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Kemira increases prices for all product lines in EMEA with immediate effect

Kemira will increase prices for all product lines in both of its segments in EMEA region effective immediately. Costs for electricity and natural gas have rapidly increased and add to the general inflationary trends of the recent months. Therefore the commercial conditions need to be adjusted accordingly. The price increases will be substantial and vary by […]

Sawlog and pulpwood prices in Sweden increased in Q2 2022

The roundwood prices on delivery timber increased for both sawlog and pulpwood in Sweden during the second quarter of 2022 in comparison to the first quarter of 2022,  according to the Swedish Forest Agency. The sawlog price increased by 3 percent and pulpwood by almost 9 percent.   Regionally, the greatest increase in sawlog prices was […]

Russian food producers ask government to help avoid paper, cardboard shortages

Industry proposal As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to impact on the country’s economy, Russian food industry players have requested the country’s authorities to approve new standards for food packaging which would reduce the required sizes of labels, and increase the sizes of packaging for particular products.   The proposed changes are designed to help food […]

Mondi Frantschach invests €20 million in sustainable pulp production

Mondi is investing €20 million to further improve the sustainability of its pulp production at the Frantschach mill in Austria. The mill, which is celebrating its 140th anniversary in 2021, has already been self-sufficient in terms of energy for many years and supplies surrounding communities and industrial companies with surplus heat from the pulp production […]

Kemira increases prices of polymers

Kemira, a global chemicals company, announces price increases for all polymers globally to Industry & Water, Pulp & Paper, and Oil & Gas businesses. As global demand continues to rebound post-Covid, the supply of key raw materials remains heavily constrained. The supply-demand balance is significantly increasing the cost of raw materials, logistics, packaging, and utilities. […]

Voith announces necessary price adjustments for the paper industry

Voith announced that it has to make price adjustments in the paper industry. One of the many impacts of the global pandemic is the enormous cost increases in many industrial sectors, such as raw materials, packaging and transport. Prices will increase between 2.8 percent and 4.2 percent in the product areas of paper machine clothing, […]

Bong to hike prices for its packaging products

Bong has decided to increase its prices to the market as a result of the continued increase in raw material prices. The majority of Bong’s price increases will come into effect during 3Q 2021 and will be on both Envelope and Light packaging products.   The reason behind this is that most of Bong’s raw […]

Felix Schoeller Group increasing prices 1st June 2021

Felix Schoeller Group is continuing to see steep increases in the costs for our main raw materials, freight, energy, packaging and various other products used in the manufacture of our papers. ”These cost escalations have outpaced our recent price adjustments and force us to implement another round of price increases”, the group writes in a […]

Sappi continues recovery in results for second financial quarter 2021

Commenting on the group’s results, Sappi Chief Executive Officer Steve Binnie said: “I am pleased with the steady recovery from the ongoing challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. EBITDA continued to improve quarter-on-quarter from a low of US$26m in our third quarter of 2020 through US$98m in the previous quarter to US$112 for the current quarter, […]