Kyoto Group announces that it has signed a term sheet for delivering a Heatcube to one of Germany’s major paper and packaging manufacturers—Klingele. The designated site for installing a first Heatcube is at Klingele’s facility in Werne, a corrugated board plant in Germany. Klingele Paper and Packaging Group, a global manufacturer with 13 corrugated board […]
Tag Archives: CO2 emissions
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Dec
Dec
DS Smith, a leading provider of sustainable, fiber-based packaging worldwide, recently completed the installation of new steam recycling technology that will reduce energy consumption by 20% in its Columbia, S.C. corrugated packaging facility. This investment is part of DS Smith’s ambitious sustainability commitments to its North American customers. The new multi-million-dollar Baviera Steam Systems technology […]
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Nov
Nov
At the end of October, Voith successfully started up Asia Symbol’s BM 13 at Rugao, 180 km north of Shanghai, China. The state-of-the-art machine is 8.16 m wide with a design speed of 1,400 m/min and an annual capacity of around one million tons. It mainly produces high-quality white folding boxboard in the basis weight […]
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Nov
Nov
Andritz will supply a methanol liquefaction plant to Japanese unbleached kraft pulp producer Hyogo Pulp Industries Ltd. The plant will be installed at the Tanigawa mill to replace fossil-based support fuel with renewable liquid methanol, a by-product of the chemical recovery process. This is the first plant of its kind in the Japanese pulp industry. […]
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Oct
Oct
According to the goal of Metsä Tissue, part of Metsä Group, to develop its Future Mill-concept, the company will aim to have fossil free mill fleet by 2030 and accordingly it has stopped using coal as an energy source in its Kreuzau’s mill. Since September 2023 the Kreuzau mill has been replacing the use of […]
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Oct
Oct
PA Consulting (PA), the company bringing ingenuity to life, and PulPac, the Swedish R&D and IP company behind Dry Molded Fiber, announce that global consumer health company Haleon has joined its Blister Pack Collective as a founding member. PA and PulPac created the Blister Pack Collective to limit the use of non-recyclable plastics in over-the-counter […]
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Oct
Oct
Smurfit Kappa has inaugurated a pioneering purification and wastewater treatment plant in Belgrade, Serbia, the first of its kind in the country. The state-of-the-art plant is located on the site of Smurfit Kappa’s Belgrade paper mill, which was acquired in 2019. The Group’s €5 million investment in the plant enables it to purify water to […]
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Oct
Oct
The Iberpapel Group has informed the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) that yesterday, September 28, it signed the definitive agreement for the sale of the forestry assets in Uruguay on a total of 11,280 hectares. Through this 57 million dollar transaction, the company has disposed of 40% of its forestry assets. Iberpapel is investing […]
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Sep
Sep
Jarkko L. Mattila, and Roger Ekstrom, Global Product Managers, ABB System Drives explain why liquid-cooled drives are the ideal solution for challenging pulp and paper environments. The pulp and paper industry has long used variable speed drives (VSDs) to achieve greater energy efficiency and precise motor control. However, some places within a mill present challenges […]
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Velvet Care to halve tissue factory’s carbon footprint with PLN 63 million heat and power plant
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Aug
Aug
Velvet CARE, the consumer tissue producer owned by ESG transformation specialist private equity fund Abris Capital Partners, will slash its CO2 emissions by 46% with an investment of PLN 63 million ($15 million) in a gas-fired combined heat and power plant (CHP). Central Europe’s fastest-growing consumer tissue maker will build the cogeneration unit at its […]