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Text no.: 015 Issue PP37/2017 Publication date: 13.09.2017
Kemira starts up new sodium
chlorate line in Joutseno
Specialty and process chemicals company Kemira has started operations at a new line producing sodium chlorate in Joutseno, Finland. The company said it was already shipping the product to customers, ahead of the original schedule. Kemira... more
Text no.: 016 Issue PP37/2017 Publication date: 13.09.2017
Rottneros and Renfuel sign
biofuels cooperation
Swedish pulp producer Rottneros and the technology and research firm Renfuel plan to cooperate in the field of biofuels. The two companies signed an agreement that will see Rottneros deliver lignin from the Vallvik pulp mill to Renfuel’s... more
Text no.: 017 Issue PP37/2017 Publication date: 13.09.2017
Södra invests in
biomethanol production
Södra is backing non-fossil fuels. The company announced it will invest SEK100m (€10.5m) in a new biomethanol facility. The project will be started in autumn this year and production is scheduled to begin in spring 2019.
The... more
Text no.: 018 Issue PP37/2017 Publication date: 13.09.2017
Kruger to invest in specialty paper production,
reduce newsprint and magazine paper capacity
Canada’s forest products group Kruger Inc. has announced a multi-million investment in specialty paper production, such as flexible packaging paper, label stock and backing paper (release liner) and coated paper for digital inkjet web... more
Text no.: 019 Issue PP37/2017 Publication date: 13.09.2017
Lecta continues to spur red ink
despite higher deliveries and sales revenues
In spite of 3% sales growth compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, Lecta Group did not succeed in bouncing back into the black in the first half of 2017. The contrary is true: the net loss, which amounted to €2.6m in... more
Text no.: 020 Issue PP37/2017 Publication date: 13.09.2017
Sappi’s operating results
almost unchanged
In the third quarter and the first nine months (ended 30 June) of its current business year, Sappi Group’s total operating result stagnated at more or less the same level as the previous year. Under the influence of counteracting factors,... more
Text no.: 021 Issue PP37/2017 Publication date: 13.09.2017
News in brief
Hülsenfabrik Herbster has successfully relocated the production of its Swiss facility in Rothenthurm, which is doing business under the name of Brüggen AG, to its expanded site in Schopfheim, Germany. The core... more
Text no.: 022 Issue PP37/2017 Publication date: 13.09.2017
Graphic Packaging to close
Santa Clara paperboard plant
US packaging group Graphic Packaging International (GPI) plans to shutter its recycled board plant in Santa Clara in the US-state of California. GPI operates one board machine at the plant, which has around 120 employees. Last year, the company... more
Text no.: 023 Issue PP37/2017 Publication date: 13.09.2017
Billerud Korsnäs acquires
minority share in Vericool
Swedish packaging and board manufacturer Billerud Korsnäs is investing in packaging for temperature-sensitive goods and logistics. The group announced that it has acquired a minority share in US packaging company Vericool through its... more
Text no.: 001 Issue PP36/2017 Publication date: 06.09.2017
France: CCM prices continue to climb,
negotiations under way for fine paper
Rising prices continue to shape France’s woodfree paper and corrugated case material markets. The latest mark-ups for recycled corrugated case material took hold at the start of August at the latest, with higher brown kraftliner prices... more