UPM has taken another step in its decarbonisation strategy with a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for wind energy in Germany.
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Mondi has introduced Ad/Vantage Smooth Brown Semi Extensible, a new kraft paper designed to deliver both strength and smoothness for demanding packaging applications.
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Metsä Board has launched the installation phase of a major board machine modernisation at its Simpele mill in Finland, marking a key step in its €۶۰ million investment programme.
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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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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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French recovered paper merchants’ hopes that prices for ordinary recovered paper grades would be stable this month have gone unfulfilled.
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Saica Group invests more than 100 million euros in a new corrugated board plant in Barcelona.
Work has begun on Saica Group’s new corrugated board factory in Barcelona, which will start operating in the spring of 2025. Located in the municipality of Sant Esteve Sesrovires, the plant will combine the operations currently carried out at Saica Pack El Prat and Saica Pack Barcelona. The new project involves an investment of more than 100 million euros and aims to increase the current joint production of the two factories by up to 45%.
This facility not only signifies a pivotal benchmark for innovation and sustainable packaging solutions, but it also addresses the evolving market demands and spatial constraints of our existing facilities. Additionally, this investment underscores Saica Group’s long-term commitment to the southern European packaging market and will ensure Saica can support its customers’ plans for growth.
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The Pulp & Beyond 2024 Conference will bring together key people in the forest industry on 9 April 2024 at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre. The program for the three-part conference has now been published, focusing this time on innovative wood-based products, carbon zero future mills, and international control systems.
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Pulp & Beyond is the leading forum bringing together the latest forest-based bioeconomy innovations, products, services and technologies as well as key people throughout the ecosystem.
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Microline, an Italian company specialising in the design and development of packaging solutions for tissue products, has excelled for over twenty years in dynamic South American market, where it has a reputation for providing versatile, high-performance and high-quality machines.
The Tissue market consists in paper products in various forms, such as rolls and parallelepipedal (folded) products, manufactured using diverse techniques depending on their use: single-ply and smooth or embossed bonded multi-ply products with different purposes. The products manufactured using these materials are used in very diverse settings, such as the biomedical, cosmetics and industrial sectors. They range from hospital paper rolls to rolls for corporate cleaning, as well as toilet paper, interfolded hand towels, napkins, paper tissues and wipes. According to the forecasts, in the South American area alone, the market will grow to a value of 66 billion dollars by 2028, compared to 45 billion in 2020, with a compound growth rate of 4.6% for the 2021 – ۲۰۲۸ period.
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Saica Group has reached an agreement to acquire the total shares of the waste management and collection company, Ecovidal-Miguel Vidal e Hijos. Through this acquisition, Saica Natur strengthens its presence in the Henares corridor, an important business, industrial and residential area in the north-east of Madrid region.
The acquired company has 25 employees and in 2022 had a turnover of 10 million euros. It manages up to 53,000 tonnes of waste annually, the vast majority of which (92%) is paper and cardboard. Located in the municipality of Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid) with a warehouse spanning almost 16,000 square metres, Ecovidal has been supplying recycled paper to Saica Paper mills for over four decades, establishing a long-standing business partnership.
Saica Group is one of the leading companies in Europe in the manufacture of recycled paper for corrugated board, with an annual production capacity of 3.3 million tons of recycled paper for corrugated board.
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With more than 100 years of experience in molded fiber packaging technology, Huhtamaki, the maker of Chinet® tableware, is launching fiber-based egg cartons, made from 100% recycled material, for US egg producers. Huhtamaki is bringing its fiber expertise to the US as an alternative to foam egg packaging.
As of today, twelve states have enacted legislation aimed at banning expanded polystyrene packaging. The most common application for this material includes foam “peanuts” for packing, coolers, food service cups and plates, and egg packaging.In 2022, Huhtamaki announced a $100 million investment into a 250,000-square-foot expansion of its Hammond, Indiana, molded fiber manufacturing plant. Huhtamaki’s state-of-the-art technology will provide a full range of highly customizable egg cartons that are fiber-based and manufactured from 100% recycled North American materials. The cartons will offer increased branding space and will be available in several colors.
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Multiple awards in the Americas demonstrate Smurfit Kappa’s continued excellence in innovation
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Smurfit Kappa was honoured with the 2023 Strategic Supplier Innovation Award from the Chamberlain Group (CG), a recognition of its efforts to improve supply chain efficiency through groundbreaking technologies and sustainable packaging solutions. Smurfit Kappa’s investment in cutting-edge technology, along with its 1000 designers worldwide, enables the creation of customised packaging solutions that showcase customers’ products in the best way alongside advancing their sustainability achievements.
Five Design Awards
Smurfit Kappa also had success at the 42nd Convention of the Corrugated Association of The Caribbean, Central and South America (ACCCSA), where it distinguished itself among its peers in the Design and Booth Competition by securing five prestigious awards. One of the award-winning designs was for the eco-conscious fashion brand Guadalupe Design which needed a sustainable eCommerce solution that would convey the beauty of its products. The design team in Colombia produced a vibrant pack with stand-out print and innovative locking mechanism which can then be repurposed into a storage box.
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DS Smith, a world leader in sustainable packaging solutions, recently unveiled a major investment to transform the paper mill’s energy supply at its site in Normandy, near Rouen. The project includes replacing the coal-fired boiler with a new biomass boiler that will reduce the site’s emissions by 99,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.
The 56 MW Valmet high-tech boiler will supply at least 80% of the site’s heat demand and will be fully operational by the first quarter of 2025. It will be fuelled by 94,000 tonnes of biofuel, 30% of which will come from plant by-products (pulper waste) and 70% from waste wood sources such as furniture and demolition waste.
