International packaging and paper group Mondi has commenced the operations of its new €70m machine in tětí, Czech Republic, which produces white kraft paper. With a capacity to produce around 155,000t of paper a year, ...
Tags: Paper Machine
Finland-based Valmet will supply two pulp drying lines to Klabin's new plant in Ortigueira in Paraná, Brazil, as part of a supply contract. According to Valmet, the pulp dryer investment is part of Klabin's Puma project, and a ...
Tags: Valmet, Pulp Drying, pulp dryer
Scientists at Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials are turning by-products of wood and wool into biodegradable packaging to help slash global plastic consumption. Dr Nishar Hameed says humans consume more than 100 ...
Tags: Wood pulp, silk fibres
GIA announced the release of a comprehensive global report on Defoamers markets. Global market for Defoamers is forecast to reach $3.9 billion by 2020, driven by resurgence in demand from end-use markets, and stringent environmental ...
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This initiative, which will restore rainforest four times the size of the Lake District, has been developed with input from stakeholders including WWF, Greenpeace and NGO members of APP's Solutions Working Group. The commitment takes the ...
Even a world leader in packaging and PET plastics machinery cannot stop improving its products. Sipa knows that. Last year, it began to wonder if its fillers could fill a wider range of needs: "We decided to look at our existing range of ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, PET plastics machinery
The machine produces over 80,000 tons of high quality, white kraft paper, traded under the name of Staarkraft. Werner Hartmann, managing director of Starkraft, said: "We are pleased that the new paper machine is running very smoothly and ...
Tags: Kraft Paper, Paper, paper machine
Duralar Technologies, a global nanotechnology company and developer of the Duralar family of ultra-hard coatings, has established its U.S. headquarters in the Tucson region of Arizona. The company has leased a 5,000 square-foot building at ...
Tags: Coating, Construction
Canadian railways carried 25.3 million metric tons of freight in January, down 2.7 percent from the same month last year. The drop in shipments occurred despite the strong growth in traffic received from the United States. Non-intermodal ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Canadian Rail Tonnage
PPG Industries announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Hi-Temp Coatings Technology Co., Inc., a privately-owned supplier of high-temperature-resistant and insulative ...
Recyclable plastic packaging that will save more than a million eggs from going to waste each year has been successfully trialed by Tesco. At the moment Tesco's free range eggs are sold in pulp cartons and if an egg breaks in transit it ...
Tags: Recyclable Packaging, Wasted Eggs, packaging
Emerson's FIELDVUE DVC6200 Series digital valve controller has racked up more than 1 billion hours of online use within the process and energy industries since its introduction in 2010. Steve Hagen, FIELDVUE product manager, credited the ...
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Mars, Incorporated announced today a new policy to help build a fully sustainable palm oil supply chain. This sees Mars commit to both industry leading standards and develop a fully traceable pipeline back to known palm oil processing mills ...
Tags: Palm Oil, Mars, Deforestation Policies
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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PPG Industries has completed its previously announced acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Hi-Temp Coatings Technology Co., Inc., a privately-owned supplier of high-temperature-resistant and insulative coatings, based in ...
Tags: High-Heat-Resistant Coatings, PPG