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Text no.: 010 Issue PP44/2001 Publication date: 31.10.2001
Paper industry
registers steady growth
Record paper and board production in CEPI member states
The year 2000 was characterised by steady growth for the member states of the Brussels-based Confederation of
European Paper Industries (CEPI).
The Confederation’s annual statistics reveal... more
Text no.: 004 Issue PP44/2001 Publication date: 31.10.2001
Commission prohibits
Lenzing’s sale to CVC
The European Commission has decided to prohibit the planned acquisition by CVC Capital Partners Ltd. of the majority of
Austrian Lenzing AG’s shares on the grounds of non-compatibility with existing competition laws. Lenzing AG’s Board of... more
Text no.: 005 Issue PP44/2001 Publication date: 31.10.2001
Stora Enso is waiting
for an upturn in profits
Although having shown signs of a slight recovery in the third quarter, Stora Enso’s profits for the first nine months of the
year were considerably lower than in the year before. In total, the group generated a net profit of EUR651.8m in the... more
Text no.: 002 Issue PP44/2001 Publication date: 31.10.2001
Oji Paper starts up
new board machine
Japanese Oji Paper Co Ltd. and German Voith Paper have reported the successful start-up of Oji Paper’s new board
machine at the Fuji mill. After a short optimisation phase, commercial production was started in October 2001, the two
companies... more
Text no.: 012 Issue PP44/2001 Publication date: 31.10.2001
North American forest
products industry results
Third quarter 9 months
million US$ Sales Net profit (loss) Sales Net profit (loss)
* million Can. dollars 2001 2000 2001 2000 2001... more
Text no.: 013 Issue PP44/2001 Publication date: 31.10.2001
Waste paper futures
(Contracts of 100 t)
Closing prices in EUR per ton Supermarket waste Deinking (A9)
at the futures exchange (kaufhaus, A4)
Hanover, Germany 29 October 2001 22 October 2001... more
Text no.: 018 Issue PP44/2001 Publication date: 31.10.2001
EUWID Price
Watch - Germany
October 2001 September 2001 Oct. 2000
Pulp / metr. t cif b
Bleached softwood sulphate
from Scandinavia and Canada 450 - 480 $... more
Text no.: 001 Issue PP44/2001 Publication date: 31.10.2001
IP plans to close
Erie facility next year
International Paper plans to close down its pulp and paper production facility in Erie in Pennsylvania, USA, in the
foreseeable future. The factory has proved unprofitable and is therefore to be closed in the process of general
rationalisation... more
Text no.: 011 Issue PP44/2001 Publication date: 31.10.2001
Have pulp prices
bottomed out in October?
Prices for waste-based containerboard continue to be under pressure
Many producers in mid-October were in good spirits after the announcement of the notable drop in Norscan stocks.
However, the euphoria has meanwhile given way to the daily... more
Text no.: 009 Issue PP44/2001 Publication date: 31.10.2001
News in brief
In March 2000, the Finnish group UPM Kymmene Corporation awarded German Voith Paper an order for the rebuild of
the paper machine (PM 1) and the coating machine (CM 1) at its Kaukas mill, and now the Finnish company has decided
on Voith Paper as... more