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East meets West
Jul 01, 2008; Zhu, Annie ... IT WAS A BUSY AND EXCITING MONTH as I attended two important events in the paper and pulp industry- SPCI in Stockholm and also the 9th RISI Asian Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference in Shanghai. Chinese faces were rare at the biggest European exhibition and conference of the year ....
SOUTH AFRICA TO BIN DUTIES ON INDONESIAN IMPORTS
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... WORLDWIDE Indonesia has welcomed the news that South Africa will ditch anti-dumping duties on A4 paper, affecting three Indonesian subsidiaries of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP). The decision follows a Supreme Court of Appeal ruling that the levies should have been dropped from ...
M-REAL AND ARJOWIGGINS TERMINATE ZANDERS REFLEX MILL DEAL
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... EUROPE M-real and Arjowiggtns, Sequanrfs wholly owned subsidiary, entered into a sale and purchase agreement on October 12,2007 in order for Arjowiggins to acquire M-real Zanders Reflex mill. The transaction was approved by the European Commission on June 4,2008, under the condition that ...
METSO ACQUIRES LIGNOBOOST
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Metso has snapped up Lignoboost, a subsidiary of STFI-Packforsk, which is one of the world's leading research and development (R&D) companies in the fields of pulp, paper, graphic media and packaging. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. Lignoboost, a Swedish research ...
Top three cut production
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... EUROPE Europe's three leading coated woodfree paper manufacturers Sappi, Lecta and M-real have separately announced plans to curtail their production over the next few months. Sappi's subsidiary Sappi Fine Paper Europe will reduce its fine paper production in the coming months by ...
VACON AND VOITH SIGN GLOBAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Finland-based AC drives manufacturer Vacon has signed a global cooperation agreement with Voith Paper Automation, one of the seven Voith Paper divisions, which supplies comprehensive automation solutions for the paper industry. Voith Paper Automation has chosen Vacon as their preferred AC ...
NORSKE SKOG SHUTS PLANT
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... CZECH REPUBLIC Norske Skog shut down its Steti mill In the Czech Republic on May 29. The site houses one 130,000 tonne/yr newsprint machine, which the company does not plan to dismantle at this stage. The firm is prepared ...
WHITE COLLAR WORKERS STRIKE AVOIDED
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... FINLAND Last-ditch efforts by Finnish National Conciliator Juhanl Salonius to avert a strike across the nation's pulp and paper sector succeeded just in time with ICEM affiliate lbimihenkuounioni TU and the Finnish Forest Industries Federation agreeing to a 21-month labor ...
IP STARTING UP BCTMP LINE
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... RUSSIA International Paper (IP) is gradually starting up a new 200,000 tonne/yr bleached chemithermomechanical pulp (BCTMP) line at its Svetogorsk mill in the Leningrad region of Russia. The unit was originally planned to come on stream in the fourth quarter of 2006, but ...
Sodium chlorate cartel fines
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... EUROPE The European Commission (EC) has fined a group of sodium chlorate producers a total of more than Euro 79 million ($124 million) for market sharing and price fixing activities between 1994 and 2000. The firms concerned are Akzo Nobel of the Netherlands and its parent ...
STORA ENSO KICKS OFF RUSSIAN MILL FEASIBILITY STUDY
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Stora Enso has started a feasibility study for an integrated pulp and paper mill in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia. The firm signed a letter of intent with the regional administration in December last year, following a pre-feasibility study announced on July 17, 2007. Stora ...
NWTC FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY FOR RUSSIAN PLANTS
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... North West Umber Company (NWTC) has filed for insolvency proceedings for Its facilities In Neman and Kamennogorsk, in Russia. According to a spokesman, the firm could not meet its credit payments and applied for bankruptcy proceedings for its two mills. On May 14, the Kaliningrad court ...
UKRAINE TO REMOVE TARIFFS
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... UKRAINE The Ukraine is set to remove Import quotas on all pulp and paper products. The move comes after the country became a new member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on May 16. According to Eduard Litvak, managing director of Ukrpapir, the Ukraine's association for ...
GUNNS LOSES FINANCIAL BACKER FOR PULP PROJECT
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... AUSTRALIA The Australian financial institution ANZ has confirmed that It has withdrawn as lead financier for Gunns' controversial A$1.7 billion ($1.6 billion) pulp mill scheme in northern Tasmania. However, Gunns insisted that the project is on schedule, with strong ...
AHLSTROM DROPS JV PLANS
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... CHINA Ahlstrom has halted negotiations with Zhejlang Kan Spedalty Material and its management on forming a specialty paper joint venture in China. Agreements were signed in September and the deal was due to be wrapped up during the fourth quarter. But the Finnish firm said ...
MILLS FAIRLY UNSCATHED BY EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Hong Kong-based tissue producer Vinda International Holdings has reported that its mill in Deyang city, Sichuan province, China, escaped relatively unscathed from the 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the area on May 12. Vinda contacted employees at its plant immediately after the ...
Nine Dragons slows pace
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... ASIA Asia's largest packaging producer. Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings), may slow the pace of its capacity expansion in China, particularly of recycled containerboard, after a decade of rapid growth. Beyond 2009, the group has no more containerboard expansions in the pipeline. A ...
CHINA'S HUNAN TIGER TRIES OUT NEW PULP LINE
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... China's Hunan Tiger Forest & Paper has started dry tests on a new 400,000 tonne/yr bleached kraft pulp line at a greenfield mill in Huaihua city, Hunan province. Trial runs are expected to follow in June. Startup of the pulp line was originally scheduled for the first quarter of this ...
BILT SET TO INSTALL NEW PM
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... INDIA Ballarpur Industries (BELT) is forging ahead with the expansion of two plants in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The firm has started taking delivery of equipment for a new coated woodfree paper machine from Voith for its Bhigwan facility in Pune city. The new unit, PM 2, ...
WEST COAST INSTALLS PULP LINE
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... West Coast Paper Mills has kicked off installation work for a new bleached hardwood kraft (BHK) pulp line at a greenfleld plant in the southern Indian state of Kamataka. The 230,000 tonne/yr line was supplied by Metso and ...