Spanish firm SAICA has acquired Stirling Fibre Group, the UK-based independent provider of waste management solutions. The acquisition is expected to boost expansion of SAICA's Natur business in the UK. The latest acquisition is a part ...
Tags: waste management solutions, Cutts Recycling, Recycled Paper
The global packaging giant posted its results for the year ended 30 June 2012 this morning (21 August). It said that it had achieved record profit after tax of $634.9m, up 11.3%, compared to the same period last year. It also announced ...
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The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) has strongly condemned the Federal Government for slashing $7 million available for redundant workers in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Industry to secure alternative ...
Built on a green field site adjacent to its existing paper mill, the new paper mill, based in Rosslyn, is one of Nampak's largest capital projects to date, according to the firm. According to the firm, the objective of the expansion is to ...
Tags: paper mill, Nampak Group, recycling, packaging, corrugated boxes
August was a tough month for Minnesota’s timber industry. The Verso paper mill in Sartell and the Georgia-Pacific hardboard plant in Duluth both shut down permanently, putting 400 people out of work. The plant closings were among the ...
Tags: market view, timber
It's been a good summer for sawmills in northeastern Ontario — and that has some thinking optimistically about the forest industry for the first time in years. More Americans are building houses this summer, bumping up lumber prices. ...
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KapStone Kraft Paper Mill in Charleston, South Carolina and part of the KapStone Paper and Packaging has selected conceptClassifier from Concept Searching for SharePoint to improve issues surrounding findability and search. Concept ...
Tags: Kraft paper, packaging, printing
MONTREAL - Forest products company Tembec is exiting the hardwood flooring business as it shutters a 108-year operation in Huntsville, Ont., and sells another facility in Toronto to a private company for $13 million. The Montreal-based ...
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There were signs Tuesday that the crisis in the province's pulp mill industry is beginning to affect sawmills and private woodlot owners. Taylor Lumber Company Ltd., a Middle Musquodoboit company employing more than 100 people, has said it ...
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