Text no.: 011 Issue PP34/2003 Publication date: 20.08.2003

Police search

headquarters of Ilim Pulp

At the beginning of August the Russian police searched the headquarters of the Russian forestry group Ilim Pulp Enterprise (IPE) in St. Petersburg. The raid was to reveal the means and implements purportedly used to falsify an official letter,... more

Text no.: 002 Issue PP34/2003 Publication date: 20.08.2003

Appleton Coated to

expand capacity

U.S. Appleton Coated LLC at the end of July announced plans to invest $40m in the expansion of its Combined Locks plant which started operations in 1997 following an investment of $440m. In 2000, the plant’s PM 6 was rebuilt for a total of $25m... more

Text no.: 031 Issue PP34/2003 Publication date: 20.08.2003

Pulpex futures for NBSK

Settlement prices in US$/metr. ton, a.d., TCF/ECF 18 August 2003 11 August 2003 21 July 2003 September 2003 474.00 482.00 448.00 December 2003 485.00 492.00 462.00... more

Text no.: 010 Issue PP34/2003 Publication date: 20.08.2003

Heated discussion

about Baikalsk

For some time Russian Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill has been attacked by environmental activists. Recently, however, the World Bank provided a loan totalling $22.4m to Baikalsk ZBK with the help of which a closed water cycle system is to be... more

Text no.: 025 Issue PP34/2003 Publication date: 20.08.2003

Spanish paper industry achieves

renewed rise in output

Ratio of output to consumption offers further growth potential In 2002 the Spanish paper and pulp industry again succeeded in surpassing the production figures it achieved the year before. As the statistical year-end report published by the... more

Text no.: 023 Issue PP34/2003 Publication date: 20.08.2003

Canada: pulp industry

not affected by wildfires

According to a spokeswoman for the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), the forest fires in the Canadian province of British Columbia have so far not caused any major damage to pulp and paper mills. It still remains to be seen to what... more

Text no.: 004 Issue PP34/2003 Publication date: 20.08.2003

Graphic Packaging and

Riverwood complete merger

On 8 August Graphic Packaging Corporation, based in Marietta in the federal state Georgia, emerged from the merger of the two US American packaging groups Riverwood Holding, Inc. and Graphic Packaging International Corporation. On the previous day... more

Text no.: 028 Issue PP34/2003 Publication date: 20.08.2003

Pulp market is

set to bottom out

Spot prices tend to go up – Demand from Asia has been rising The signs of a recovering pulp market are multiplying. In the last few weeks the level of demand from Asia has gradually risen, particularly from China. Observers report that Russian... more

Text no.: 015 Issue PP34/2003 Publication date: 20.08.2003

Kaukas pulp mill

resumes normal operation

After problems with the waste water treatment plant in June and early July, the Kaukas pulp mill belonging to the Finnish group UPM-Kymmene Corporation has since resumed normal operation. UPM-Kymmene reported that when the pulp mill was put back... more

Text no.: 016 Issue PP34/2003 Publication date: 20.08.2003

ENCE doubles ist

half-year net profit

In the first half of the current business year Spanish pulp group Grupo Empresarial ENCE, S.A. almost doubled the net profit it had achieved in the first six months of the previous year. In its provisional half-year report the group records a net... more