Strikes at Holmen Paper Madrid

Stora Enso will close down one paper machine at the Anjala site and consolidate book paper production on one PM, as announced. The company now finalised talks on the closure and announced the number of redundancies....

Metsä Fibre is to build a demonstration plant for the production of a modified lignin product in cooperation with Andritz. Metsä Group said it wants to promote other uses besides bioenergy production and produce high-performance biodispersants in the new plant. A final investment decision would be made later this year....

British DS Smith group has commissioned technology provider Voith to rebuild the PM 4 at the company’s Viana site in northern Portugal. The rebuild will increase production capacity from 400,000 tpy to 428,000 tpy of kraftliner with a machine design speed of 1,100 m/min, according to Voith. The start-up of the project...