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Enstra Paper Commissions Voith for New Stock Preparation Line and Comprehensive Rebuild of PM 6 in Springs, South Africa

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - Member
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Enstra Paper, member of the Corruseal Group and one of the largest producers of recycled containerboard grades in South Africa, has engaged Voith to rebuild its PM 6 for packaging paper in Springs, close to Johannesburg, in South Africa.
 
Asia Symbol Brings in ABB to Provide Manufacturing Execution System at Three Tissue Mills in China
As Asia Symbol Group, one of the biggest wood pulp producers in China, expands its pulp and paper business into tissue manufacturing, it has selected long-term strategic partner ABB to deliver the ABB Ability™ Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and system integration at three of its tissue mills in China.
 
ABB Upgrades Paper Machine Drive Control System at Jujo Thermal Mill in Finland
ABB has upgraded a paper machine drive control system at Jujo Thermal's mill in Kauttua, Finland. ABB's scope of delivery included the provision and commissioning of the upgrade package for the existing PM2 drive control system and new drives.
 
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From The Experts
Industry CEOs Warn of Dire Economic Consequences from Proposed NAAQS Standards
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Heidi Brock joined leaders of over 70 other trade groups representing diverse businesses across the economy in urging the Biden administration to maintain the existing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter (PM2.5).
 
Market Roundup
Canfor Pulp Products Reports Third Quarter 2023 Results
Canfor Pulp Products Inc. on Nov. 2 reported its third quarter of 2023 results.
 
Graphic Packaging Reports Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results
Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK) reported results for the third quarter of 2023.
 
Mitsubishi HiTec Paper to Increase Price for Giroform Carbonless Papers
Mitsubishi HiTec Paper announced that it is increasing the price for its Giroform carbonless papers for orders received from 1 November 2023. Mitsubishi said the rate of increase will be agreed individually, depending on the region and market.
 
Merichem Company
Pulp & Paper
Valmet has Completed the Acquisition of Körber’s Business Area Tissue
Valmet has completed the acquisition of Körber’s Business Area Tissue, the provider of innovative process technologies and related services for converting tissue jumbo reels into final tissue products. The closing of the transaction follows the agreement that was announced on July 7, 2023.
 
Cellwood Receives Three Orders from India
Cellwood announces that its partnership with RC Machinery has resulted in a new order for a Dispersing unit to Star Paper.
 
Lake Utopia Paper Completes Annual Shutdown
Lake Utopia Paper has successfully completed a seven-day shutdown in Utopia, New Brunswick. The shutdown was required for annual maintenance across the mill and to allow for the final phase of a significant capital improvement project (over $7 million investment) to be completed. The work will continue to ensure the safe and reliable operation of one of Charlotte County’s largest employers.
 
UPG Unified Purchasing Group
Containerboard/Packaging
Mondi’s Entire Portfolio of Kraft Papers for Packaging Certified Compostable
Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, has announced that its entire portfolio of kraft papers for packaging has been certified as home or industrially compostable.
 
Voith and Sun Paper Achieve Early Start-Up of Nanning PM 2 and PM 3 State-of-the-Art Packaging Paper Machine
Recently, Sun Paper's two state-of-the-art packaging paper machines PM 2 and PM 3 were successfully commissioned at the Nanning, China site within one month. PM 3 successfully passed the tests in only three weeks and achieved a record-breaking start-up time of only one hour from stock on wire to the first saleable paper roll.
 
ProGroup to Take Over Sappi Stockstadt Mill; Convert Production to Containerboard
ProGroup announced that an agreement has been signed with Sappi whereby ProGroup will take over Sappi's Stockstadt pulp and paper mill in Germany.
 
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New Products
Innovative Lattice Box Delivers a Ripe Solution to Isle of Wight Tomatoes’ Packaging Problem
Isle of Wight Tomatoes, established in 2007, embodies a rich tradition of farming expertise and a visionary recognition of the island's tomato-growing potential.
 
Peruvian Box Producer Looking to Expand to US Market
A Peruvian polypropylene box manufacturer and supplier, YNG Packaging, who services the local asparagus and avocado industry is looking to expand to the US market. Yela Nestorovic, CEO of YNG Packaging in Peru: “We have capacity to produce more boxes and because it is needed in the US we want to expand to this market.”
 
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Sustainability
Valmet and Metsä Group to Develop a Joint Sustainability Model for Industrial Investment Projects
Valmet and Metsä Group are jointly developing a comprehensive operating model to ensure sustainability in technology and maintenance investments. 
 
Sappi Cloquet Dissolving Pulp Facility Completes the Higg FEM Assessment
Sappi has completed the Higg Facility Environmental Management (FEM) verification audit at its Cloquet mill in Northern Minnesota. The mill is one of the leading dissolving pulp facilities to complete this external verification process.
 
Average Recycled Content of Canadian-Made Paper Packaging is More than 80 Percent
The latest research results from the Paper and Paperboard Packaging Environmental Council (PPEC) show the success of the paper packaging circular economy and continue to confirm that the feedstock used for the production of boxboard and containerboard in Canada is made of primarily recycled content fibres.
 
Keit Spectrometers
ABB Inc.
People
Metsä Spring Hires Textile Fibre Industry Expert Kishore Shouche to Strengthen the Kuura Development Team
Metsä Group’s innovation company, Metsä Spring, is supporting the Kuura textile fibre project at the demo plant in Äänekoski by hiring a new Technology Manager, Kishore Shouche.
 
Ilim Group Appoints Aleksei Lomko as Chief Executive Officer
Ilim Group's Board of Directors has appointed Aleksei Lomko as Chief Executive Officer of JSC Ilim Group effective from October 30, 2023. Lomko replaces Ilim's former CEO, Kseniia Sosnina, who stepped down in mid-July 2023 due to the expiration of her employment contract.
 
Tomi Sederholm Appointed Senior Vice President at UPM
Tomi Sederholm has been appointed as Senior Vice President, UPM Business Control and Finance Operations as of 1 December 2023. He reports to Tapio Korpeinen, Chief Financial Officer, UPM, and he is based in Helsinki, Finland.
 
TAPPI Career Wire
Supervising Test Engineer
BRC
San Antonio, Texas
 
Transportation Engineer - Traffic Engineering
City of Savannah
Savannah, Georgia
 
Civil Project Manager
Frankfurt-Short-Bruza Assoc
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
 
Traffic Engineering Specialist I – Senior, DOQ
Manatee County
Bradenton, Florida
 
Postdoctoral Research - Epigenetics and Single-cell Multiomics
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
 
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TAPPI's Yankee Dryer Safety and Reliability Committee Meeting 2023: Advancing Industry Excellence
In less than a week, Yankee Dryer professionals will gather in Neenah, Wisconsin for in-depth safety discussions.
 
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Augury Named TAPPI Journal Research Ambassador
New program helps organizations showcase their commitment to industry innovation
 
Over a Dozen Kraft Recovery Experts Assembling for Your Training in January
Bring your questions, network and learn at TAPPI’s Kraft Recovery Operations Course.