International Paper (IP) will exit from Chinese coated board joint venture (JV) by selling its 55% stake to JV partner Shandong Sun Holding for $23m. The IP-Sun JV operates one manufacturing facility with four paper machines in Shandong ...
Feldmuehle Uetersen, a paper mill located northwest of Hamburg, will present products from its Board Solutions, Liner Options, Labelling Applications and Flexible Packaging segments at the FachPack 2015 trade fair. Since July 2015, ...
Belgium-based packaging company VPK Packaging group has made its first acquisition in Ireland with an agreement to acquire 100% shares of corrugated board box manufacturer ICS Europaks for an undisclosed amount. Based in Galvone ...
Austria-based Brigl and Bergmeister have entered into a contract with Voith to deliver a SpeedSizer applicator unit and a contactless dryer for the Niklasdorf PM 3. The equipments will help the company increase its quality and speed of ...
Tags: contactless dryer, Agriculture
Illinois-based KapStone Paper and Packaging will spend about $115m at its Cooper River site to modernise three papermaking machines and to make other improvements for increasing the capacity and efficiency. In a statement released on ...
Tags: papermaking machines, Agriculture
Italian paper machinery manufacturer Toscotec will supply a tissue production line to Taiwan-based paper manufacturing company Yuen Foong Yu (YFY). The machine will be installed at the company's mill located in Qingshui District in ...
Tags: Toscotec, Yuen Foong Yu, Packaging
Cascades, a Canada-based firm that produces paper from recycled fibers, will close its Kraft paper manufacturing plant in the East Angus, Québec, effecting around 175 employees. The decision to close the plant, which will be ...
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Cascades, a Canada-based firm that produces paper from recycled fibers, will close its Kraft paper manufacturing plant in the East Angus, Québec, effecting around 175 employees. The decision to close the plant, which will be ...
Tags: Cascades, Kraft paper, Packaging
Voith Paper, a division of Voith Group, has delivered three paper machines to China-based Sun Paper. The two medium-sized packaging paper machines PM 31 and the PM 32 with a wire width of 7.3m will be installed at the Sun Paper's facility ...
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RockTenn has entered into an agreement with Simpson Lumber to acquire the latter's Tacoma Kraft paper mill in Tacoma, Washington, for around $343m. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory ...
Tags: Paper Mill, Packaging
BASF is implementing a series of measures in its paper chemicals business to further strengthen the competitiveness of its Performance Products segment. In response to decreasing market demand BASF is adjusting capacities in its European ...
YFY Paper, a subsidiary of Taiwan-based Yuen Foong Yu Paper Manufacturing, has sucessfully started operation of paper-making machine PM 3 supplied by Voith in Yangzhou, China. Built with energy-efficient technology, the equipment can ...
Tags: YFY Paper, Paper-Making Machine
There is new recycled containerboard capacity scheduled to come on stream at the end of 2013. Blue Paper, a joint venture between VPK and Klingele Papierwerke (Germany), is in the final stages of converting a fine paper machine (from UPM ...
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The Western and Eastern European market is finding recycled containerboard in increasingly tight supply: The sun has been shining in much of Europe and demand is up…helping to bring the Eurozone out of a long recession. Testliner ...
Containerboard price rises are like buses…nothing for ages and then three come along in quick succession. If you're sat there scoffing at the seemingly incredulous prospect of three rounds of price rises this year, I'm afraid that ...
Tags: Recycled Containerboard, Packaging, Printing