• Huyck.Wangner: Talent Award 2010
  For already the eleventh time, Huyck.Wangner together with the Munich University of Applied Sciences' faculty of Process Engineering - Paper and Packaging/Master of Engineering in Paper Technology, has awarded the prize for best student enrolled in the basic course. more
• E.C.H. Will and Pemco: Showcasing new soltuions for Asia
  E.C.H. Will and Pemco, two companies of the Körber PaperLink Group, will showcase new solutions and further developments for the Asian folio size market at China Paper 2010.more
• ABTCP 2010: Focus on Sustainability
  With the goal to promote sustainability through the entire production chain of the sector, the ABTCP-TAPPI 2010 43rd Congress and International Exhibition of Pulp and paper, that will take place in October 4 to 6, at Transamerica Expo Center, in São Paulo, Brazil.more
• Netzsch: Modernising name and slogan of Pumps unit
  The “Business Unit Pumps“ of the Netzsch group of companies changed its name to “Business Unit Pumps & Systems”. At the same time, the former slogan "Netzsch – The heart of your process" is now replaced with "Netzsch Pumps & Systems – Solutions you can trust".more
• Metso: Acquiring Wyesco Louisiana L.LC. service business, USA
  Metso acquired the service business of Wyesco of Louisiana L.L.C., located in Slaughter, Louisiana, USA. The acquired business, employing 30 persons, were affiliated to Metso’s Paper and Fiber Technology segment. more
• SCA: Strenghtening presence in Mexico and Central America
  SCA is purchasing the Copamex baby diaper business in Mexico and Central America. The purchase price is equivalent to approximately USD 50 million on a debt-free basis.more
• Metso: Chemi-mechanical pulping line to Chenzhou Yunong Paper, China
  Metso will supply a new bleached chemi-mechanical pulping (CTMPc) line to Chenzhou Yunong Paper Co. Ltd in Hunan province, China. more
• Metso: Fiber board production equipment to YiYang SenHua, China
  Metso will deliver a disc chipper and a defibrator system for fiber board production to YiYang SenHua Forestry Development Co., Ltd., Yiyang City, Hunan province, China. Start-up is scheduled for June/July 2011. The order value is not disclosed. more
• Clariant: Launching new urea-free paper brightener
  Clariant offers paper manufacturers new opportunities to achieve the highest possible whiteness levels for printing and writing paper with the launch of Leucophor VHR liquid. more
• ABB: Increasing paper machine availability for Korsnäs mill
  ABB has won an order to supply automation and control systems for two paper machines and a winder at Korsnäs AB in Gävle, Sweden. The mill produces paperboard and other packaging materials.more
• Metso: Cartonboard machine to Chinese Lee & Man
  Metso will supply a coated cartonboard production line to Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd to the company’s Hongmei mill in Guangdong province, China. more
• Mondi: Price increase for uncoated fine paper
  Mondi will implement a price increase of 7 to 9 % for all uncoated fine paper grades including offset printing papers, office copy and printing papers as well as specialities such as Color Copy and tints.more
• BASF: Selling European starch business
  BASF will sell its starch business in Europe. The contracts to this effect were signed on August 2. The buyer is Chemigate Oy, a company newly founded by former managers of the starch business in Finland. more
• Metso: Supplying a pulp mill to Oji Paper in China
  Metso will supply a greenfield kraft pulp mill to the Japanese Oji Paper Co. Ltd., to be built in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, in the southern part of China. more
• Sasaki Award goes to Voith Paper
  A screen that uses less energy than all comparable products on the market has convinced the Technical Association of Pulp & Paper Industries (TAPPI). The Japanese Voith Paper subsidiary Voith IHI Paper Technology won this year’s Sasaki Award from the respected trade association for its development of the LP Screen. more
• Lenzing: Best half year result in company history
  Consolidated sales in the first half of 2010 climbed by 43.6 %1 to EUR 847.2 million. This was the strongest rise in sales in the past years. more
• Voith: QualiFlex press sleeve sets world record in China
  Using a Voith QualiFlex sleeve on PM 21, Shandong Sun Paper Joint Stock Co. Ltd paper mill in Zhongtian, China managed to set a new world record for nip cycles.more
• Andritz: Stock preparation to P.T. Aspex Kumbong, Indonesia
  Andritz has received an order from P. T. Aspex Kumbong for the supply of stock preparation components for the Cileungsi mill, Indonesia. more
• Metso: Two defibrator systems to Hanhong, China
