Tag Archives: carton

Voith to rebuild PM 4 at DS Smith mill in Portugal

DS Smith has commissioned Voith to rebuild its PM 4 at the company’s Viana site in Northern Portugal. Producing around of 400,000 tons of kraftliner and high-performance top kraftliner per year, the mill is a market leader in Southern Europe. The extensive rebuild will increase production and improve overall efficiency. Production will expand to around […]

Suzano to Reduce Production of Market Pulp in 2023 by Four Percent

Suzano on June 2 said it expects to reduce its production volume of market pulp by approximately 4% throughout the year when compared to its nominal production capacity and historical volumes. Suzano said its decision is based on the fact that this volume production would not bring adequate returns for the company during a more […]

Elopak to build new manufacturing plant in US

Elopak has announced that it will build a new plant in the USA to better serve its customers in the Americas and accelerate growth in the region. Elopak will invest around $50 million (including lease liability) in the new plant over the period 2023 – 2024. The investment will be financed by utilizing Elopak’s existing Revolving […]

Valmet to deliver key pulp mill technology to Shandong Huatai Paper’s new pulp mill in China

Valmet will deliver key pulp mill technology to Shandong Huatai Paper’s new pulp mill in the Shandong province in China. Valmet’s delivery includes cooking and fiberline, a recovery boiler, a lime kiln and a lime mud filter. The new pulp mill will produce 700,000 tonnes per year and is scheduled to start up at the […]

Domtar celebrating the Kingsport Mill grand reopening

Domtar executives and employees joined state and local dignitaries for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Kingsport Mill grand reopening celebration. The event marked the completion of the mill’s conversion into our first 100 percent recycled containerboard facility. The two-year project transformed the mill’s uncoated freesheet paper machine into the second-largest 100 percent-recycled containerboard machine in […]

Kemira achieves EcoVadis Platinum level for the third consecutive year

Kemira has once again achieved the Platinum level rating for its sustainability performance by EcoVadis, the global sustainability rating platform, for the third consecutive year. Kemira remains among the top 1% of companies rated worldwide, with a score increase of 2 points to 80/100 (compared to 78/100 in 2022) due to its progress in sustainable […]

E-commerce packaging offers theft protection for valuable lightweights through tamper protection

Clothing and underwear are among the booming groups of goods in e-commerce. The corresponding shipping packaging must take various factors into account and therefore place high demands on its design. The experts for corrugated board packaging at Südwestkarton GmbH & Co. KG (a company of the Panther Group) meet the diverse challenges with individual, high-performance […]

Tomas Jozonis was elected as the new general director of Grigeo

Tomas Jozonis was elected as the new general director of Grigeo. He has been working in the group of companies since 2013, is a member of the board of the company and other companies in the group. Having started his career at AB Grigeo as a purchasing manager, Tomas Jozonis has held various management positions […]

Russian packaging sector facing with the deepest crisis in its modern history

The Russian packaging sector is facing with the deepest crisis in its modern history, as the ongoing military conflict between Ukraine and Russia and unprecedented sanctions, imposed on the country have resulted in the massive exodus of global packaging producers from the local market and posed a threat of the shortage of packaging in the […]

Silbo upgrades all its pallet wrapping to paper with Mondi

Mondi, a global leader in sustainable packaging and paper, has collaborated with Silbo to upgrade its pallet wrapping from plastic stretch film to Mondi’s kraft paper Advantage StretchWrap. Silbo has installed the first EW Technology PaperWrap machine at its plant in Zory, Poland and provides more sustainable flexible packaging for its broad range of customers, […]