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Text no.: 005 Issue PP36/2006 Publication date: 06.09.2006
Cascades Tissue buys
the assets of Newstech
Cascades Tissue Group has taken over the assets of Newstech MD, LP located in Hagerstown/Maryland. Built in 1995
and idle since 1997, the production facility for deinking includes two lines with a capacity of 400 t per day. The
high-quality... more 
Text no.: 015 Issue PP36/2006 Publication date: 06.09.2006
Pro-Gest is modernising
its Trient facility’s PM 2
The Italian manufacturer of kraftliner and fluting Pro-Gest S.p.A. is investing in the modernisation of its PM 2 at its Villa
Lagarina facility in North Italy. Voith Paper reports that the company, describing itself as one of Italy’s leading... more
Text no.: 003 Issue PP35/2006 Publication date: 30.08.2006
Romania: Ambro modernises
brown stock washing facility
Romanian pulp and paper mill Ambro S.A. has ordered an upgrade of its brown stock washing facility and process control
systems from Metso Paper. The order value is estimated at around €5m. Work on the brown stock washing facility at the
Suceava... more
Text no.: 009 Issue PP35/2006 Publication date: 30.08.2006
Holmen approves investment
at Iggesunds Bruk mill
Iggesund Paperboard AB will completely rebuild the lime kiln of the pulp facility at Iggesunds Bruk and upgrade the facility
with a new tall oil digester. According to the company, the board of directors of Holmen AB granted a sum of around... more
Text no.: 002 Issue PP35/2006 Publication date: 30.08.2006
North American fine paper industry
sees a new market leader emerge
Domtar and Weyerhaeuser’s fine paper operations are to be merged
US Weyerhaeuser Company’s fine paper business and Canadian Domtar Inc. plan to merge. According to Domtar and
Weyerhaeuser, the merger will create the world’s second-largest... more
Text no.: 005 Issue PP35/2006 Publication date: 30.08.2006
Georgia-Pacific to build
new tissue machine in Oregon
Georgia-Pacific Corp. is to expand its Wauna/Oregon mill with a new TAD (Through-Air-Dried) tissue machine. The
installation of the new machine is part of the recently announced investments which are intended to strengthen
Georgia-Pacific’s... more
Text no.: 013 Issue PP35/2006 Publication date: 30.08.2006
Construction of UPM Kymi
recovery line proceeds
The construction work on the new chemical recovery plant at UPM’s Kymi mill site in Kuusankoski, Finland, is in full swing
and is scheduled to be completed by 2008. The company will spend €325m on building the new recovery system. The
rebuild... more
Text no.: 017 Issue PP35/2006 Publication date: 30.08.2006
New market prices for NBSK and rising
tension in the hardwood pulp segment
Consumption of pulp consumers in Europe registered an increase in July
The pulp market remains in flux. After several North American NBSK manufacturers announced price hikes of $20 to
$730/metr.t for Europe, the USA and parts of Asia to take... more
Text no.: 007 Issue PP35/2006 Publication date: 30.08.2006
Mayr-Melnhof boasts best
ever half-year results
For the first six months of 2006 the Austrian Mayr-Melnhof group recorded the best half-year results in its history to date.
Lively demand for the products of both the cartonboard division (MM Karton) and the folding carton division (MM
Packaging)... more
Text no.: 010 Issue PP35/2006 Publication date: 30.08.2006
Mercer posts improved
second quarter results
Business results of Mercer International Inc. in the second quarter of 2006 were better than in the same period last year
despite extensive production downtimes and a rise in fibre costs in the German pulp mills, which negatively offset the rise... more
