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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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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Heinzel Group recently announced the successful completion of its acquisition of the Steyrermühl paper mill in Upper Austria from UPM. This strategic move reinforces Heinzel’s commitment to sustainability and growth in the paper and packaging industry. The acquisition agreement for the mill including its roughly 400 employees was signed in June 2022 for a takeover in 2024.
Already in March 2023 the ownership of an idled graphic paper machine in Steyrermühl was transferred to HEINZEL GROUP and a conversion project there is well on track. Once converted by the second quarter of 2024, the machine will produce up to 150,000 tons of brown and white low-grammage kraft papers per year to be marketed under HEINZEL GROUP’S well-established STARKRAFT brand.
With the closing of the transaction HEINZEL GROUP has now also taken over the Steyrermühl sawmill, a local power plant run with biomass and residues, and other facilities. HEINZEL GROUP plans to develop Steyrermühl into a supply center for heat and renewable energy for both the neighboring Laakirchen paper mill and the wider Laakirchen community. Projects include the construction of a second power plant, a large steam pipeline, and the expansion of district heating. “Our planned investments will not only secure a sustainable future for Steyrermühl and its employees, but they will also help the whole HEINZEL GROUP reduce the use of fossil fuels and reach our ambitious climate targets”, says Sebastian Heinzel, CEO of HEINZEL GROUP.
At five sites in Europe, Heinzel Group produces market pulp, packaging paper and magazine paper and trades in cellulose, paper, recycled fiber, and packaging solutions.
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In September 2023, exports of toilet paper from Italy contracted to 10K tons, reducing by -5.8% compared with the month before. Overall, exports saw a relatively flat trend pattern. The pace of growth was the most pronounced in May 2023 with an increase of 27% month-to-month. In value terms, toilet paper exports reduced to $23M (IndexBox estimates) in September 2023.
Over the period under review, exports recorded a relatively flat trend pattern. The pace of growth appeared the most rapid in May 2023 with an increase of 23% m-o-m.
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Metsä Group has selected Arup as one of its partners to design a planned new, state-of-the art tissue paper mill in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire. With the planned investment Metsä Group’s tissue paper business aims to replace almost half of imported essential tissue products and bring locally produced, sustainable tissue products to the UK, increasing the country’s self-sufficiency in this sector by 30 %.
Arup supported Metsä Group’s tissue paper business in identifying the proposed location – a 200-acre site in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire in the Humber region.
“Goole is the perfect location for this proposed investment. The Humber region provides a crucial gateway to the whole of the UK and the region’s ambitions to bring cutting-edge green technology and jobs to the UK matches our ambitions in clean, sustainable manufacturing”, Alan Jeffery, Technical Director, UK and Ireland, Metsä Group’s tissue paper business.
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International Paper announces the appointment of Santiago Arbelaez as the Chairman of the Paper and Packaging Board (P+PB) Board of Directors. This leadership appointment was made by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and marks a pivotal moment for the organization.
As the Chairman, Arbelaez will collaborate closely with the P+PB leadership team and the eight-member Board of Directors responsible for funding the Paper & Packaging – How Life Unfolds® campaign. The campaign is a national promotion program centered around sustainability within the paper and packaging sectors.
In addition to this appointment, Arbelaez will continue serving as the Vice President of Strategy for International Paper’s Industrial Packaging business, bringing a wealth of experience and strategic insight to his role as Chairman of the P+PB Board.
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Kyoto Group announces that it has signed a term sheet for delivering a Heatcube to one of Germany’s major paper and packaging manufacturers—Klingele. The designated site for installing a first Heatcube is at Klingele’s facility in Werne, a corrugated board plant in Germany.
Klingele Paper and Packaging Group, a global manufacturer with 13 corrugated board plants worldwide, 8 processing plants and 3 paper mills, aims to achieve a reduction of CO2 emissions by the year 2030. At the plant in Werne a reduction of 55% of CO2 emissions is planned by 2030. This goal will be accomplished through the utilization of off-grid wind and solar energy, coupled with the replacement of the existing gas boilers for steam production. To address the intermittent nature of renewables, Klingele plans to install Kyoto Group’s molten salt thermal energy storage solution, Heatcube. This innovative system will capture electricity when available and supply steam as needed. The recently announced AI-powered back end of Heatcube will also ensure state-of-the-art preventive and predictive maintenance for Klingele.
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MM Kwidzyn has completed the consultation process with trade unions and works councils. The company has taken the decision on the closure of the packaging kraft paper machine (PM3).
As a result of this decision, the production of packaging kraft paper IPACK™ ESSENTIAL, IPACK™ BROWN, IPACK™ ULTRA will be discontinued. The last production run on PM3 will take place early January 2024.
In a press release, MM Group states: “We are aware that this is a difficult situation both for the employees affected by the change and for the entire workforce, and we are making every effort to find optimal solutions and to limit the extent of the impact on the employees as much as possible”.
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Atlas Packaging Inc. is pleased to announce the successful acquisition of Republic Packaging of Florida in Miami. This strategic move strengthens Atlas Packaging’s presence and highlights the company’s commitment to delivering top-notch packaging solutions.
With Republic Packaging’s established presence in Florida, this union brings together expertise and promises innovation in serving our clients. The acquisition also introduces new capabilities in wood crating and an expansion of fulfillment services, solidifying Atlas Packaging’s position as an industry leader.
This acquisition reflects Atlas Packaging’s dedication to growth and excellence in the packaging industry. The company looks forward to the continued satisfaction of its customers and a successful future.
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