Supplier News

A few years ago, Sappi launched a multi-year modernisation plan to improve both production and paper quality of its Tugela mill, based in Mandeni in KwaZulu-Natal.

HKB-Hoa Lu Paper Co., Ltd. has successfully started up an OCC (old corrugated containers) line and a reject treatment system delivered by Andritz at its mill in Nho Quan District, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam.

CenturyPly successfully produced first fibers with its recently installed Andritz pressurized refining system at its medium-density fiberboard (MDF) production plant in Punjab, India.

Andritz has received an order from Andhra Paper Limited in Rajahmundry, India for a recovery boiler upgrade and sustainable technologies to increase capacity and reach environmental goals at the mill.

International technology group Andritz has received an order from Stora Enso to optimize the fiberline at the Enocell pulp mill in Uimaharju, Finland.

This is Mirae Paper's second TT SYD installation following another Yankee replacement by Toscotec on PM3 in 2013.

The start-up of the machine is scheduled for 2025.

Start-up is planned for the Q3 2025.

The former double-coated fine paper machine Oulu PM6 in northern Finland will be converted to be Europe's largest board machine and all pulpers naturally have to be of mega size to cope with the annual production volume of 750,000 tons of folding boxboard (FBB) and coated kraft back (CKB).

The start-up is scheduled for October 2024.

The upgrade will boost the line's capacity and improve the strength properties of the product.

The systems are scheduled to start up at the end of 2024.

It will replace the mill's two existing evaporation lines.

PM2 produces high-quality decor specialty papers.

Solenis, a leading manufacturer of specialty chemicals used in water-intensive industries, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Diversey Holdings, Ltd., effective July 5, in an all-cash transaction valued at an enterprise value of approximately $4.6 billion.

Valmet has entered into an agreement to acquire Körber Group's Business Area Tissue. The Business Area Tissue specializes in innovative converting and packaging technologies and services for the tissue industry.

The system will process waste wood collected from the surrounding 150 kilometers as well as use the pulper and fibrous rejects from the paper mill process.

The new line will allow Norske Skog Skogn to change its raw material mix and thus reduce variable costs and the environmental impact of its operations, in particular NOx emissions, fossil CO2 emissions, and landfilled waste.

The conversion project has been launched by the Heinzel Group, which will take over the Steyrermühl mill from UPM by January 1, 2024.

Jari Vähäpesola, the current Business Line President, Paper, has decided to retire after a long, successful career at Valmet as of December 1, 2023.

Konecranes has acquired the industrial crane service operations of Norway's Munck Cranes AS, giving it access to new customers and a large installed base of Munck's industrial cranes in Norway and beyond.

Valmet will deliver a comprehensive recovery boiler upgrade to Fibre Excellence Provence mill in Tarascon, Southern France. The upgrade will have a significant impact on the performance of the customer's recovery boiler, according to Valmet.

It allows customers and partners to conduct trials for producing nonwovens from recycled and/or natural fibers such as hemp, flax, and cotton.

The delivery projects are scheduled to start up during the first half of 2025.

Start-up is scheduled for the Q1 2024.