Susanna Rinne has been appointed as interim Executive Vice President of UPM Plywood business area, effective 1 January 2025. As announced earlier, the current Executive Vice President of UPM Plywood, Mika Kekki, has been appointed to lead the UPM Specialty Papers business area starting from the same date. Susanna Rinne (born in 1970) is currently Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, within the UPM Plywood business area. Prior her current position, she worked as Direc

UPM Fibres has completed its change negotiations in the Fibres Finland Operations organization, which includes the UPM Pulp, the UPM Timber and the UPM Forest organisations in Finland. The negotiations were initiated in October in order to increase efficiency and safeguard profitability. Approximately 1,600 employees were included in the scope of the change negotiations. As a result of the negotiations, a reduction of a maximum of 88 positions will take place. In addition, the negot

GreenFirst Forest Products Inc. announces that further to the Company’s press release of October 31, 2024, detailing the rights offering (the “Rights Offering”), holders (the “Shareholders”) of GreenFirst shares as at the close of business on November 7, 2024, are reminded the period during which the rights may be exercised under the Rights Offering will end at 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on December 11, 2024, after which time unexercised rights will be void an

Domtar is a separate company from APP with its own management structure and governance. Moving forward, Domtar and APP will remain distinct entities, with no operational overlap and independent governance structures. The companies under the Domtar brand have long been among the most supportive champions of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Domtar actively engages with FSC policies, procedures, and practices, consistently seeking opportunities to engage suppliers to source more F

As part of its efforts to achieve its climate goal of net zero emissions of fossil greenhouse gases by 2040, Södra’s first electric truck is on the road. Part of a pilot project, the truck will be entirely dedicated to transporting fossil-free deliveries of pulp from Värö to port terminals in Gothenburg and Varberg. This month, some shipments of pulp from Värö will be delivered by electric truck as part of Södra's climate efforts to achieve ne

Indian paper manufacturer Chandpur Enterprises started up two highly technological TT SYD MG Steel Yankee Dryers for Machine Glazed paper supplied by Toscotec as a replacement of two local steel Yankee cylinders at their facility in Chandpur, Uttar Pradesh. After the rebuild, PM1 and PM2 resumed production of MG paper in the basis weight range from 35 to 70 gsm.  A considerable jump in production and quality PM1 and PM2’s rebuilds have attained

FSC has extended the blockage period of a Chinese bamboo plywood manufacturer by 1.5 years for repeatedly making false claims on large volumes of bamboo plywood. Despite being blocked by FSC in 2022 for making false claims, FSC found evidence that the company recertified itself under a different name. The company did not disclose its certification history to the new certification body and continued to make false claims on its products despite being blocked by FSC.   The

Irving Paper will once again shut down 50 per cent of its operations beginning Monday December 2nd in response to NB Power’s record high industrial electricity rates, and remain down for at least a week.  “NB Power’s continued delays at the Point Lepreau generating station have resulted in electricity rates being over one hundred percent higher that historic levels,” said Mark Mosher, Vice President of Pulp & Paper, J.D. Irving, Limited. “No bu

Caesar Pac, a leading international company based in Kuwait, recently received critical emergency assistance from Voith within 24 hours. This collaboration shows the strength of the Voith sales and service teams and its commitment to support customers in times of urgent need. “We would like to extend our deepest gratitude for your efficient response to Caesar Pac’s emergency call. Your prompt action in dispatching a technical team for inspection and measurement, followed

The German Federal Cartel office has today started an inspection on Metsä Tissue, a subsidiary of Metsä Group, related to hygiene papers. Metsä Tissue cooperates with the authority. The fact that the Cartel office carries out such inspections does not mean that the company is guilty of anti-competitive behavior nor does it prejudge the outcome of the investigation itself. Lisätietoja: Miika Arola, Group General Couns