  Metso will deliver two defibrator systems to Guangdong Hanhong Wood Industry Co.,Ltd. for their site in Shaoguan City, Guangdong province, China. Start-up is scheduled for the first quarter of 2011. The parties have agreed not to disclose the order value.more
• UPM: Strong recovery in operating profit
  Strong recovery in UPM's operating profit in Q2/2010: Operating profit excluding special items was EUR 199 million (EUR 31 million). Delivery volumes increased in all businesses - sales grew by 20%. Sales prices started to increase following increasing demand. more
• Norske Skog: Continued weak results and challenging market
  Norske Skog reported gross operating earnings (EBITDA) of NOK 275 million in the second quarter of 2010, equal to the first quarter but NOK 293 million lower than the same period in 2009. more
• Brunnschweiler: Aerothermic installation and stabilisation for Vietnam
  Brunnschweiler has recently signed a contract with the Korean machine manufacturer Samyang Entech Co., Ltd. for the project of a new coated paper machine in Vietnam. This machine will be installed in the plant of An Hoa Paper to produce 511 t/d at 1,100 m/min with a weight between 60 and 140 g/m² and 4,400 mm width. Start-up is scheduled on March 2012.more
• Voith: Renewing winder and end process at SCA Munksund
  The SCA Munksund Mill, Piteå, Sweden, will improve its processes and decided to upgrade the existing Pope reel and to purchase a new winder and a new roll transport system, choosing Voith Paper as supplier.more
• Futura: 50th order for complete tissue converting line
  Futura has confirmed its 50th order for a complete tissue converting line. Thanks to a strong performance in the market during the past 12 months, Futura can confirm this significant landmark, which brings total projects, including rebuilds, to more than 100. more
• Propapier: Metso-machine exceeds design capacity
  Less than five months after its start-up in March this year the new PM 2 paper machine at Propapier PM2 GmbH in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany, exceeded its design capacity of 2,090 t/d.more
• Arjowiggins Graphic: Increasing CWF and UWF prices from September
  Arjowiggins Graphic announces that it will increase the price of its coated woodfree papers sheets and reels of at least 6% and its uncoated woodfree papers sheets and reels of at least 9% for deliveries as from September onwards.more
• Andritz: Favorable development in first half of 2010
  Especially in the second quarter, sales, earnings, and profitability rose substantially compared to the previous year’s reference figures. Order intake in the second quarter of 2010 reached the highest quarterly figure in the company’s history.more
• Andritz: Rebuild order from Kolicevo Karton
  Andritz has received an order from Kolicevo Karton, Slovenia, to rebuild its KM 2 wet section (wire and press section). more
• Metso: Suppyling roll wrapping machine to Russia
  Metso will supply a StreamLine C roll wrapping machine and conveyors to the joint-stock company JSC Solikamskbumprom for their mill in Solikamsk, Russia. more
• Andritz: Rebuildung drying section at Smurfit Kappa Hoya
  Andritz Pulp & Paper received an order for rebuild and installation of the drying section of PM 2 at Smurfit Kappa’s Hoya mill, Germany. Start-up is scheduled for February 2011.more
• Mondi: Increasing price for sack kraft paper
  Mondi announced price increase of 100 Euro per t for sack kraft paper.more
• Voith Paper: Successful retrofit of screen basket
  Successful retrofit of a C-bar C centripetal screen basket allowed a permanent shutdown of a screening machinemore
• Södra: Strong result for first six months
  Generally improved volumes and market prices helped to ensure a strong result for the first six months of 2010. Operating profit increased to SEK 1,084 (about EUR 115) million and return on capital employed amounted to 21%.more
• Metso: Establishing new facilities in Araucaria, Brazil
  Metso has started the investment in new facilities in Araucaria, Parana state, in southeastern Brazil. The investment will improve Metso’s competitiveness in serving the pulp and paper and power generation industries, and thus strengthen its presence in emerging markets.more
• Metso: Fine paper line to APRIL Fine Paper, China
  Metso will supply a fine paper production line to APRIL Fine Paper (Guangdong) Co. Ltd., to the company’s mill in Xin Hui, Guangdong province, China. more
• Brunnschweiler: Aerothermic installation for new Saica PM
  Once more, Saica group has put its trust in Brunnschweiler technology for the supply of the drying and ventilation system for its new board machine, to be installed in Great Britain. more
• Voith Paper: Another major rebuild for Varel
