Iggesund to increase capacity and axe jobs

VPK ceased production of woodfree uncoated paper at its Alizay plant in France as of 10 March. As planned, from early July it wants to start rebuilding its paper machine to produce recycled corrugated case material. The production of corrugated case material is expected to start in the first quarter of next year. Prior...

Canada’s Canfor Pulp Products Inc. will extend the ongoing production curtailment at its Taylor Pulp mill for at least another six weeks. The BCTMP (bleached chemi-thermo mechanical pulp) mill would not resume normal operations before mid-May, because of “ongoing transportation shortages that have resulted in continued...

Commissioning of the new pulp line at Arauco’s mill in Southern Chile has run into further delays and will not take place in March. Arauco expects that its entire MAPA project will be not be concluded before the end of April 2022. At the end of January construction and installation tasks were reportedly completed to...