Monthly Archives: July 2021

Andritz to supply tissue machine to ST Paper in Minnesota, USA

Andritz has received an order from ST Paper to supply a new tissue machine for its recently acquired site in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. Start-up is planned for the end of 2022. The ANDRITZ tissue machine of the type PrimeLineTM W 2000 has a design speed of 2,000 m/min and a working width of 5.65 m […]

Segezha Group launches pellet production facility in Sokol

Segezha Group, a leading Russian vertically integrated holding company in the forest industry performing a full cycle of operations from logging to advanced wood processing (MOEX: SGZH) and part of Sistema PJSFC, is continuing the construction of a pellet production facility to turn by-products and wood waste into biofuel pellets at its Sokol Woodworking Plant. […]

UPM Raflatac has completed employee consultation processes

UPM Raflatac announced in October 2020 its plans to simplify its organisation and increase efficiency in operations and distribution. All related employee consultation processes in various European countries have now been completed. As a result, the number of positions at UPM Raflatac will decrease by 129. UPM Raflatac provides support for employees who are affected […]

Sappi Europe announces further price increases for Sublimation & Inkjet grades

Sappi Europe announces a price increase for Transjet, Basejet and Inkjet grades by 8-12 % valid for deliveries from 1 September 2021. The unprecedented and ongoing rise of raw material costs, particularly pulp, chemicals and energy in combination with extremely high freight rates makes price adjustments unavoidable. Sappi’s sales team will be in contact with […]

Holmen Paper’s Hallsta mill is the biggest PulpEye user in the world

Holmen’s paper mill in Hallstavik, Sweden, has received its fifth PulpEye online pulp analyzer which makes the mill the biggest PulpEye user in the world. The first one came in 2006 and the fifth has just arrived at the mill.   The Hallsta Paper Mill, a part of Holmen Paper business area, is located about […]

Andritz to supply major pulp production technologies for world’s largest DP pulp mill

Andritz is supplying major energy-efficient and environmentally friendly pulp production technologies and key process equipment for Bracell’s Project “STAR” in the city of Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo state, Brazil. The mill features two flexible, environmentally friendly hardwood fiberlines for a capacity of 2.6 – 2.8 million tons/year of bleached kraft pulp or 1.5 million tons/year […]

Andritz to upgrade world’s largest BCTMP system

International technology Group Andritz has received an order from Shandong Huatai Paper Industry Shareholding to upgrade an existing BCTMP (bleached chemi-thermo-mechanical pulp) plant to become the world’s largest mechanical pulping line for P&W (Printing & Writing) paper production at the mill in Dongying, Shandong province, China. Start-up is scheduled for the 4Q 2022.   The […]

BioPappel, Mexico continues to order Dryer Fabric Cleaners from ProJet

ProJet received an order for 2 Power Cleaners (dryer fabric cleaners) from BioPappel. Mexico for their Veracruz mill, for their Paper Machine # 1. The order was received in July 2021 and the value of the order will not be disclosed. Delivery will be in Q4 of 2021. The order is already the 5th from […]

Beaver Paper installs largest robotic arm in the US

Beaver Paper Group, a leading manufacturer of sublimation media and cut and sew papers is pleased to announce the addition of one of the largest, state-of-the-art Robotic Arm and Precision Perforator to their newly remodeled production division.   The Dalmec Robotic Arm Manipulator will allow the operators to pick up and move large-scale paper rolls […]

Sappi taps Toscotec for TT SYD Steel Yankee Dryer

Toscotec has received an order from Sappi to supply a TT SYD Steel Yankee Dryer to their mill in Stanger, South Africa. The TT SYD was delivered in record time only 20 weeks after the order. The start-up is planned for the third quarter of 2021. The cylinder was shipped off from Toscotec’s fully integrated and innovative TT […]