
, Henric Andersson will leave his role as Board Member of Husqvarna AB and CEO of Husqvarna Group, effective immediately. He will remain employed by the Group until March 31st.
, Henric Andersson will leave his role as Board Member of Husqvarna AB and CEO of Husqvarna Group, effective immediately. He will remain employed by the Group until March 31st.
Andritz has received an order from Klingele Paper & Packaging Group in Nova Campina, Brazil, to supply automated threading systems for paper machines PM1 and PM3 producing various paper packaging grades. The systems will be installed in 2023.
MM Board & Paper will rebuild the board machines in Frohnleiten, Austria; Neuss, Germany; and Kolicevo, Slovenia, during February-September 2023.
Valmet will deliver bleached chemi-thermo mechanical pulp (BCTMP), evaporation and non-condensable gas (NCG) technology as well as an extensive automation solutions package for Stora Enso’s Oulu mill in Finland. The deliveries are done in phases and the upgraded mill is scheduled to be in operation in early 2025.
The US door manufacturer Steves & Sons, Inc. placed an order with Siempelkamp for two forming and press lines for the production of door skins. Steves & Sons, a Texas family-owned company, is entering the door skins manufacturing business with this project.
Valmet will supply an extensive rebuild for Sappi’s Somerset paper manufacturing facility in Skowhegan, Maine, USA. PM2 will be rebuilt using some of the most advanced packaging manufacturing technology to produce a variety of both packaging and coated paper products.
Italian carton board manufacturer Cartiera Pirinoli selected Toscotec for the rebuild of the entire press section of PM1 at its Roccavione site in Northern Italy. The project is planned for the second half of 2023.
Norske Skog Skogn will invest around NOK 180 million ($18.2 million), after NOK 40-50 million ($4-5 million) in grant funding from the NOx fund, in a new thermomechanical production line (TMP) that will replace expensive recycled paper with fresh fibre. Start-up is expected in the first half of 2024.
U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.9% in the Q4 2022. In the Q3, real GDP increased 3.2%.
Jartek Invest Oy delivers a modern dry sorting line to Pölkky Oy's Kajaani production facility in Finland. The installations will begin in spring 2024 and production trial run will start immediately in summer 2024.
Koppers Utility and Industrial Products Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koppers Holdings Inc., announced the purchase of a 70-acre property in Glendale, Oregon. The purchase of the land, formerly used as a sawmill, also includes equipment on premises. The property was acquired from The Emerald Fund, LLC.
International Paper plans to invest approximately $103 million to build and operate two natural gas power boilers to generate steam for its containerboard mill in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This will directly reduce emissions by approximately 25% from the replacement of coal-based steam generators.
Maskincity in Motala AB becomes a dealer for Finnish Jarcrac. First demo machine is ordered (Jarcrac Magnapro Dual) and it will be delivered to Motala, Sweden for MaskinCity in the spring 2023.
Andritz sustainable technologies enable production of commercial grade sulfuric acid from the mill’s odorous gases, making the mill self-sufficient in sulfuric acid. The pulp mill, delivered by Andritz, is in the construction phase with start-up scheduled for the second half of 2024.
Paper Excellence will invest nearly $50 million to upgrade its Crofton mill’s paper operations in British Columbia, Canada. The Company will be working alongside Unifor Local 1132 and PPWC Local 2 at Crofton over the coming days to determine all details regarding the restart plan, including the official restart date in...
Tolko Industries Ltd. has commissioned Dieffenbacher to supply the core components of a CEBRO OSB plant for its production facility in High Prairie, Alberta, Canada. Once operational, the plant’s production capacity will reach up to 734,000 m3 of OSB per year.
Valmet will deliver a fiber fractionation system to Sichuan Tianzhu Bamboo Resource Co., Ltd in the Sichuan Province in China to improve mill efficiency. The value of the order will not be disclosed. The project is scheduled to be executed in the fall 2023.
Matti Huttunen has been appointed as the new Managing Director of KPA Unicon Group as of 16 January 2023. He has previously worked as the company’s Chairman of the Board and as the Group’s Chief Strategy Officer since August 2022.
Valmet has been selected to rebuild the cooking, fiberline and evaporation plant of Andhra Paper’s Rajahmundry unit in India. The delivery is scheduled to take place in December 2023, and the start-up is planned for the Q1 2024.
SCA and the Swedish Transport Administration are now testing automated speed reduction for safer timber transport. Geofencing is a technology that automatically reduces the speed of vehicles when they enter a specific area.