ABB Launches Next Generation Weight xP Actuators

adminMarch 20, 2012

March 20, 2012

ABB recently introduced the new Weight xP extended profiling actuators. These actuators help customers to achieve the lowest possible Cross Direction variability and to reduce cost. The new Weight xP actuators help papermakers meet even the most exacting product specifications. With robust design, proven components and unique technologies, Weight xP......

Sodra to invest USD 300 million for 2012

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March 20, 2012

Sodra’s executive committee has set an appropriation limit which will permit a number of offensive investments in 2012. The decision was taken at a meeting held on 7 December 2011. “In addition to earlier decisions concerning our participation in the development of wind power in 2012, we have now decided......

SCA divests its packaging operations

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March 20, 2012

SCA’s packaging operations – excluding the two kraftliner mills in Sweden – are divested to DS Smith. The purchase price amounts to EUR 1.7 bn on a debt free basis. “The reason for the divestment is primarily to enable increased growth in the hygiene business”, says Jan Johansson, President and......

Voith to Supply 60,000 TPA tissue line

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March 20, 2012

SCA Hygiene Products GmbH has commissioned Voith Paper with the supply of a tissue machine in Central Europe. The new TM 5 line will be installed at the Kostheim site near Mainz, Germany, and delivered in a comprehensive Process Line Package design. Beside the TM 5 with its 18-feet Yankee......

Toscotec acquired Milltech

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March 20, 2012

Toscotec has purchased Milltech, the Lucca-based supplier of advanced solutions for drying to the paper industry. Toscotec CEO Alessandro Mennucci announced the acquisition Milltech’s entire shareholding from Faper Group. “The fact that Milltech’s success lies not only in drying, but also in energy saving, was a crucial factor in our......

Saica starts up 400,000 TPA containerboard line in the UK

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March 20, 2012

The Metso-supplied complete containerboard production line, PM 11, for Saica Containerboard UK Ltd., successfully came on stream on January 15, 2012 at Partington, near Manchester in the United Kingdom. The record-breaking start-up speed was 1,105 m/min with a basis weight of 95 g/m2. Three days later, on January 18, the......

UPM to close down the Albbruck paper mill

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March 20, 2012

UPM will permanently close down the unprofitable Albbruck paper mill in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. The discussions between UPM, the employee representatives and local authorities did not lead to a solution for continuing the operations at the mill. Neither was the search for an investor successful. The closure of the mill is......

Zhanjiang Chenming Pulp & Paper, China starts up 600,000 TPA Uncoated Paper Machine

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March 20, 2012

The Metso-supplied fine paper production line, PM 1, of Zhanjiang Chenming Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. came successfully on stream on September 1, 2011 at the company’s greenfield pulp and paper mill in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, China. The 11.15-m-wide PM 1 has an annual dimensional production capacity of close......

M-real divests the Reflex mill's Premium Paper business

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March 20, 2012

M-real Corporation, part of Metsaliitto Group, has agreed to divest the Reflex mill’s Premium Paper business to Walzmuhle AG that is owned by Hahnemuhle FineArt GmbH, the Hahnemuhle management and private shareholders of Hahnemuhle. The divestment includes the complete Premium Paper business and related assets as well as approximately 100......

Russian Syassky Pulp & Paper Mill Started Up A New Toscotec Line

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March 20, 2012

Syassky Pulp and Paper Mill, based in Syasstroy St. Petersburg region, Russia, on January 27 has started up a new Toscotec AHEAD 1.5M tissue line. Syassky PPM, one of the oldest and important pulp and paper mill in the URSS period, was founded in 1928, with the unique aim to......