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Valmet will supply key technology to Shandong Jin Tian He Paper’s board machine PM 13 food grade folding boxboard line in China. The delivery will include headboxes, a former and press section, finishing technologies, automation and services.
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After several years of intensive work to produce high-quality birch seeds, Södra has now harvested a large amount of birch seeds in its greenhouse orchard in Falkenberg. The seeds will be used to breed improved birch seedlings with favourable traits, which will promote the growth and diversity of family forestry.
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All papers sourced by UPM Raflatac, whether used as a face paper or a release liner in its labeling materials, are now certified under a credible third-party forest certification scheme. Having all papers certified is one of UPM Raflatac’s 2030 responsible sourcing and climate targets, which was now achieved six years ahead of time.
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UPM confirmed that UPM Pulp, UPM Timber, UPM Biofuels and the Lappeenranta biorefinery can implement a total of 90 days from 1 January to 30 June this year. In the Communication Papers division, layoffs can be implemented from 1 March to 31 August. This applies to all for UPM’s pulp mills, sawmills and printing and writing paper mills in Finland. Temporary layoffs can be imposed individually and at intervals.
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Star Tissue, one of the UK’s leading independent manufacturers of hygiene paper products, has 130 employees and runs three fully-automated production lines with a total converting capacity of 27,000 tpy at the Blackburn plant. The company will be renamed “Wepa Professional UK”, while Khalid Saifullah, the current managing director, will continue in his role.
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Italy’s recycled board manufacturer RDM Group mulls definitive closure of the company’s Villa Santa Lucia mill in Italy. Yesterday, the group informed the representatives of the trade unions that it would initiate the procedure to wind up production activities at the Villa Santa Lucia plant with the consequent dismissal of 163 employees.
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The knock-on effects of the conflict in the Middle East are now being felt on the European recovered paper market.
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Stora Enso is going to enter into negotiations on possible temporary layoffs at the Anjalankoski mills industrial complex in southern Finland. The statutory negotations cover a layoff period of a maximum of 90 days in 2024 and involve the entire staff of the Anjalankoski mills. The talks will start on 15 January and are estimated to last two weeks.
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“This is an important acquisition, allowing us to immediately meet the growing demand, which saw a significant upturn in 2023. We are acquiring a technologically advanced plant that further improves our geographic coverage and creates the conditions to strengthen and sustain growth in our main market,” said Luigi Lazzareschi, CEO of Sofidel.
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Sofidel, the world’s leading manufacturer of paper for hygienic and domestic use, is once again accelerating its growth path in the United States.
The paper manufacturing group, best known in Italy and Europe for its Regina brand, has acquired from ST Paper a paper mill in Duluth, in Minnesota, in the Upper Midwest.
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The Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) has completed its acquisition of a 23% stake in paper products company Mepco, according to Global Gypsum. TradeArabia News has reported that the PIF aims to enable Mepco to expand production, increase efficiency and become more sustainable.
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UPM has completed the sale of Steyrermühl site and all related assets to Heinzel Group, thereby closing the transaction announced in June 2022.
UPM Steyrermühl was founded in 1868 and produced newsprint paper until the end of Q2 2023. Production capacity during the last years was 320,000 tonnes annually. The site also includes a sawmill with an annual timber capacity of 370,000 cubic meters.
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The company announced that it had concluded talks with employee representatives at the mill on the decision to permanently idle the machine
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Fibre Excellence announced that it has leased the site from Veolia and will take over operational management. The lease runs until the end of 2024 and it has also been agreed that Veolia will initially supply the plant, which is to be converted into a recycled corrugated case material mill, with recovered paper for the next ten years.
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Austrian Heinzel Group has announced the successful completion of the acquisition of the Steyrermühl mill in Upper Austria from UPM. This strategic move reinforces Heinzel’s commitment to sustainability and growth in the paper and packaging industry, the company writes.
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Weyerhaeuser Company announced an agreement for the sale of nearly 32,000 forest carbon credits at $29 per credit. This agreement marks Weyerhaeuser’s first transaction in the voluntary carbon market and represents the sale of all credits issued by ACR for the first year of the company’s Kibby Skinner Improved Forest Management (IFM) Project in Maine. Weyerhaeuser will immediately retire these credits on behalf of the buyer.
“We are pleased to be delivering our first forest carbon credits from our Maine project,” says Russell Hagen, senior vice president and chief development officer for Weyerhaeuser. “This initial sale is an important milestone for Weyerhaeuser and demonstrates our commitment to offering only the highest-quality credits to the market.”
AV Terrace Bay announced the temporary idling of its pulp operations in Terrace Bay, Ontario, Canada, with immediate effect.
The company said idling of the mill is “due to prevailing market conditions” and “will affect approximately four hundred employees.”
The pulp mill is located on the north shore of Lake Superior and produces 320,000 Air Dry Metric Tons of Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft (NBSK) pulp.
The mill will be put into a state of warm idle to facilitate a possible future restart, AV Terrace Bay said.
The Terrace Bay mill is part of Grasim Industries Ltd, an Aditya Birla Group company.
SOURCE: AV Terrace Bay Inc.
The ecological transformation project of the Grand-Couronne paper manufacturing site in France, formerly Chapelle-Darblay, has reached a new stage in its implementation with the takeover of the operational management of the site by Fiber Excellence.
Veolia, a major partner in the project, is committed to ensuring the supply of recycled paper and cardboard for the stationery industry, in a dynamic local and circular economy.
Since acquiring the site from the Rouen Normandy Metropolis in May 2022, Veolia has been keen to take over to make possible the project to strategically reposition the newsprint factory into a cardboard production site.
Graphic Packaging Holding Company, a leading provider of consumer packaging, today named Mark Connelly Senior Vice President, Investor Strategy and Development. This new role augments Graphic Packaging’s outreach capability with an aim to expand and diversify the company’s investor network globally.
Connelly brings more than 20 years of experience as a securities analyst and strategy consultant. He will report to Graphic Packaging’s Chief Financial Officer Stephen Scherger and work closely with Melanie Skijus, who will continue to lead the company’s investor relations function.
“In the past several years, we dramatically reshaped our company to offer a full spectrum of sustainable packaging for consumers’ everyday needs, both at home and on the go,” said Michael P. Doss, President and Chief Executive Officer at Graphic Packaging Holding Company. “Mark’s perspective, rooted in more than two decades of critical industry analysis, will help us fine-tune and extend the reach of this exceptional value creation story.”
The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) has promoted Emily Leonczyk to Executive Director and Vice President. A servant leader with a strong business and nonprofit association management career — including
five years in the paperboard industry — Leonczyk will oversee PPC’s operations while facilitating stakeholder collaboration and driving strategic initiatives.
Leonczyk has served PPC since 2018, first as Director of Marketing and Communications followed by a promotion to Director of Operations. Notably, her role in overseeing the 2018 rebrand of PPC underscores her contribution to shaping a modern-day vision for the organization.
Leonczyk was also crucial in guiding PPC through the COVID-19 pandemic, including the successful transition to virtual events and the subsequential resurgence of in-person engagement to pre-COVID numbers.
“I am honored to serve as the Executive Director and Vice President of PPC, and grateful to the entire PPC community for their support and trust,” said Leonczyk. “It’s my commitment to listen and respond to the needs of our members and empower our passionate and hardworking team to elevate the industry for the benefit of all.”
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