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Marubeni, Angara in talks to build $3.58 billion plant in Russia

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August 05, 2012 Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp is in talks with Angara Paper to build one of the world’s largest paper pulp plants in Russia, the Nikkei reported. The plant is valued at about 280 billion yen ($3.58 billion), the business daily reported. If the negotiations are successful, Marubeni......

Catalyst Paper to close its recycled newsprint mill in Snowflake, Arizona

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August 1, 2012 Catalyst Paper announced the permanent closure of its Snowflake recycle mill located in northeastern Arizona (USA) and its subsidiary the Apache Railway Company. The operations currently employ 308 salaried and hourly workers. The operation is scheduled to shut production on September 30, 2012. Catalyst implemented a number......

Sequana Announces Plans to Close Three Arjowiggins Paper Mills

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September 14, 2012 Pantin, France-based Sequana, which owns Arjowiggins and Antalis, announced plans to close three Arjowiggins paper mills: Dalum Papir A/S mill in Denmark (graphic papers), the Ivybridge mill in the UK (papers used for security documents, creative papers) and the Witcel mill in Argentina (creative papers). Arjowiggins produces......

Ilim Group Investing Over $580 Million in Modernization Projects

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September 7, 2012 Ilim Group is investing this year more than USD 580 million to complete modernizing and expanding their mills. This was announced by Ilim Group CEO Paul Herbert at the media briefing held at the APEC CEO Summit in Vladivostok. “By the fifth anniversary of our joint venture......

Mondi to Acquire Duropack's Containerboard Mill, Box Plants

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September 14, 2012 Mondi Group said that it has signed an agreement with Duropack GmbH for the acquisition of Duropack’s operations in Germany and the Czech Republic for EUR 125 million in cash. The deal includes a corrugated box plant – Duropack Wellpappe in Ansbach, Germany; and a recycled containerboard......

Fibria to Sell 100,000 Hectares of Forestlands in Brazil to CMPC

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September 10, 2012 Fibria said that it has received and accepted a binding offer from CMPC Celulose Riograndense S.A. for the purchase of forestry assets and lands located in the State of Rio Grande do Sul (“Losango”), Brazil consisting of approximately 100,000 hectares of owned areas and nearly 39,000 hectares......

UPM finalises the sale of its closed Albbruck paper mill

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August 14, 2012 UPM has completed the sale of its closed Papierfabrik Albbruck GmbH to the German Karl Group. UPM permanently ceased graphic paper production at the mill situated in Baden-Württemberg, Germany in January 2012. The Karl Group, experienced in developing industrial sites, is planning to establish new businesses on......
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China is steaming ahead with High Yield Pulping, Success story of Chinese paper and board industry with the use of Mechanical Pulping, What can Asia learn from this?

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Peter Bräuer, Johann Großalber, Heinrich Münster, Xiuli Zhang, Rao Narayana Nagalla Over the past 5-6 years, China has doubled its paper production to almost 100 million t/a and is now the world’s leading producer. In the same period, however, the production of mechanical pulp has more than trippled, despite of......