ITC Bhadrachalam, India's largest integrated pulp and paper & paperboard manufacturing facility, has been awarded the FSC Chain of Custody certificate. It is the most widely respected certification for responsible fibre sourcing around the world. This certification provides a unique competitive edge to ITC's finepapers and paperboards in an increasingly environment-conscious world....
Metso will supply a containerboard production line to the Chinese Zhejiang Ji'An Paper Packet Co., Ltd. For their mill in Haiyan county, Jiaxing city, Zhejiang province. The start-up of the production line is scheduled for the second quarter of 2011....
Fraser Papers Inc. announced that, following the extended deadline of January 26, 2010, it had received no additional offers to purchase the Company's specialty papers business under the court supervised sale process (the Bid Process)....
Metso has been contracted by Domtar Corporation to rebuild their PM 5 fine paper machine at their Plymouth, North Carolina, USA, mill for fluff pulp production. The rebuild project will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2010....
Stora Enso is planning to centralise the use of recovered fibre-based packaging in Finland at the Corenso Pori coreboard mill. A recycling plant investment at the Pori coreboard mill will enable all the used packaging collected from households in Finland to be utilised at Pori. This includes used beverage cartons collected in Finland. Permanent closure of the recycling plant at...
The Syrian Company Mediterranean Paper Mills (MPM) has chosen Italian Toscotec for the supply of a new tissue line to be installed in place of the actual TM No. 1 in the Jableh, Lattakia mill. The new Toscotec Modulo crescent former features a single layer headbox, single press configuration and Steel Yankee Dryer TT SYD 3200 MM....
ANDRITZ received an order from Nanning Phoenix Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd., Guangxi, China to supply a PrimeLine high-speed tissue machine. Start-up is scheduled for mid- 2011....
International Paper and Fibria (formerly Votorantim Celulose e Papel) have agreed to extend IP's option to build a second uncoated freesheet paper machine at the Tres Lagoas mill site. This option, which would have expired on Jan. 31, 2010, has been extended until Jan. 31, 2013....
On January 25, 2010 Holmen Paper achieved a world speed record for newsprint on PM 62 in Madrid, Spain. Following the world record for the start-up speed of a newsprint machine of 1,640 m/min in November 2005 and the world speed record of 1,977 m/min in May 2007, this is already the third world record set by PM 62. The...