In honor of World Environment Day, Cintas Corporation announced that it diverted more than 17 million 16.9-ounce plastic bottles from landfills in 2012 through the production of its EcoGeneration line. This represents a 13 percent ...
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Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso has opened the new €285m containerboard machine at Ostroleka mill in Poland. The mill consists of a pulp and paper mill, a corrugated board and boxes mill and a sack mill. The new ...
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Switzerland-based specialty chemicals firm Clariant has unveiled a new perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)-free grease resistant additive, 'Cartaguard KHI' for safer food papers and board. The additive supports the trend toward eco-friendly ...
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Swiss speciality chemicals company Clariant has introduced a new perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)-free grease resistant additive, 'Cartaguard KHI' for safer food papers and board. The additive makes paper grease resistant without releasing ...
UPM has completed the sale of assets and part of the Stracel paper mill site land to Blue Paper, the joint venture company of VPK Packaging Group and Klingele Papierwerke. According to the Finnish paper company, Blue Paper, which will ...
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Packaging and paper products manufacturer Boise has announced plans to invest $111m in the conversion of the company’s newsprint machine at DeRidder Paper Mill in the US. The reconfiguration of the former newsprint machine will ...
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Spanish paper and packaging company Saica has announced the opening of its £300m PM11 recycled paper mill in Partington near Manchester, UK. The mill, which is part of a £0.5bn investment by the company in the UK, is expected ...
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The fire started last Wednesday (17 April) at Smurfit Kappa's recovered fibre yard in Nechells. In a press statement published today (22 April), West Midlands Fire Service said: "Fire crews continued to work hard over the weekend and as ...
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A major fire ripped through Smurfit Kappa’s paper mill on Wednesday night (17 April). Some 9,000 tonnes of cardboard bales were well alight [nearly a quarter of its stock supply], covering seven acres of a 22-acre site. West ...
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West Midlands Fire Service said more than 15 fire engines were at the Smurfit Kappa plant, a mill that packaging papers, in Nechells. About 100 firefighters remain at the scene of the blaze in Mount Street, which broke out shortly after ...
· Profit after tax before significant items of $322.0 million, up 5.7%; · The translation impact from the higher Australian dollar on profit after tax and before significant items was negative $20 million. On ...
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Australian Paper will start construction of its new $90 million paper recycling plant at Maryvale in Victoria later this month. “Last week's ground-breaking ceremony marks the first stage of construction and Australian Paper ...
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Underperforming open industrial waste water treatment lagoons are on the way out after more than a century, as industry counts the cost of their pollution, odours, leakage, energy wastage and relative inefficiency in fixing the problems ...
Tags: Underperforming Waste Lagoons, The Environmental Risk Management
Thai paper-maker Double A has acquired a pulp and paper mill facility in northern France from the French government agency, Eure. Double A has bought the properties and assets needed to re-start paper activities for an amount of Euro15 ...
Amcor Australasia, a division of Amcor, has announced the opening of a new $500m recycled paper machine B9 at its Botany Paper Mill in New South Wales, Australia. The company's ninth machine to operate at the site, B9 produces more than ...