SCA signs new credit, secures loan for Östrand expansion

After a major fire started at Mercer’s pulp mill in Stendal in Germany last Friday, production has not yet been resumed. In the morning of 1 July, the fire broke out in the conveyor systems between chippers and chip piles for a reason unknown to date, before it then spread to the entire conveyor line and one pile....

The underlying mood on world pulp markets remains negative and Europe is no exception in this regard. “Our customers are not calling their ordered volumes off as contracted,” a producer told EUWID. This statement meanwhile also applies to the tissue industry which, in the first quarter, still took in significantly...

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....