ITC PSPD is the largest buying outfit among ITC’s various divisions, with over Rs. 1600 crores per annum of buying inputs and services. PSPD deals with best of the manufacturers globally and have over 5000 vendors supplying pulp, chemicals, process... (Continue reading)
Stora Enso plans to build plantation-based integrated board and pulp mills at Beihai city in Guangxi, southern China. The mill site will initially include a 450,000 tons per year paperboard machine and pulp capacity of 900,000 tonnes per year, including... (Continue reading)
After the recovery in 2010 following the previous financial downturn, the indications are that paper and board production by the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) member countries fell in 2011 by close to 2% as the momentum of the... (Continue reading)
HCL Technologies Ltd. and UPM have signed a five year outsourcing frame agreement of IT infrastructure services. As part of this agreement, HCL will provide data center, end user support, network services and professional IT services to UPM. HCL will also... (Continue reading)
Toscotec said that it has been awarded an order to supply eight new tissue machines to Vinda, a branded seller and leading manufacturer of tissue paper products in China and Hong Kong. The value of the order was not disclosed. Toscotec’s... (Continue reading)
International Paper Company announced that it has completed its acquisition of Temple-Inland Inc. through the merger of its wholly owned subsidiary Metal Acquisition Inc. with and into Temple-Inland. Temple-Inland is now a wholly owned subsidiary of International Paper. Including... (Continue reading)
Metso has inaugurated its new facilities in Brazil on March 8, 2012. The new facilities, incorporating a machinery production and services unit and an administrative office, are situated in Araucária, a metropolitan area of Curitiba, in the state of... (Continue reading)
Tetra Pak announced the start-up of its second production line in the company’s Hohhot, China pack-aging material plant. The new world-class line will increase production capacity at the plant by 10 billion cartons per year to a total of 20... (Continue reading)
The Metso-supplied containerboard production line, PM 3, for Ji’An Group Co., Ltd. successfully came on stream at the end of November 2011 and the line’s curtain coating process was started up on January 4, 2012. The new PM 3 was... (Continue reading)
After a two-year effort and a row of tenders, a contract with the company Dentas Ambalaj, Turkey was signed. New stock preparation line (270 t/day) and a current second-hand paper machine completion with a performance increase to 218 t/day are... (Continue reading)