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  Contact www.ipwonline.de Imprint February 01
2018
         
           



Inken Schoenauer
Editor-in-chief
Dear ipw reader,

please find the latest news from the world of pulp and paper below!

Sincerely,

your ipw and bio-fibre team




Lucart has acquired the Spanish Group CEL Technologies & System

Lucart welcomes 2018 with a major investment aimed at strengthening its market position in the Iberian peninsula, through the acquisition of the assets of the Spanish Group CEL Technologies & System. In the summer of 2017, the CEL Group had to initiate an extraordinary administration process during which a tender procedure was launched for the sale of its production assets. The acquisition by Lucart was finalised on 31 January through a newly established company, Lucart Tissue & Soap S.L.U.
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Voith NipcoFlex shoe presses rebuilt for Wanlida startup in one day

Kunshan, China: On November 25, 2017, Voith Paper installed the new NipcoFlex shoe presses on the BM 4 and BM 5 paper machines at Wanlida Paper-Products Co., Ltd. The shoe presses were later started up successfully. The upgrade was part of a contract signed on August 11, 2016, according to which Voith Paper was to provide three NipcoFlex shoe presses along with the control systems for the second presses on the BM 3, BM 4, and BM 5 at Wanlida.
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FEFCO/CCB Revision of the Reel Identification and Finishing Guidelines

FEFCO together with Cepi ContainerBoard (CCB) have released the second edition of the Reel Identification and Finishing Guidelines, available on their websites: http://www.fefco.org/technical-documents/reel-identification-and-finishing http://www.cepi-containerboard.org/
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Toscotec will provide four new AHEAD-2.0M tissue machines to Vinda Hubei Xiaogan mill

Vinda International Group purchased four new Toscotec AHEAD-2.0M tissue machines, to be installed in its new production base in Xiaonan district, Xiaogan, Hubei. Toscotec will deliver the first two lines in mid-March and the second two in mid-May 2018.
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Resolute announces Yves Laflamme as President and CEO

Resolute Forest Products Inc. announced the selection and appointment of Yves Laflamme as Resolute's new president and chief executive officer, and a member of the Board of Directors, succeeding Richard Garneau. The announcement of Mr. Garneau's retirement today coincides with the announcement of the company's fourth quarter and 2017 annual results.
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UPM continues to grow specialty paper business

UPM continues to grow in the attractive release liner segments to support its customers mainly in Europe and the Americas. Healthy growth is expected to continue in these markets based on general economic conditions, increase in labelling, packaging and e-commerce as well as growth in medical and hygiene products.
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New communication concept highlights BillerudKorsnäs as change ambassador

Change often begins with a question. This fact forms the basis of BillerudKorsnäs’ new communication concept “What if?” – with the ambition to inspire more to challenge conventional packaging for a sustainable future.
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Papierfabrik Scheufelen initiates insolvency proceedings

Within six days of start of insolvency proceedings by traditional German paper mill Feldmühle Uetersen, Papierfabrik Scheufelen GmbH + Co. KG, Lenningen, also initiated insolvency proceedings on January, 30th 2018 at the local court of Esslingen.
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WestRock Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire KapStone

WestRock Company and KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation announced a definitive agreement, pursuant to which WestRock will acquire all of the outstanding shares of KapStone for $35.00 per share and will assume approximately $1.36 billion in net debt, for a total enterprise value of approximately $4.9 billion.
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Fibria signs long-term agreement with DP World for port logistics in Santos (Brazil)

Fibria entered into a long-term agreement with DP World Santos, a company of the international group DP World, for warehousing and port logistics services at the latter’s private use terminal (TUP) located on the left bank of the estuary of Santos on the coast of São Paulo state, in Brazil.
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Valmet to supply a waste-fired boiler to Shanying Huazhong Paper in China

Valmet and Shanying International Holdings Co., Ltd. have signed a contract regarding a delivery of a mill waste-fired boiler plant to Shanying Huazhong Paper's paper mill, in the city of Jingzhou in Hubei province, China. The new waste-to-energy boiler plant will supply electricity for the paper mill and enables the mill to utilize all of its mill waste in energy production.
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Paper manufacturer Feldmuehle in Uetersen files for insolvency proceedings

The Schleswig-Holstein paper mill, Feldmuehle Uetersen GmbH filed for insolvency at the Pinneberg district court on January 24, 2018. The court has appointed the Hamburg attorney-at-law and restructuring-expert Dr. Tjark Thies of Reimer Rechtsanwälte as the preliminary insolvency administrator.
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UPM and Åbo Akademi University into strategic partnership

UPM and Åbo Akademi University expand their cooperation by signing a frame agreement covering several fields of research. UPM and Åbo Akademi University have previously already cooperated in biomedicals research which is one of Åbo Akademi University's spearhead fields and a focus area of UPM's Biochemicals unit. The frame agreement strengthens cooperation in biomedicals and also in paper, pulp and energy research.
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ANDRITZ to upgrade evaporation plant at Stora Enso’s Enocell Mill in Finland

Start-up of the upgraded evaporation plant, which was originally delivered by ANDRITZ in 1992, is planned for the 3rd quarter of 2019. The upgrade to the existing evaporator train, using Andritz’s lamella evaporation technology, will increase the mill’s black liquor evaporation capacity from 600 originally to 800 t/h.
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Sappi to invest in Gratkorn Mill's future paper production with further modernization project

After finishing the upgrade of paper machine 11 in November 2014, PM 9 will be upgraded in 2019 to the current state of the art. The aim of the project is, in addition to the exchange of technical components, to operate the papermaking process with a reduced energy demand and thus to sustainably reduce the environmental impact.
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Smurfit Kappa opens new recycling plant in Malaga, Spain

The plant, which is expected to process over 30,000 tonnes of recovered paper annually, is perfectly positioned to meet the city’s growing recycling needs. A fleet of eco-friendly hybrid vehicles collect paper and board from households and businesses. This is then sorted at the plant and sent to the Smurfit Kappa Mengibar Containerboard Mill where it is converted into board that is used to create new packaging.
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FPInnovations and Resolute Forest Products Announce Investment in Pilot Project in Ontario to Produce Bio-Chemicals Derived from Wood

FPInnovations and Resolute Forest Products (NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) today announced a significant investment in the implementation of a TMP-Bio pilot project in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The pilot project will focus on developing new ways to efficiently produce and commercialize innovative bio-chemicals derived from wood, contributing to the development of a bio-economy in Northern Ontario, as well as elsewhere in Canada.
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