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  Contact www.ipwonline.de Imprint March 30
2017
         
           



Inken Schoenauer
Editor-in-chief
Dear ipw reader,

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Valmet to supply a fine paper line for Ittihad International Investment in UAE

Valmet will supply a fine paper line for Ittihad International Investment L.L.C. in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The new greenfield production line (PM 1) with a wide automation package will be producing high-quality printing and writing paper grades for the growing domestic markets and the Middle East and North Africa region. The start-up of the machine is scheduled for the end of year 2018.
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Resolute Announces Start-up of New Tissue Machine at Calhoun

Resolute Forest Products Inc. is pleased to announce the successful start-up of its new tissue machine in Calhoun (Tennessee). The first tissue parent roll was produced on February 28, 2017.
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UPM Kymi pulp mill expansion project targets reach rooftop

The UPM Kymi pulp mill Kymi-870 expansion project had a roof-wetting party, which celebrates the project’s main construction targets. There will be a total of 130 attendees at the event, including those working on the project and invited guests.
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Xerium Ships First Forming Fabric from Its Kunshan, China, Plant

Xerium Technologies, Inc., a leading global provider of industrial consumable products and services, today announced that it recently shipped its first forming fabric from the Company’s Kunshan, China, machine clothing plant.
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Estonian investors consider construction of pulp factory in Latvia

Investors that consider building a pulp factory worth EUR 1 billion in Estonia’s southern region allow for the possibility of getting permission for the same project in Latvia, because this process can take a long time in Estonia, according to LETA.
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Brussels Employee-led Tree Planting Initiative enters its 7th year

Dressed in wellington boots and rain jackets, the dedicated Tree Planting Team from Sappi Europe, including Berry Wiersum CEO, once again braved the Brussels weather to plant a further 1,250 saplings in the Forêt des Soignes. Photo courtesy of Sappi: CEO Berry Wiersum and Sappi employees
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Valmet to supply a winder for Shandong Chenming Paper

Valmet will supply a new winder for Shandong Chenming Paper Ltd. at its Zhanjiang site in Guangdong province, China. The board machine BM 4 producing folding box board (FBB) will be equipped with a new winder to increase winding capacity. The new winder will be started-up in 2018.
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Holmen strengthens wood products business

Holmen has signed an agreement to acquire Linghem Sawmill from its present owner, Rörvik Timber. The sawmill has a new saw line with capacity to produce 75 000 cubic metres per year. Logs more slender than those sawn at the Group’s Braviken Sawmill, 40 km from Linghem, are used as raw material. The purchase price is SEK 48 million.
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Research program FLIPPR identifies new pathways for paper industry

Long-term research program involving Mondi, other representatives of the international papermaking industry, and Austrian universities identifies future business opportunities linked to lignin and fibres.
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PaperCon 2017


Sappi Biotech partners with CellMark to increase global sales reach of Sappi’s Hansa lignin products

Sappi Limited is pleased to announce that its Biotech division has entered into an agreement with CellMark appointing CellMark as the non-exclusive sales agent for Sappi Biotech’s Hansa lignin products, produced in liquid and powder formats in South Africa at Sappi Tugela Mill.
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Speciality Cellulose: Ice Bear capacity expansion

Borregaard will invest NOK 115 million in increased capacity for Ice Bear products in Speciality Cellulose. This investment will be finalised in the second half of 2018, and will bring Borregaard's Ice Bear capacity to approximately 60,000 tonnes.
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