Such new and important investment confirms the aim of ABK Group to strengthen its presence worldwide with the capability to offer to its customers even more qualified and high technology equipment especially to the tissue market in addition to already mastered equipment that ABK offers to the paper and board producers.

The highly qualified personnel of ex-Over Meccanica S.p.A. now employed by ABK Italia S.p.A. is a key of success as it brings a wealth of knowledge and longstanding experience that will efficiently sustain the growth of the company worldwide.

ABK Italia S.p.A. also immediately benefits not only from streamlined and highly automated machining facilities, but also from a most modern and perfectly equipped foundry which renders the company entirely independent from third parties for the casting of all parts especially drying cylinders and big size Yankees.

Holding all these aces, ABK Group will be in a position to manufacture machines and equipment for the production of all grades of paper, from tissue and writing-printing paper to newsprint and packaging grades as well as fine paper and specialty papers, making use of great workshop capacity and an unquestionable technical know-how reinforced by the technology and the experience developed over 50 years of history by Over Meccanica.

The pulp produced will be used primarily for board grades; however, the line provides also the possibility to produce printing and writing grades in the future. The line capacity is 700 t/d.

Fabco Inc. has been manufacturing and servicing filtration components for the pulp and paper industry for over 30 years. The filtration solutions are offered for different parts of the paper mill; woodyard, pulp mill, paper machine, and waste water treatment. Some of the key manufactured products are disc filter sectors, drum filter covers, belt press belts, sector covers, vibrating & polishing filter screens and recausticizing products.

The first batches of hexasulphonated OBAs from the new reactors at Prat, installed in July 2011, are currently being delivered to customers. It marks the first OBA consignment to be produced in Spain as part of a transfer of Clariant’s OBA production from Muttenz, Switzerland.

Clariant is on-track to complete transfer of OBAs, colorants and chemicals for the paper market to Spain by the end of 2011. The move is part of Clariant’s on-going focus on sustainable growth, and commitment to continuous improvement for its operations.

Metso’s delivery will include a complete coated board machine from headbox to winders, including stock preparation and approach flow systems, hoods with machine ventilation and coating color preparation systems. Additionally, the full-scope automation delivery will include process, machine and quality controls, web break monitoring and web inspection as well condition monitoring.

International Paper & Sun Cartonboard Co., Ltd. is a joint venture co-established by International Paper and Sun Paper Group. The joint venture combines International Paper’s management and technology experience with Sun Paper Group’s local resources and in-depth understanding of local market. The combined capacity of its three machines is 850,000 t/y and the net sales in 2010 were about EUR 530 million.

“We have had a lot of positive feedback from both visitors and exhibitors”, says Patrik Löwstedt, Exhibition Manager and Vice President of Adforum, organiser of China Paper/China Forest. “The show was well attended and according to exhibitors a lot of valuable relationships were formed”, Löwstedt continues.

The China Paper Technical Conference, co-organised with CTAPI (the China Technical Association for Paper Industry), attracted 230 delegates, amongst others high level government and embassy officials, association managers, as well as senior executives from leading pulp and paper corporations.

The equipment to be supplied, together with Metso’s experience and know-how of this type of special pulp, will enable Sappi to produce high-quality chemical cellulose pulp for the growing market. The new fiberline will produce around 215,000 air dried tonnes chemical cellulose hardwood pulp per year. In addition to the cooking plant and fiberline which will be new, Metso will also supply equipment for the upgrade of wood handling, evaporation and recausticizing as well as a new ash leaching system.

Sappi is today the world’s largest producer of chemical cellulose with a production capacity of approx. 815,000 air dried tonnes per year from the Saiccor mill. The Ngodwana mill located in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa will convert all of its market pulp production to chemical cellulose.

Metso’s delivery will comprise a complete tissue production line with stock preparation equipment and an Advantage DCT 200+ tissue machine including an OptiFlo II TIS headbox, a Metso Yankee cylinder, an Advantage AirCap hood, an Advantage WetDust dust management system and an Advantage SoftReel reel.

The delivery will also contain an extensive Metso automation package including a Metso DNA process automation system for machine, process and drive controls as well as a Metso IQ quality control system.

With a width of 5.6 m, the new production line will produce 50,000-60,000 tons a year of high-quality facial, toilet and towel grades. The raw material for the new line will be virgin & DIP pulp.

CMPC Tissue S.A. is part of the larger pulp and paper group Empresas CMPC, and is a leading tissue products supplier in Latin America with industrial operations in 8 countries of that region.

With a large width and an operating speed of 1,900 m/min, the new production line will produce 70,000 tons a year of high-quality facial, toilet and towel grades. The raw material for the new line will be virgin pulp.

Industrie Cartarie Tronchetti is headquartered in Lucca, Italy, and operates mills in Italy, Spain and Poland with a combined capacity of 400,000 tons a year, has a turnover of more than EUR 500 million and around 1,200 employees.

Stora Enso has completed the acquisition of 51% of the Chinese packaging company Inpac International as announced on 27 October 2010. The enterprise value of the company is EUR 80 million. Stora Enso will also purchase the production plant site and buildings at Qian’an in northern China for approximately EUR 13 million.

Following the acquisition, the new Inpac business unit will be reported as part of Stora Enso’s Industrial Packaging segment results from the third quarter of 2011 onwards.