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 ...
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This is in addition to its existing 50% stake in Italmaceri, which it bought as part of the acquisition of SCA Packaging in 2012. Italmaceri is the second largest recycling company in Italy, handling in excess of 500,000 tonnes of ...
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WASHINGTON – In a settlement with the United States, Minnesota Power, an ALLETE company based in Duluth, has agreed to install pollution control technology and meet stringent emission rates to reduce harmful air pollution from the ...
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South African paper and packaging firm Mondi has completed the previously announced acquisition of bags and kraft paper business from Graphic Packaging's subsidiary Graphic Packaging International for around $105m. As part of the deal, ...
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US-based Minerals Technologies (MTI) has signed an agreement with Zhejiang Zhengda Paper Group to build a satellite precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) plant in Zhejiang Province, China. Expected to be operational in the fourth quarter ...
South Africa-based paper and packaging firm Mondi has signed an agreement with Graphic Packaging subsidiary Graphic Packaging International to acquire its bags and kraft paper business, for around $105m. As part of the deal, Mondi will ...
Tags: Bags, Graphic Packaging
Some companies have proven they can reinvent themselves, remaining current and agile despite supply chain disruptions. This is the case of Nokia Corp, a Finnish company founded in 1865 as a paper mill. The company’s evolution offers a ...
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UK-based packaging firm DS Smith is set to invest in new machinery at its facility in Louth, East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. Around 14 jobs are expected to be affected with the new investment, according to the company. ...
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 ...
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Renewable and recyclable materials provider UPM is set to shut down its paper mill located at Docelles in France. For closing the Docelles mill,the company had already completed employee information and consultation negotiations,and also ...
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Minerals Technologies has signed an agreement with UPM-Kymmene Corporation to build a satellite precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) plant in Changshu, China. To be located in Jiangsu province on site at UPM's paper mill, the new ...
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The gap between Kraft and Testliner prices had grown and hence a narrowing made sense. Foreign Kraft producers found the UK market increasingly attractive…which raised supply. There has been a further switch out of Kraft into the less ...
As one of Emerson's beta test sites, Kimberly Clark's Loudon, TN paper mill was one of the first plants to test-drive the recently released CSI 2140 Machinery Health Analyzer. After several weeks of using the new portable vibration ...
Tags: vibration, analyzer, technician, confidence
Sweden-based packaging manufacturer SCA has introduced new sustainable packaging products which will be produced at its Ortviken paper mill. The new products are claimed to offer better printability. Sustainable Packaging product has ...
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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