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Valmet will deliver a new bleach plant and upgrade of the batch cooking and fiberline to ITC’s Bhadrachalam pulp mill in India. The order is included in Valmet’s orders received of the third quarter 2020. The order value...

GS Group announced its plans to invest up to half a billion rubles in the development of production of packaging from cast paper pulp at First Cardboard Factory (part of Technopolis GS Innovation Cluster, the town of Gusev,...

Stora Enso will build a pilot facility for producing Cellufoam by Stora Enso, a lightweight, fiber-based foam material for protective packaging and cushioning. The pilot plant will be located at Stora Enso’s Fors Mill in Sweden. The sustainable...

The company’s press office informs that papermaking machine No. 7 of Kama PPM (Krasnokamsk, Perm region) produced the first batch of base paper for wallpaper production weighing 80 g/m². New products in batches of 40, 100, and 160...

To ensure future competitiveness of UPM Communication Papers, UPM announces plans for permanent closing of UPM Kaipola paper mill in Finland, sale of UPM Shotton paper mill in Wales and streamlining Communication Papers business function teams. In addition,...

SCA intends to invest SEK 1,45bn (US $165 million) in the production of chemically pre-treated thermo-mechanical pulp (CTMP) at the Ortviken paper mill in Sundsvall. In parallel, SCA is initiating consultations with trade unions and employee representatives to discontinue...

Inspectors of the regional Ministry of Ecology and Rational Use of Natural Resources have checked the compliance of wood processing enterprises with environmental legislation. The auditors visited Boguchansky and Yemelyanovsky districts and inspected Medeo, Tigman, Zhunghesheng, ProfSibLes, and...

The Austrian binderholz Group, based in Fügen, acquired all the assets of Klausner Lumber One LLC, based in Live Oak, Suwannee County, Florida, at the auction on August 21st. With the bid of 61 million US dollars received,...

Implementation of the project made it possible to create a modern production facility ensuring the full cycle of processing wood raw materials (including waste) into finished products. The wood processing facility is located in the village of Isa...

The issues of effective disposal of waste from harvesting, woodworking, and value-added wood processing have been particularly topical for Russia in the post-Soviet period. Today, more and more small Russian enterprises are opening their own board production facilities, thereby...

The Russian government has been promoting wood processing in the Russian Far East region and log export duty has been raised step by step, which reduced supply of larch logs for plywood manufacturing in Japan. The duty was...

The initiator, Novy Sever LPK LLC, intends to invest about 366 million rubles in the construction, the project is expected to be implemented by 2023. The new production facility is designed as an integrated full-cycle enterprise: harvesting, processing,...