Wood pulp and paper maker Sappi has completed the sale of its Cape Kraft Mill in Cape Town, South Africa to the Golden Era Group. The move comes on the heels of Enstra Mill's sale earlier this month. The sale of Cape Kraft Mill and ...
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New Zealand and Australian milk exports are expected to rise following the end of China's one-child policy, writes IndustryEdge MD Tim Woods. There are expectations of six million additional births in China per year, from 2017, for at ...
Weyerhaeuser is exploring strategic alternatives for its cellulose fibers business that produces liquid packaging board, absorbent pulp and papergrade pulp. The company is considering various alternatives such as sale or spin-off of the ...
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Valmet is to supply a CompactCooking G2 pulp cooking system to Siam Cellulose's pulp mill in Ban Pong, Thailand. Siam Cellulose already operates two CompactCooking plants at its mills in the country. The 2-vessel continuous cooking ...
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In the midst of this digital age, it's all too easy to overlook the paper which is still deeply embedded into our daily lives. Yet there was a time when these simple sheets also represented massive technological breakthrough. The modern ...
Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, developed and launched a new Corshield alkyd system designed to provide resistance and lasting color for severe corrosive environments. The new Corshield ...
According to the statistics of the General Administration of Customs, the total import and export value reached US$1.22254 trillion, with a decrease of 7.6% year on year, among which the export totaled US$690.16 billion, up 1.6% and the ...
Thermoformed packaging provider Fabri-Kal is to open a new $50m production plant in Burley, Idaho, the US. The addition of 100,000ft2 facility will expand the company's presence in plastics thermoforming. The new plant will manufacture ...
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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 ...
Valmet will supply a CompactCooking G2 pulp cooking system to bleached paperboard and pulp company Clearwater Paper's mill in Lewiston, in the US state of Idaho. The supply is in line with Clearwater Paper's $160m upgrade project to ...
Innovia Films' NatureFlex flexible packaging film has been chosen by South African company KiddieKix to pack its cereals and dried fruit snacks. NatureFlex speciality packaging films are made from renewable resources such as wood-pulp ...
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Tri-Star Packaging has added a new eco-friendly oval bowl to its portfolio for food-to-go operators. The new Oval Eco Street Bowl is made from a fully compostable sugar cane pulp, unbleached bagasse to present food-to-go options such as ...
German fine chocolate producer Vivani, which is an arm of EcoFinia, has selected NatureFlex films, developed by Innovia Films, to wrap its iChoc bars. iChoc, stated to be the latest range of Vegan Chocolate, was launched at BioFach and ...
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Valmet will provide a complete OptiConcept M containerboard output line, to Lee & Man in Jiang Xi, China. Scheduled to come on stream between October and December 2016, the machine is designed to produce high-quality containerboard ...
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South Africa-based wood pulp and paper maker Sappi has sold its Cape Kraft recycled packaging paper mill to Golden Era Group. The development comes a fortnight after Sappi inked a pact to sell its Enstra Mill recycled containerboard and ...
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