Kemira, a global chemicals company, announces price increases for all product lines for all industries in the EMEA region. Costs for all main raw materials, energy and freight have massively increased during recent months and continue to rise. The surge in costs has been further intensified by the ongoing war in Ukraine. Significant price increases are necessary for all product lines for all industries in EMEA and will be effective immediately or as contract terms allow. T

UPM will suspend purchasing of wood in and from Russia as well as the UPM Chudovo plywood mill operations for the time being. The company is preparing a mitigation plan accordingly. UPM also informed on 3 March 2022 that it will cease deliveries to Russia. The suspension will be implemented with due consideration of UPM’s local employees, customers and stakeholders as well as the legislation in Russia. UPM continues to honour its obligations towards its employees in Russia. UP

Due to unaffordability of operations in the current energy environment, temporary downtime has been initiated at the Bruck paper mill in Austria. The new boiler scheduled for start-up in April is expected to contribute to alleviate the situation by reducing the mill’s gas consumption and improve its energy supply. The boiler project and the packaging conversion project at the Bruck mill continue as planned. - Bruck has delivered newsprint and LWC magazine paper to its customer

Work will begin shortly to start ground works and construction of a new Accoya® wood production facility in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA, as part of the Accoya USA, LLC (‘Accoya USA’) joint venture between Accsys Technologies PLC and Eastman Chemical Company. Engineering has already commenced and orders for long lead-time equipment have already been placed, and the first Accoya ‘made in the USA’ is expected to reach the market in 2024. All environmental and

International technology group ANDRITZ will deliver drying, air and energy technology to Essity’s professional hygiene business for its PM3 and PM4 tissue machines at its mill in Menasha, Wisconsin, USA. Start-ups are estimated for the end of 2022. The ANDRITZ equipment enables sustainable and resource- saving production and includes: PrimeDry Hood HT (high-temperature) and air systems for PM3 – the ANDRITZ hoods for PM4 and PM15 were recently

Toscotec will take part in Tissue World Miami from 16th to 18th March 2022 to showcase its energy-efficient tissue technology and forthcoming innovations. Toscotec is set to introduce pioneering technologies aimed to decarbonize the tissue manufacturing process and propel the industry’s green transition to using fossil free energy sources. These technologies include 100% hydrogen burners, electric heated Yankee hoods, biomass boilers, and other forthcoming innovations, which a

Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, is to initiate negotiations on changes related to its plans to discontinue the sawn timber production in Kyrö. According to the plans, production will end in the summer of 2022. The change negotiations at the Kyrö sawmill concern all the sawmill’s 73 employees. “The Kyrö sawmill has reached the end of its technical service life, which is why we’ve initiated plans to close down its operations,” says Is

BillerudKorsnäs and the Norwegian forest owner group Viken Skog are forming a joint venture to explore the possibilities of working together to establish production of bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp at Viken Skog’s Follum mill in Hønefoss. BillerudKorsnäs and Viken Skog plan to initiate a feasibility study about future pulp production at Follum. This will be completed during the first half of 2023. The intention is to establish a state-of-the-art product

Toscotec will supply to linerboard manufacturer ETAP a technological rebuild of PM2’s press section at their Borg Elarab paper mill, near Alexandria in Egypt. The paper machine has a sheet trim width of 2,520 mm and it manufactures testliner and kraftliner in the range from 125 to 240 gsm. This is a repeat order for Toscotec, who in 2018 had completely rebuilt in stainless steel the Fourdrinier wire section of PM2.   This new order includes the supply of the new bi-nip co

The operations of Metsä Group's only production unit in Russia, the Svir sawmill, have been suspended. Wood procurement in Russia for the Svir sawmill and imports to Metsä Group’s Finnish and Swedish mills has also been discontinued. METSÄ GROUP More information: Juha Laine, Senior Vice President, Communications, Metsä Group, tel. +358 10 465 4541 Metsä Group www.metsagroup.com