Pulp & Paper

Huhtamaki has agreed to buy assets of China-based Jiangsu Hihio-Art Packaging in a €27 million debt-free transaction. Jiangsu Hihio-Art manufactures paper bags, wraps and folding carton packaging for international quick-service restaurants and national bakery chains. The acquisition will...

Stora Enso will enter into co-determination negotiations with employees at the mills in Kvarnsveden in Sweden and Veitsiluoto in Finland regarding a plan to permanently close the pulp and paper production at both plants. The planned closures would...

At the end of February 2021, JSC Volga started shipping finished products from the Nizhny Novgorod region to China by rail via the port of Vladivostok. The new option will reduce the cost of transportation and shorten the...

In the near future, RK-Grand LLC (owner of the plant) will invest 1.5 billion rubles in the town-forming enterprise of Pitkyaranta – a pulp mill, – which will increase the output to 140,000 tons of wood pulp per...

According to the data of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 1Q 2021, the output of Russian wood pulp grew by 0.1% YoY to 2.2 million tons. Paper and cardboard production increased over the reporting period by...

The main supplier of the process equipment for the 2nd line of Arkhbum Tissue Group LLC (Vorsino industrial park, Kaluga region, part of Pulp Mill Holding) is Valmet Finland and FIS Impianti Italy is a supplier for the...

Russian Timber Journal 03-2021: Oleg Fokin, Commercial Director of Sudoma Sawmill: “At the moment, Russia does not have enough own production facilities for processing low-grade timber in full”; WhatWood: Russian wood pellet exports outlook to the South Korea and...

As a consequence of its strategic direction, Stora Enso is in the process of exiting the segment of dissolving pulp for viscose production globally. This segment is not core for company and stands for only a small part...

Pavlovo-Posadskiy Gofrokombinat (the town of Pavlovsky Posad in the Moscow region) has commissioned a new building of 12,500 m² for storing raw materials and finished products. Investment in the construction amounted to 200 million rubles. The new building...

Segezha Group (a subsidiary of Sistema PJSFC) and machine manufacturer Bellmer have agreed to build a new paper machine at the Group’s paper factory in Sokol, Vologda Region. The new machine will come online in 2023. This project...

The tightness that can be witnessed on the European pulp market has been aggravated after two pulp mills of UPM had to temporarily stop production. Due to technical problems, UPM had to suspend production at two Finnish pulp...

Segezha Group acquired Giprobum CJSC, an institution specializing in the design of pulp and paper mills, in early 2020. At the premises of the institute in St. Petersburg, the Group is creating its own “think tank” for improving...