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Canfor’s Swedish subsidiary, Vida Group, has completed a purchase of three sawmills in the Scandanavian country. It follows on a June 17 announcement that Vida entered an agreement to buy the mills for $43 million plus working capital....

The volume of plywood imports dropped 28% YoY in 1H of 2020. Indonesia and Malaysia are the top shippers of plywood to Japan accounting for over 80% of all plywood imports. In June arrivals from Malaysia were down...

In order to meet the steadily increasing demand for high-quality laminate floors, Unilin wants to increase production capacity at the Belgian plant in Vielsalm. The € 11 million investment is intended to sustainably secure the location and also...

With the construction of an 80 meter long CPS+, Dieffenbacher sets a record for the world’s longest continuous press for the production of wood-based panels. The press is the core component of an MDF plant ordered from Dieffenbacher...

According to the information available on the website of the Arbitration Court of the Krasnoyarsk Region, supervision has been introduced at Novoyeniseiskiy LHK. The bankruptcy case against the large Russian timber enterprise was initiated in March 2020 under...

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...