Holmen to build biofuel boiler at UK mill

The raw material and energy shortage which, in conjunction with significantly higher costs, impacted the European economy in the first half of the year barely affected profits of Swedish company Holmen due to the company’s high degree of self-sufficiency in wood and energy. Quite to the contrary, substantial price...

The German market for sack kraft paper in the first quarter of the current year saw receding demand and prices. Producers began the year with unchanged prices but began to reduce them, particularly for brown grades in the course of January, depending on what buyers were already paying....

Corrugated case material prices continued their downward trend in March. Experts hope that prices of recycled grades have already bottomed out or will do so soon....