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Perfecting Circularity Together: Highlights from the 2025 4evergreen Conference
The 2025 4evergreen Annual Conference brought together companies from across Europe’s fibrebased packaging value chain for a day of open discussion, practical learning, and forwardlooking inspiration. Held in Brussels and streamed live to an online audience, the event highlighted how collaboration is accelerating the shift toward a truly circular packaging ecosystem.
Lessebo Paper launches Lessebo Covers for book covers where precision meets character
Lessebo Paper introduces Lessebo Covers, a premium uncoated paper developed specifically for book covers where material choice plays a decisive role in both expression and performance. Created to balance technical precision with tactile character, Lessebo Covers is designed to support book designs that need to feel as considered as they look.
The Navigator Company fights against climate change and deforestation
The Navigator Company is among the world's leading companies in the fight against climate change and deforestation. The company has once again achieved the highest rating of ‘A’ (Leadership) in the CDP Climate Change and CDP Forests questionnaires, reinforcing its top position in the prestigious CDP A-List for Climate and Forests.
Sara Ghione joins Omya Performance Polymer Distribution as President for Rubber Polymers and Additives
Omya Performance Polymer Distribution has appointed Sara Ghione as President for Rubber Polymers and Additives, effective January 1st. Based in Oftringen, Switzerland, and reporting to CEO Carsten Harms, Sara has over 20 years’ experience in the chemical distribution industry, most recently as Business Director for Polymers and Rubber EMEA for Brenntag.
MM Group orders continuous cooking plant from Andritz
International technology group Andritz has received an order to supply a new cooking plant to MM Group’s integrated pulp and paper mill in Kwidzyn, Poland, supporting the mill’s major sustainability and energy-efficiency upgrade program. Andritz will replace the mill’s batch digester cooking plant with a LoSolids continuous cooking plant designed to switch between softwood and hardwood pulp production. This investment will significantly reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions at the MM Kwidzyn mill.
Change in SCA's Group Management
Anders Edholm, Senior Vice President Sustainability and Communications, has decided to leave SCA during 2026 to take up a position with another company. Anders Edholm will remain in his role as Senior Vice President Sustainability and Communications until 31 July 2026. The process to recruit a new Senior Vice President Sustainability and Communications will commence immediately.
IBS Group successfully commissions starch preparation plant at Mondi Štĕtí
PGA Anlagenbau, a member of the IBS Paper Performance Group, is celebrating the successful commissioning of a complete starch plant for mass starch preparation at Mondi Štetí, Czech Republic. The plant is destined for the state-of-the-art new paper machine, which went into operation in December 2024. An essential component of the plant is the patented starch cooker PGA starchPerformer.
Yarn spinning partner Tearfil continues to support Spinnova’s fibre and technology
Spinnova Plc has signed non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with Portuguese yarn spinning company, Tearfil Textile Yarns to secure access to Spinnova® fibre volumes. The LOI outlines an important step in Spinnova’s ambitions to create an ecosystem (consortium) to enable the availability of textile materials with sustainable Spinnova® fibre in the textile materials market.
Kesla sells the product rights of its previously discontinued wood chipper product group
Kesla announced in June 2025 that it had decided to discontinue its wood chipper product group as part of the company's strategic review. At the same time, the company initiated a sales process for the product rights related to wood chipper products. On 17 December 2025, Kesla signed an agreement to sell all product rights related to wood chipper products to the Lithuanian mechanical engineering company UAB Ukmergès Staklès.
Andritz starts up sludge drying plant at Eldorado Brasil Celulose
International technology group Andritz, which supplied the technology and developed the new biological sludge drying plant for Eldorado Brasil Celulose’s pulp mill in Três Lagoas, Brazil, celebrated the plant’s successful start of operations. This project represents another step forward in Eldorado’s strategies to transform waste into energy and enhance the environmental efficiency of its operations.
Emtec Electronic celebrates 30 Years of innovation, precision and global partnerships
Emtec Electronic GmbH, offering measurement solutions for the paper, nonwovens and textile industries, proudly celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Since its founding on December 19, 1995, with just four dedicated employees, the company has grown into a globally recognised specialist headquartered in Leipzig, supported by a network of more than 30 international representatives.
Kemijarvi Biorefinery appoints Dr. Markku Hämäläinen to its Board of Directors
Kemijarvi Biorefinery Ltd. is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Markku Hämäläinen as a new member of its Board of Directors, effective 1 January 2026. Dr. Hämäläinen brings decades of international leadership experience in the forest industry, paper and board manufacturing, and large-scale industrial transformation.