  This is the fourth time in a row that Varel Paper and Board Mill awards Voith Paper with a very sophisticated project. Besides increasing production capacity and extending the product range of PM 4, the focus is on efficient energy use and environment-friendly paper production.more
• Mondi: No 1 in WWF Paper Company Environmental index
  Mondi was rated the number one company in the new WWF voluntary rating tool for paper companies to report on their global ecological footprint.more
• Metso: Two tissue lines to Shanghai Orient Champion Paper
  Metso will supply two complete tissue production lines to Shanghai Orient Champion Paper Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China. One of the lines will feature an Advantage DCT 100+ tissue machine and the other an Advantage DCT 135+ machine, with a joint capacity of 70,000 t/y. more
• Double E: Exclusive resource for Mario Cotta slitting products
  The Double E Company recently acquired the exclusive rights to sell and service Mario Cotta’s advanced line of slitting systems, knife holders and knives in North America and Germany. more
• UPM: Increasing low-emission energy production
  UPM is satisfied with the Finnish Parliament's decision opening the possibility to increase the share of electricty produced by nuclear power unit.more
• ABB: Latest version of extended automation system released
  ABB’s System 800xA sales exceed 6,000 - the latest version is now available. more
• Honeywell: Enhancing Digital Video Technology
  Honeywell announced key enhancements to its digital video technology used by industrial facilities to more effectively monitor their processes. more
• Andritz: New deaeration system for Arctic Paper
  Andritz has received an order to supply stock preparation equipment with a new dearation system that will improve the quality of fine paper grades produced at Arctic Paper's Kostrzyn mill in Poland.more
• Mondi Coatings: Acquiring US Coating Plant
  New state-of-the-art facility in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to strengthen Mondi´s offering for specialised release liner in North America.more
• Honeywell: More options to OneWireless offering
  Honeywell announced enhancements to its OneWireless offering that will give industrial facilities more options to tailor wireless networks to best fit their needs.more
• Metso: Selling filled roll business Roval
  Metso sells its filled roll business Roval SARL located in Corbehem, France, to Silineos SA, owned by Olivier Roussie.more
• PTS: New President appointed
  At their meeting on 8 July, the members of the board of trustees of Papiertechnische Stiftung (PTS, German Foundation for Paper Technology) decided unanimously to appoint Dr Frank Miletzky as the new president.more
• Ziegler Papier: Impressed by new OnQModuleJet actuator
  Voith Paper Automation's new generation of actuators - brought out to meet higher availability demands - is just on the market and already sold to Ziegler Papier.more
• Metso: State-of-the-art Pulping Technology for Ilim Group in Russia
  Metso will supply the main technology for Ilim Group’s new kraft pulp mill, to be built in Bratsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. The value of the order is approximately EUR 180 million.more
• Andritz: Receiving two orders from SCA, Sweden
  Andritz has been awarded an order by SCA, Sweden, to supply a new lime kiln with fuel handling and white liquor filtration equipment to its Östrand pulp mill.more
• Heimbach: Adding shoe press belts to product portfolio
  Heimbach announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Yamauchi for the supply of Yamabelt shoe press belts into the European paper industry. more
• Hamburger Hungaria: ISO 9001 Certificate in 9 months
  Hamburger Hungaria: ISO 9001 Certificate in 9 months more
• Propapier: Starting up Metso-supplied PM2 in Eisenhüttenstadt
  Propapier: Starting up Metso-supplied PM2 in Eisenhüttenstadtmore
• SCA: Relocation to new head office with green profile
  SCA: Relocation to new head office with green profile more
• Sappi Stockstadt: Starting production of coated fine paper
  Sappi Stockstadt: Starting production of coated fine paper more
• Palm Eltmann: Triple World Record with Voith QualiFlex Press Sleeve
  Palm Eltmann: Triple World Record with Voith QualiFlex Press Sleevemore
• ABB: consulting NewPage Corp. on 10 mills
  ABB won an agreement that covers the first phase for reliability consulting in 10 mills throughout the US and Canada. more
• Pöyry: Engineering for biomass plant at Domtar mill
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• M-real: Investing in sheeting operations at Äänekoski mill
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• Södra: Announcing USD 30 price increase for pulp
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