The world’s largest machine for the production of kraftliner has entered service in Obbola in Västerbotten, outside Umeå, eastern Sweden. With a total investment of SEK 7.5 billion, this major project has been completed ahead of schedule and within budget, significantly increasing opportunities to produce packaging materials that replace plastic. “At full capacity, the machine […]
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By 2025, the share of Ilim Group’s board supplies to the southwest of the People’s Republic of China will have increased three-fold from 5% to 16%, which is another 100 thousand tons of the finished products. Stepped-up deliveries will make the Company a key player on the pulp and paper market in the south-western China. […]
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Altri Group achieved its best year ever during 2022 in terms of total revenues, EBITDA as well as pulp produced in several industrial units of the Group. Benefiting from a favorable evolution of pulp prices, total revenues reached € 1,066.2 M in 2022, a 34.4% increase vs 2021. During the 4Q22, Altri Group recorded total […]
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Twin Rivers Paper Company, a leading producer of specialty and kraft paper products, announced that it has finalized the sale of Plaster Rock Lumber Corporation, its softwood lumber mill in Plaster Rock, New Brunswick, to eastern Canadian lumber manufacturer and North American forest products leader Groupe Lebel. The sale advances Twin Rivers’ strategy of investing […]
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MM Board & Paper, Austria, has successfully re-started its KM3 board machine at the Frohnleiten mill after ANDRITZ completed a major rebuild. The rebuild included several upgrade measures to improve the machine’s performance in line with the customer’s targets. Mag. Gernot Schleiss, Managing Director of MM Frohnleiten, explains: “The main objective of our investment was […]
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TreeToTextile, owned by H&M Group, Inter IKEA Group, Stora Enso, and LSCS Invest, invested €35 million in constructing a textile fiber process technology demonstration plant in Sweden. AFRY supported TreeToTextile throughout the project in the development and implementation phases from 2016-2022. The demonstration plant is now in the start-up phase. TreeToTextile is offering a new […]
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Vaisala launches a pioneering optical inline process refractometer series for industrial liquid measurements
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The new robust platform of inline process refractometers adds to Vaisala’s leading-edge innovations by introducing the first fully inhouse developed refractometer series to product platform that combines both liquid and gas measurement capabilities. Vaisala, a global leader in weather, environmental, and industrial measurements continue to strengthen its spearheading industrial product ecosystem by unveiling a next-generation […]
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GreenFirst Forest Products Inc. announced that it has completed the previously announced sale of its La Sarre and Béarn sawmills, Abitibi and Témiscamingue forestry operations, as well as their related assets and business operations to Chantiers Chibougamau Ltée, for a total purchase price of approximately $94 million, subject to final adjustments. “We thank Chantiers Chibougamau […]
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ProJet received an order for a Wet End Tail Cutter for the new Tissue line at XuanMai, PM4, China. The Tail Cutter will be incorporated in a new Tissue machine. The order was included in ProJet’s first quarter 2023 orders received. The Tail Cutter will be incorporated in XuanMai’s new Tissue machine. The order was […]
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Ahlstrom has today launched a consultation process with employee representatives at its Stenay plant in France about the possibility to divest the plant, and if a buyer cannot be found considering closure. Stenay plant produces one-side coated specialty papers for specific uses in the packaging sector where there is overcapacity in Europe and competition with […]