Toscotec boosts the drying efficiency of its tissue lines with TT Drying Equilibrium, a simple and reliable system that ensures an optimal and automatic regulation of the air balance in the Yankee hoods and air system. The system was originally designed by Voith and transferred to Toscotec for further development in the synergy-creating cooperation established with the acquisition. TT Drying Equilibrium measures several attributes of the air going in and out of the hoods, and automatically ad

Klabin is building at the Puma II Project, together with the new packaging paper production line in Ortigueira, Paraná, the first ever sulfuric acid plant integrated to a pulp and paper mill in Brazil, which will make the unit self-sufficient in producing the acid. Supplied by Andritz, the plant will reuse the residual gases from the wood cooking process to transform them into sulfuric acid, which will be used during the production of pulp and paper at the mill. Sulfuric acid

ANDRITZ Ingeniería, SA, part of international technology Group ANDRITZ, has received an order from Smurfit Kappa Nervion to provide industrial maintenance services for their mill in Iurreta, Spain. The ANDRITZ maintenance team will provide support during scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance activities conducted in the course of routine operations and shutdowns, working together seamlessly with the current Smurfit Kappa maintenance team and providing proven process mainte

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, "the Company") has decided that at the end of May 2022, it will shut down the operation of its coated paper-producing N6 paper machine at Ishinomaki Mill (Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Pref), a key location of the Company's paper business. The Company will transform the business structure of the mill with the assumption that the mill will implement household paper business late FY2023. Having operated since November 2007 as one

Verso Corporation announced the completion of the sale of the company's closed mill in Duluth, Minnesota, to ST Paper 1, LLC, effective May 13, 2021. "Since the idling of the Duluth Mill in July 2020, we have been working diligently to find a viable and sustainable alternative for the Duluth Mill," said President and Chief Executive Officer Randy Nebel. "We are pleased to have found a buyer who plans to operate the Duluth Mill in the future, providing local employ

In line with its previously communicated intention, Nordic Paper has today decided to discontinue the production of pulp at the Säffle plant during the fourth quarter 2021 and replace it with purchased external pulp. The decision has been made as the consultations with trade unions regarding the pulp production now have been concluded. The decision leads to positive environmental effects and the use of fossil fuels at the plant will be reduced to less than half of the current level.

UPM has signed an agreement to sell its Shotton newsprint mill site in North Wales, United Kingdom and all related assets to Eren Paper Ltd, a subsidiary of Modern Karton Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S., the containerboard and corrugated packaging business of the Turkish industrial conglomerate Eren Holding (“Eren”). The closing of the transaction is planned for late Q3 2021. Eren’s plan is to integrate the Shotton site into its existing business units and to make further i

OVERMADE, the well-known Italian company specialised in designing and manufacturing complete paper and tissue machines, continues its growth and today achieves an important milestone. Following the investments plan, set up since the foundation of the company, and continuing to focus its actions on ECO and LOGIC solutions while widening its product portfolio, OVERMADE is proud to announce the birth of a new company in the MADE group’s family named: POWERMADE will be responsible

Valmet supplies a Valmet IntelliTissue 1600 tissue making line to Chinese tissue producer C&S. The new line will be installed at the company’s mill in Tangshan, China. The start-up is scheduled for the first quarter of 2022. The order was included in Valmet’s orders received of the first quarter 2021. The value of the order will not be disclosed. However, a project of this size and scope is typically valued at around EUR 5-10 million. Valmet IntelliTissue m

Paper Excellence, a global diversified manufacturer of pulp and specialty, printing, writing, and packaging papers, and Domtar (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS), a leading provider of fiber-based products, today announced that they have entered into a strategic business combination under which the Paper Excellence group of companies will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Domtar common stock for $55.50 per share, in cash. The purchase price represents a premium of approximatel