Stora Enso has published its annual Green and Sustainability-Linked Financing Report 2025, which outlines how sustainability principles are integrated in its financing activities. The report presents the allocation of proceeds from the green financing instruments and highlights the environmental impacts achieved through these investments. Stora Enso’s Green and Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework is designed to finance investments that promote the Group’s sustainab

SIG announced today that it has been formally recognized by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) for meeting the highest criteria under the APR Design® Guide for Plastics Recyclability. This recognition applies to SIG Terra RecShield BD spouted pouch, marking another milestone in SIG’s journey to create designed for recycling packaging solutions across multiple formats and applications. With the spouted pouch now recognized, SIG continues to expand its leadership in

      Cockerill brings 27 years of experience across technical engineering, sales, and business development within the paper and packaging industries. He began his career as an engineering apprentice at RPC Group Limited, later specialising in polymer chemistry and material science, before moving into technical sales and commercial roles. Over the course of his career, he has held positions at DS Smith, Corrboard UK, Cartonerries Gondardennes, and

UPM Specialty Materials and Paramelt have jointly developed a bio-based and paper-based food packaging concept. It provides strong grease protection and improved end-of-life performance, making it particularly suitable for bakery, fast food and convenience applications. UPM’s advanced barrier base papers combined with Paramelt’s innovative bio-based heat-seal and barrier technology deliver a recyclable1 paper-based solution with the grease barrier and sealing performance required

Strong U.S. trade law enforcement measures coupled with the appropriate application of Section 232 tariff measures have resulted in reducing Canada's softwood lumber market share in the U.S. from 32 percent in 2016 to an average of 18.6 percent over the most recent quarter of available data.  This significant reduction in Canadian market share comes as a direct result of the U.S. Lumber Coalition filing trade cases against unfairly traded and harmful Canadian softwood lumber imports

Equinor, through its subsidiary Rio Energy, acquires the 230 MW Esquina do Vento wind project from Vestas, the global leader in wind energy solutions, and signs a turbine supply agreement with Vestas for the project, which is located in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeast of Brazil.   Vestas will supply 51 V163-4.5 MW turbines to the project. Installation of the turbines is expected to begin in March 2027, and all turbines are to be installed by end of 2027. In addition

SIG and Oobli have formed a strategic partnership to showcase integrated, reduced-sugar beverage concepts to market. By combining Oobli’s sweet protein technology with SIG’s advanced aseptic filling expertise and diverse packaging options, the collaboration aims to deliver long shelf-life beverages that taste delicious and don’t require refrigeration. What this collaboration brings: Proven combined capability: Oobli’s sweet

British master papermaker James Cropper is supporting a collaborative initiative with Little Coffee Cup and Carlisle United Football Club that demonstrates how used coffee cups can be collected, recycled, and reintroduced into the paper supply chain through coordinated, real-world systems. The project builds on the launch of Little Coffee Cup’s Big Surprise, a children’s book produced using paper made from recycled coffee cups via James Cropper’s CupCycling™

Ence’s recycled fiber bioplant project in As Pontes (A Coruña) has been provisionally selected to receive €24.7 million under Line 4 of the Industrial Decarbonization PERTE, led by Spain’s Ministry of Industry and Tourism. Specifically, the initiative has been awarded a grant of €24,691,726 within the call for “Aid for Highly Efficient and Decarbonized Manufacturing Facilities,” included in the 2025 Industrial Decarbonization PERTE, according

Toscotec will supply an AHEAD 2.2L tissue line on a turnkey basis to Intertrade Hellas at its Oyinofita mill, near Athens in Greece. The start-up is planned for 2026.  The new AHEAD 2.2L machine features a net sheet width of 5,600 mm, a maximum operating speed of 2,200 m/min, and a production capacity of over 80,000 tons/year. It is equipped with a fully hydraulic TT Headbox-MLT, TT NextPress shoe press technology, a third-generation design TT SYD integrated with the cogenerati