Engie Solutions will operate the boiler, which will allow for the possibility for the future installation of a steam turbine capable of producing around 10 MW of electricity with a maximum steam supply of 65 t/h.
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Due to uncompetitive wood prices from the Polish State Forests’ monopoly and low market demand across paper and board products, the company decided to significantly reduce the planned multiannual strategic investment project at MM Kwidzyn relating to energy, further pulp integration and the product range, which was announced end of April 2023. Instead, MM Kwidzyn will focus its investments on increasing its already high share of renewable energy of currently 69 % even further.
In addition, the company has entered in consultations with trade unions and work council on a potential closure of the small packaging kraft paper machine (PM 3) and a reorganisation, which may include collective dismissal of around 110 employees.
MM Kwidzyn will continue with unchanged production of pulp and virgin fibre-based cartonboard. Regarding the paper production, paper machines PM 1 and PM 2 will continue to produce up to 360 kt/year uncoated fine paper and 40-80 kt/year “IPACKTM Strong Pro” (packaging kraft paper). Since the rebuild of one of the uncoated fine paper machines has been put on hold, sack kraft paper will not be produced in Kwidzyn.
MM Kwidzyn is a leading cartonboard, paper and pulp producer in Poland. Since mid-2021 it has been owned by Austrian MM Group and is one of six European mills of MM Board & Paper. It produces virgin fibre-based cartonboard, uncoated fine paper, packaging kraft paper and pulp. The Company is selling a large share domestically and exporting its products mainly in the EU.
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The conversion investment project at Norske Skog Golbey will augment from EUR 265 to 300 million
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The net investment amount for the conversion project at Norske Skog Golbey will increase from EUR 265 to 300 million. As of the 3rd quarter of 2023, a net EUR 200 million has been invested in the project. The increase is generally due to increased purchase prices for goods and services throughout the project period as well as somewhat delayed deliveries of equipment. The start-up of production of packaging in Golbey is postponed to the second half of 2024 due to delivery delays. Considerable effort will be devoted going forward to ensure that the conversion project is completed within the new framework.
“The Golbey conversion project has a massive scope and has been carried out during a period of very high inflation and challenging global supply chains. Delayed deliveries and associated consequences have necessitated the project team in Golbey, along with the company’s leadership, to revise the project parameters. This has been a demanding process due to the project’s complexity and because it deviates from the plans we have communicated so far. Therefore, there will be a strong focus going forward to ensure that we deliver the project within these new parameters,” says Geir Drangsland, CEO of Norske Skog.
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Carton Group, a leading supplier of packaging solutions and a portfolio company of Waterland Private Equity, has completed a successful refinancing and made three strategic acquisitions in Italy, Germany and the UK. The company is further developing its position as a multinational player and underscoring its commitment to innovation, sustainability and design.
Carton Group started as a Waterland portfolio company in 2020. Following the two initial acquisitions of Joh. Leupold GmbH & Co. KG in Schwabach and Strobel AG in Roth, it is now taking important steps to forge ahead with its growth strategy. A group refinancing has laid a solid financial foundation for implementing the company’s ambitious plans and further strengthening its market position. On this basis, Carton Group has made three major acquisitions since September 2023, thereby expanding its portfolio and its presence on the international market: The addition of new group members Europoligrafico in Italy, noble-pac in Düren, North Rhine Westphalia, and Wrapology in London, UK, represents a transformative milestone in the development of Carton Group.
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Recently the market faced a serious threat of products counterfeiting. To support its customers and secure final users AIP (Advanced Industries Packaging) has developed an easy-in-use solution: UV mark on the surface of the sack.
What is it: The security mark visible in UV light is a measure of protection and identification of the originality of customers’ products and protection against counterfeiting.
How it works: It is applied on the bottom patch or on the body of the sack and either has the image of the client’s logo or of the sack’s manufacturer (it is up to the client). This mark is invisible in the visible spectrum but is visible through UV light.
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Recently, Sun Paper’s two state-of-the-art packaging paper machines PM 2 and PM 3 were successfully commissioned at the Nanning, China site within one month. PM 3 successfully passed the tests in only three weeks and achieved a record-breaking start-up time of only one hour from stock on wire to the first saleable paper roll. With the start-up of the two state-of-the-art XcelLine machines from Voith, Sun Paper consolidates its leading position in the global paper industry and sets another milestone in the long-standing cooperation between the two companies. The exceptional performance is the result of many years of trust and close cooperation between the Sun Paper and Voith teams. The daily exchange of knowledge and thorough project preparation led to significantly reduced downtimes during project implementation.
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Sustainable packaging fuels growth and innovation in specialty papers, new Smithers data reveal
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Demand for more greener packaging is aligning with innovation in industrial applications to future drive sales of specialty papers, according to the latest Smithers research.
Data from its new study – The Future of Specialty Papers to 2028 – show production of these engineered premium paper grades will reach 26.52 million tons in 2023, up from 24.23 million tons in 2018. Despite challenging economic conditions in several core markets, an overall positive growth trajectory is forecast by Smithers expert data modeling. Consumption of specialty papers is forecast to increase at a +2.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) across 2023-2028, adding an extra 2.97 million tons of demand, globally, over the five[۱]year period.
The specialty paper market remains febrile, recent changes in paper sales patterns, in particular declining demand for office and printing grades, has seen several graphic paper assets retooled to make specialty grades. Modern papermaking innovations allow these to produce specialty grades on larger more efficient paper machines, threatening the margins of smaller established specialist paper converters.
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