News in brief: Sun Paper Beihai commissions new CMTP fibre line

Releaf Paper, a start-up founded in Ukraine in 2021 has won the EU Commission’s EIC Accelerator Programme 2022. The winning project that was submitted by the company’s French branch Releaf Paper France SAS consists in the planned construction of a pilot production line for cellulose made from fallen leaves in Ukraine....

Negotiations on contract prices for January on the European pulp market ended in early February with price cuts for key pulp grades amidst weak demand. Demand from many paper producers remains weak with occasional improvement from the very low levels in December and January....

Reports on December price negotiations are quite varied. While some producers say their contracts have already been wrapped up, others were still in the middle of talks even at the end of the first week of the new business year of 2023. An EUWID source talking about the softwood market segment told EUWID: “We did not...