogo Pulp Industries in Japan
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 to Supply Stora Enso Oulu Mill with Sectional Drive Systems
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 to Cease Production of Coated Woodfree Paper at Condat Mill in France
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 Extends ASM Program to Include More Pulp and Paper Specific Software
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.
 
UPG Unified Purchasing Group
Containerboard/Packaging
Stora Enso Chooses ABB’s Sectional Drive Systems for a Packaging Line Conversion in Finland
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.
 
Koenig & Bauer Forms Strong New Partnership With Emballages Mega Packaging
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 Expands De Lier Site with New Corrugated Packaging Production Facility
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.
 
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Hydro-Thermal Corp®
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UPM Biomedicals' FibDex Wound Dressing in Clinical Trials for Superficial Dermal Burns
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.
 
Mondi and Baumit Launch Water-Soluble Bag for Dry Mix Mortar
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.
 
New Award-Winning Refiner InfibraFiner Offers Maximum Throughput and Energy Efficiency
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.
 
DS Smith Introduces Shelf-Ready Packaging DD Wrap
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.
 
Augury Inc
Sustainability
Metsä Board Achieves Platinum Level Sustainability Rating from EcoVadis
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.
 
New Repulping Line for Post-Consumer Beverage Cartons Starts Up in Poland
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 Publishes its Sustainability Report
Paper Excellence Canada has published its third sustainability report: Forward Focused: 2022 Sustainability Report.
 
West Fraser Releases 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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People
Mike MacGregor: My TAPPI Golden Anniversary Service
Mike MacGregor, active TAPPI member for over 50 years shares his appreciation for the organization. 
 
Active Energy Appoints Proven Biomass Energy Innovation Leader as Chief Technology Officer
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 Appoints Petri Rasinmäki as Business Line President, Paper; Jari Vähäpesola to Retire
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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TAPPI Announces 2023 Award Winners for the Corrugated Packaging Division
Individual honors will be presented at CorrExpo 2023 in Cleveland, OH.
 
Biomass Pre-Treatment Increases Conversion Efficiency
Learn why one extrusion technology is particularly well adapted to perform efficient biomass pre-treatment at IBBC 2023.
 
TAPPI is Seeking Nominations for Association-Level Awards
Nominate your colleagues before August 1 for our industry’s highest honors.
 
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Learn to Troubleshoot Quality Problems in Kraft Mill Operations.
Make yourself a more valuable employee and broaden your awareness of how one part of the process affects other operations.