Norske Skog Bruck announces successful commercial orders of the containerboard grades Testliner 3 and Fluting. This represents the introduction of 210,000 tonnes of competitive containerboard capacity to meet the growing demand for renewable and re-usable packaging. The production is based 100% on recycled fiber and will use steam from the waste-to-energy plant, which opened in April […]
Tag Archives: publication paper
03
Feb
Feb
Norske Skog Skogn will invest around NOK 180 million ($18.2 million), after NOK 40-50 million ($4-5 million) in grant funding from the NOx fund, in a new thermomechanical production line (TMP) that will replace expensive recycled paper with fresh fiber. The new TMP line will reduce variable costs, significantly reduce NOx and fossil CO2 emissions, and […]
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Jun
Jun
The mill’s assets will be sold in the second half of this year Norske Skog to close the Tasman mill in New Zealand and sell the mill’s assets. Production will cease by 30 June 2021, reducing Norske Skog’s newsprint capacity by approximately 150,000 tonnes per annum. The Tasman mill has only produced very limited volumes during […]
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Apr
Apr
Norske Skog’s board of directors has made the final investment decision to convert one machine at the Bruck (Austria) industrial site from newsprint to recycled containerboard production. This is the first major step of the two planned European conversion projects in the group’s strategy of establishing Norske Skog as a leading independent European producer of […]
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Apr
Apr
Burgo Group is set to increase prices for its entire range of fine and publication papers on the European market. The decision was motivated by the ongoing production cost increases, especially pulp, energy and chemicals, Burgo said. The company is asking for a 15 percent price hike for coated mechanical papers (LWC, MWC) for […]
27
Feb
Feb
SCA permanently closed paper machine LWC 4 at the Ortviken paper mill. This marked the end of SCA’s entire publication paper production. SCA started publication paper production at Ortviken in 1958. Since then, the mill had grown into one of the world’s largest publication paper production sites with an annual production capacity of 800,000 t. Structural […]
03
Feb
Feb
Market players believe that the latest price development will accelerate industry restructuring and lead to more capacity closures for newsprint and magazine paper. Newsprint and magazine paper prices reached hit rock bottom at the start of 2021: The latest price round for deliveries as of January 2021 resulted in historically low prices on the markets […]
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Jan
Jan
Another two paper machines are to be shut down in the next two months. As announced in August last year, SCA has started to close down output capacity for publication paper at its Ortviken mill in Sundsvall, Sweden. The company said PM 5 at the mill was stopped on 20 January, producing its last roll […]
20
Jan
Jan
With just a few exceptions, all price negotiations on the French newsprint and magazine paper market had been put to bed in France in the second week of January. The knock-on effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the European publication paper markets are clearly illustrated by prices negotiated in the latest round of talks in […]
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Dec
Dec
Shrinking markets are putting pressure on newsprint and magazine paper prices in the UK. The weakness of the pound sterling is additionally burdening suppliers. Prices for publication paper and woodfree paper on the British market continue to trend lower as these markets suffer from a steep drop in consumption amidst the upheaval of this pandemic […]
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