The Venezuelan government announced the devaluation of its currency, the bolivar fuerte (VEF), on 8 February. The official exchange rate was changed from VEF 4.3 per US dollar to VEF 6.3 per US dollar. Smurfit Kappa said that as a result ...
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Finnish pulp and paper company Metsa Board is all set to introduce its lightweight cartonboards for perfumes and cosmetics at Packaging of perfumes, Cosmetics & Design (PCD) 2013 event from 6-7 February in Paris. Besides exhibiting its ...
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Finnish pulp and paper company Metsä Board is all set to introduce its lightweight cartonboards for perfumes and cosmetics at Packaging of perfumes, Cosmetics & Design (PCD) 2013 event from 6-7 February in Paris. Besides exhibiting ...
Finnish paper company, UPM has signed an agreement on the sale of assets, part of the land of the UPM Stracel paper mill site with Blue Paper, the joint venture company of VPK Packaging Group and Klingele Papierwerke. According to the ...
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Pulp and paper company International Paper (IP) has announced plans to shutdown its No 2 paper machine and associated equipment permanently at the Augusta, Georgia mill in the US by the end of February 2013. According to the company, the ...
Tags: coated paperboard, Coated Paperboard business, paper company
At the HOW Design Live conference,Neenah Paper introduced for Desktop,a first-of-its-kind cross-platform Adobe Air application created for PCs and Macs that provides users with the most effective way to find,specify,compare and test the ...
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Finnish paper company UPM Raflatac has announced the opening of a new labelstock slitting and distribution terminal in Kiev, Ukraine, which will supply both film and paper label materials to Ukrainian customers. UPM Raflatac area sales ...
Integrated specialty paper company Twin Rivers Paper has announced the release of a new compostable and recyclable paper Acadia Natural, which is made from unbleached pulp and is ideal for food packaging. Acadia Natural is FDA-compliant ...
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We're all so used to jotting down our thoughts,novels or shopping lists on pieces of scrap paper or perfectly bleached white office sheets.Not to mention blowing our noses into disposable tissues.But how much do you know about where paper ...
US-based pulp and paper company International Paper (IP) has reached two agreements to sell three US containerboard mills for $470m in connection with the company's acquisition of Temple-Inland for $3.5bn. According to IP, the move aims ...
Tags: Containerboard Mills, forest products, packaging industries
UPM a Finland-based paper company has announced that the company is set to negotiate with VPK Packaging Group and Klingele Papierwerke for the sale of the assets and part of the land at its French Stracel paper mill. Both the companies ...
Finnish paper company Stora Enso has announced plans to invest EUR1.6bn to build plantation-based integrated board and pulp mill in China, banking on growth in the Asian market. The mill site at Beihai city in Guangxi, for which ...
Twin Rivers Paper has announced the launch of the new wet-strength label papers, Alliance WS AM, formulated to meet the customer requirements for mold-resistant products. According to the US-based integrated specialty paper company, the ...
Tags: Label Papers, wet-strength label papers, mold-resistant products
Finland-based Metso has announced that it will rebuild the white top kraftliner machine at the Pite mill of SCA Packaging Munksund in Sweden, as part of a contract. The line is expected to be fully operational during 2013 and the rebuild is ...
Andrew Price has been appointed as a non-executive director of troubled paper company Paperlinx. Price earlier this year tried to unseat Harry Boon as chairman of Paperlinx, which has been the subject of a far-reaching strategic review ...
Tags: Paperlinx, Andrew Price, paper company