Yearly Archives: 2016
BillerudKorsnäs Launches Full Scale Tests Adding Microfibrillated Cellulose to Its Paperboard
(Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 8, 2016) After promising initial tests, BillerudKorsnäs is now moving ahead with full scale trials adding microfibrillated cellulose, MFC, to its paperboard products. The initiative is made possible through a new cooperation with Norwegian biorefinery pioneer Borregaard.
Recent development has allowed for industrial scale extraction of the components of cellulosic fibres in wood, the fibrils. For a paper and board maker, adding microfibrillated cellulose, MFC, in the production process opens up opportunities for new functionality and for Read More...
Kemira Increases Prices of Polymer Products in Europe
(Helsinki, Finland, Dec. 8, 2016) Kemira on Dec. 1 announced a price increase for its polymer product line across all European countries. The adjustment will be effective January 1, 2017 or as customer contracts allow.
The increase will be an average of 5%, depending on the specific customer segment and applications, and can differ for specific product types in selected geographies. This adjustment is necessary due to overall increased production and supply costs, Kemira said.
Kemira is a global chemicals company Read More...
Belarusian Bellesbumprom’s export to non-CIS states 5.6% up in January-October
(Minsk, Russia, 12 December 2016) Enterprises run by the Belarusian timber, woodworking, pulp and paper industry concern Bellesbumprom exported 5.6% more merchandise to non-CIS states in January-October 2016, Bellesbumprom’s press service told BelTA. According to the source, Bellesbumprom enterprises exported $102.4 million worth of merchandise to non-CIS states in January-October 2016, up 5.6% from January-October 2015. The enterprises exported about 20 kinds of products made by the woodworking industry and the pulp and paper industry. The export of plywood Read More...
Rayonier Advanced Materials and Borregaard gain approvals for $135 million LignoTech JV
(USA, Dec. 9, 2016) Borregaard ASA and Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. announced today the companies have secured the necessary approvals from their Boards of Directors and the appropriate permits to proceed with the investment for construction of a new lignin facility at RYAM’s Fernandina Beach site in Florida. The venture, named LignoTech Florida (LTF), will serve the growing global demand for natural lignin-based products.
Lignin, a natural component of wood, is a co-product of RYAM’s sulphite cellulose manufacturing process. The Read More...
U.S. Market for Boxes Used in E-Commerce to Grow 10% Annually Through 2020
(Cleveland, USA, Dec. 7, 2016) Demand for boxes for e-commerce packaging is forecast to advance more than 10 percent per year to $1.1 billion in 2020, driven by continued robust growth for online retail sales, which will spur concomitant opportunities for boxes needed to ship products. These and other trends are presented in Retail E-Commerce Packaging Market in the US, a new study from The Freedonia Group, a Cleveland-based industry research firm.
In 2015, boxes accounted for 28 percent of Read More...
Valmet to supply automation technology to Nepa Limited in India
(Helsinki, Finland, Dec. 7, 2016) Valmet announced that it will deliver automation technology to Nepa Limited in India for its two refurbished paper machines and new deinking plant.
According to Valmet, the new automation system will enable the paper mill to increase productivity and improve product quality.
Typically, the order value of this kind of automation system deliveries is below EUR one million, Valmet added.
Valmet’s delivery includes a mill-wide Valmet DNA automation system to control the two paper machines, PM 1 Read More...
DS Smith Acquires P&I Displays and Packaging in Portugal
(London, UK, Dec. 7, 2016) DS Smith on Dec. 2 said that it has acquired P&I Displays and Packaging (“P&I”) in Portugal. The company specializes in display products and services for in-store marketing.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
P&I employs about 120 people.
In a press release, DS Smith said, “P&I is focused on FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) customers and builds on our capability within both the Iberian markets and the display sector, following our recent acquisitions of Creo in Read More...
U.S. ITC Extends Existing Duties on Coated Freesheet Paper Imports from China and Indonesia
(Washington DC, USA, Dec 6, 2016) Verso Corporation, Sappi North America and Appleton Coated LLC, together with the United Steelworkers (USW), today welcomed the extension of duties on imports of certain coated paper from China and Indonesia as an important step to ensure continuing fair market conditions for the domestic market.
The decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to continue existing duties resulted from a petition filed under a so-called “sunset review”. Under existing law, remedial tariffs that Read More...
Link: Stora Enso not concerned by slowing Chinese growth; Beihai packaging mill set to reach full production of 450,000 tonnes 18-24 months; 220,000 tonnes BCTMP line up & running
(Stockholm, Sweden, Nov 17, 2016) Finnish pulp, paper and board maker Stora Enso expects to sign its first orders for food packaging boards from a new mill in China shortly and is not concerned by slowing Chinese growth, its chief executive told Reuters. …
Chief Executive Karl-Henrik Sundstrom said he was confident the new 800-million euro ($855 million) consumer board factory in Beihai, China would reach full production of 450,000 tonnes in 18-24 months from its start-up in May as Read More...
Nippon Paper Crecia and Kasuga Paper Industry form tissue production joint venture in Japan
(Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 6, 2016) Nippon Paper Group announced that Nippon Paper Crecia Co., Ltd. and Kasuga Paper Industry Co., Ltd. today concluded a basic agreement to jointly establish a new company in April 2017 that will produce paper tissue and towel products in Japan.
Nippon Paper Crecia will hold an 80% stake in the JV, while Kasuga Paper Industry will hold 20%.
The joint venture will install a new tissue machine with an annual production capacity of 36,000 tonnes at Read More...
Total European shipments of graphic papers in September 2016 down 4.3% vs Sept. 2015
(Brussels, Dec. 5, 2016) EURO-GRAPH, the European Association of Graphic Paper Producers, published its September 2016 statistics of the European Graphic Papers Industry, which showed total shipments of graphic papers in September were 2,904,000 tonnes, down 4.3% or 132,000 tonnes, versus September of 2015.
Graphic Paper grades include: Newsprint, SC-Magazine, Coated Mechanical Reels, Uncoated Mechanical Reels, Coated Woodfree and Uncoated Woodfree.
In September, total European shipments of Newsprint were 651,000 tonnes compared to 680,000 tonnes in September of 2015, a decrease Read More...
Nippon Paper Industries reviews the production structure of glassine paper
(Tokyo, Japan, December 06, 2016) Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. decided to review the production structure of glassine paper and achieve a more efficient production structure, as part of the restructuring initiatives, on the basis of the contraction of the domestic paper market.
Currently the Nippon Paper Group produces glassine paper at two mills, namely the Company’s Fuji Mill and Harada Mill of Nippon Paper Papylia Co., Ltd., a specialty paper company of the Group. The company decided to consolidate Read More...
Toscotec to rebuild PM1 tissue machine at Correll Tissue in Durban, South Africa
(Italy, 06 6 December, 2016) Toscotec has been awarded a contract to rebuild PM1 at Correll Tissue, in Durban, South Africa. The start-up of the rebuilt machine is scheduled for the second half of 2017, as the company says in the press release received by AsiaPaperMarkets.com.
Correll Tissue is the primary tissue paper manufacturing plant of Novus Holdings, one of the most technologically advanced print manufacturing operations in Africa. The plant, located in Phoenix Industrial Park, harnesses the potential of Read More...
Van Houtum enters into joint venture with Noble Environmental Technologies to establish new production line at its Swalmen tissue paper mill in the Netherlands
(Swalmen, The Netherlands, Nov. 9, 2016) A new production line at our paper mill in Swalmen where new products will be made in the future. That is the goal of the joint venture we have entered into with Noble Environmental Technologies. Noble has developed a unique, clean technology for producing ECOR panels. Van Houtum’s managing director Bas Gehlen: “If everything goes as planned, we will start to manufacture a completely new range of different products alongside our innovative washroom Read More...
Italy’s Recard develops new Easy Crescent tissue machine
(Lucca, Italy, Dec. 6, 2016) Listening to customers’ needs allows creating tailor-made machines, but it also spurs us to innovate and to develop new technologies. To meet the demands of the global market, in the last few years Recard has increasingly focused on developing projects to install tissue machines simply and economically.
This is how the Easy Crescent was born: a machine fruit of the natural progress, in terms of technological innovation, of the experience that Recard has acquired in Read More...