DS Smith acquiring Ecopack and Ecopaper in Romania

DS Smith has installed a new wastewater recycling system at its Bulgarian mill in Trakia. The company informs that the new system will reduce its freshwater consumption by 400,000 litres per day. The project was reportedly relatively low-cost and installing the new system took just 2 weeks. The Trakia mill already had...

Producers’ hopes that demand for recycled corrugated case material would pick up at the end of the first quarter have not been fulfilled. Paper companies therefore continue to curtail their production. There is still significant price pressure as a result and further downward price corrections were reported for March....

There are no signs of a rebound in demand for recycled corrugated case material in Germany. Prices on the German market have therefore declined again in March....