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AccuFlow II press fabrics generate record reorders

adminOctober 22, 2013April 9, 2021

October 22, 2013April 9, 2021

September 27, 2013 Getting a paper producer to run a trial on a new press fabric is a big deal. If the fabric does not perform, production is lost, time is lost, and money is lost while the trial fabric is removed and replaced. That is why the people at......

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Sinar Mas owner is Indonesia's richest man

adminOctober 22, 2013April 9, 2021

October 22, 2013April 9, 2021

September 25, 2013 Billionaire Eka Tjipta Widjaja is Indonesia’s wealthiest man, says the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Eka, who Bloomberg claims controls the world’s second-largest palm oil producer through Singapore-based Golden-Agri Resources, was reported to possess USD 8.4 billion in total wealth and was ranked 139 on the index of the......

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Voith Paper Prepares for Weaker Paper Market

adminOctober 22, 2013April 9, 2021

October 22, 2013April 9, 2021

September 13, 2013 Voith Paper is preparing for a further worsening of the global paper market with a package of measures. The aim of the planned measures is to ensure the profitability and lasting competitiveness of Voith Paper under worsening market conditions. For this purpose, competences will be pooled together......

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Stora Enso draws EUR 140 million loan for R&D projects

adminOctober 22, 2013April 9, 2021

October 22, 2013April 9, 2021

September 24, 2013 Stora Enso has drawn a EUR 140 million seven-year loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to be used for research and development. The interest rate of the loan is 3.3 per cent. “We have had long and fruitful co-operation with EIB. This is Stora Enso’s third......

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India printer, copier market dips 9% in Q1 2013

adminSeptember 16, 2013April 13, 2021

September 16, 2013April 13, 2021

June 18, 2013 The combined serial inkjet and page printer, copier and multifunction product (MFP) market in India totaled 690,344 units in the first quarter of 2013, a 8.9 percent decrease from the first quarter of 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. Total end user spending remained almost flat witnessing a......

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Clariant launches environmentally focused optical brighteners

adminSeptember 16, 2013April 13, 2021

September 16, 2013April 13, 2021

June 3, 2013 Clariant launched the world’s most highly concentrated, urea-free liquid optical brightening agent (OBA) for printing and writing papers. New disulphonated Leucophor® ACK contains no environmentally harmful additives, decreases OBA requirements for papermakers, and lowers transport costs and carbon footprint. Leucophor ACK is an ultra-concentrated aqueous solution specially......

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Himachal to ban potato chips, candies packaged in polythene

adminSeptember 16, 2013April 13, 2021

September 16, 2013April 13, 2021

July 1, 2013 Himachal Pradesh will impose a ban on using polythene for packaging non-essential eatables, especially potato chips and candies, from July 1. The ban, first of its kind in the country, comes in the wake of a Himachal Pradesh High Court order in January, imposing a blanket ban......

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Emami Paper moves to fund packaging board project

adminSeptember 16, 2013April 13, 2021

September 16, 2013April 13, 2021

June 20, 2013 Emami Paper has announced a share issue to fund its cartonboard expansion project at a site adjacent to its existing mill in Balasore, Odisha. Emami Paper is putting up a 100,000 tons board machine that will be able to produce virgin fiber-based cartonboard as well as whiteback......

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Zhejiang Jingxing Paper to install containerboard line in China

adminSeptember 16, 2013April 13, 2021

September 16, 2013April 13, 2021

June 27, 2013 Metso will supply Zhejiang Jingxing Paper Joint Stock Co., Ltd. with an OptiConcept M containerboard production line for their Pinghu site in Zhejiang Province in China. The new production line is targeted to produce high-quality containerboard grades out of 100 percent recycled raw materials. The start-up of......

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Stora Enso invests in biorefinery in Finland

adminSeptember 16, 2013April 13, 2021

September 16, 2013April 13, 2021

July 19, 2013 Stora Enso has decided to invest Euro 32 million in building a world-class biorefinery at Sunila Mill in Finland, which will reduce the CO2 emissions of the mill by replacing up to 90% of natural gas by lignin extracted from the black liquor. This will be the......