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 ...
Kruger Packaging will invest C$250m ($188.6m) to convert the newsprint machine at its Trois-Rivières mill in Canada to produce lightweight linerboard. The project is being backed by a C$190m ($143.3m) funding from the ...
Tags: Kruger Packaging, linerboard, containerboard
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 ...
Tags: board machine, winder
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 ...
Tags: paper maker, wood pulp, Sappi, packaging material
The US Paper and Packaging Board (P+PB) has undertaken The Paper & Packaging – How Life Unfolds campaign to address the decline of paper usage and drum up support for packaging. With an investment of $20m, the campaign will fund ...
Tags: Paper, paper Packaging, paper box
Metso is supplying valves for packaging company Stora Enso's Varkaus Mill fine paper machine conversion to light-weight containerboard in Finland. The company will deliver Neles ball valves, V-port segment valves and triple eccentric ...
Tags: Metso, Paper Mill
The European economy is forecast to grow by circa 1.2% this year, given fresh impetus by the €60 billion a month of quantitative easing recently initiated by the ECB. This has caused a significant depreciation of the euro; we’ll ...
Global packaging company Smurfit Kappa has opened a Bag-in-Box plant in Spain for about €28m that produces both taps and bags under one roof. Also, the plant showcases the world's latest performing features in Bag-in-Box ...
Tags: Bag-in-Box plant, taps, 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
Irish paper-based packaging producer Smurfit Kappa has agreed to acquire corrugated packaging manufacturer Bates Container for an initial investment of $150m. Bates makes corrugated packaging and provides its services to the Texas region. ...
A deferred payment of around $7.5m (4.6m) is to be made at a later date to Bates, which employs 320 people and has a 135,000 tonnes of containerboard requirement. The deal, which will be funded from Smurfit Kappa’s cash reserves, is ...
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Finland-based pulp, paper and energy industry service suppliers Valmet will supply a paper machine to US-based Pratt Industries, which will use the recovered paper to produce recycled linerboard and corrugated medium. The machine ...
Tags: Valmet, Pratt Industries, Packaging
The results, for the three months and six months ending 30 June 2014, revealed robust capital structure with annualised cash interest reduced to €135m Additionally, interim dividend increased by 50% to 15.375 cent, which SKG said ...
Tags: Smurfit Kappa, SKG, Packaging
Industrial packaging products and services provider Greif has announced plans to expand its Southeastern packaging sheet feeder operation in Concord, North Carolina, US. The expansion will see the addition of a second advanced corrugator ...
Tags: Greif, sheet feeder, Packaging
Austria-based Andritz has signed an agreement with Spanish recycling specialist Alucha to supply new technologies and equipment for pyrolysis of rejects (waste) produced in the processing of liquid packaging board for paper production. ...
Tags: Andritz, pyrolysis of rejects, Packaging