The Swedish pulp and paper industry’s mission and future attracts young people
by Sören Back
In Finland the major pulp and paper companies are always ranked high when university students are asked about their preferred employers. In corresponding investigations among Swedish university students our industry has been well down on these lists.
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Kruger Products to Invest $575 Million to Build a New Tissue Plant
KP Tissue Inc. and Kruger Products L.P. today announced its plan for a capital investment of $575 million in the Brompton area of Sherbrooke, Québec, to build a new, state-of-the-art tissue plant featuring Canada's largest and most modern through-air-dry (TAD) machine.
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Forestry industry pushes back on Trump blaming fires on Canadian lumber imports
Canada's forestry industry is pushing back against comments by U.S. President Trump that lumber imports are partially to blame for intense forest fires in California.
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Cascades’ Recycled Linerboard Production Facility, Hanover County, Virginia
Cascades' recycled linerboard production facility is being developed in the existing Bear Island paper mill in Hanover County, Virginia, US, and was originally announced in July 2018.
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Former top bureaucrat at DNR lands job at Port Hawkesbury Paper
A former top bureaucrat at the Department of Natural Resources starts his new job at Port Hawkesbury Paper on Monday.
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B.C. wildfire update Sunday: Glimmer of hope in fight against 2 major fires
There seems to be a small flash of hope in the fight against two major wildfires in B.C.
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Neenah Introduces NEENAH® Cotton Papers, 100% Pure Cotton Papers
Neenah announces its recent investment to reinvigorate the cotton fiber paper category with its new NEENAH® Cotton Papers, a 100% cotton paper expertly manufactured by the mill ...
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Kimberly-Clark Announces Price Increases for North American Consumer Products Businesses
Kimberly-Clark Corporation today announced that it is notifying customers in the U.S. and Canada of plans to increase net selling prices across a majority of its North America consumer products businesses.
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Rebuild of fire-damaged Lakeview mill aiming for full-production by Feb. 2019
Nine months after a fire destroyed Tolko's Lakeview Division sawmill in Williams Lake the company said it hopes to resume full production by February 2019.
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Chinese Company Plans To Reopen Wickliffe Paper Mill By The End Of 2018
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin says hundreds of jobs are promised to return to Ballard county in far west Kentucky as Chinese company, Global Win will purchase of the shuttered Verso Paper Mill in Wickliffe.
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Lumber workers vote in favour of strike
A forest of lumber workers have voted in favour of strike action, sending a message to more than a dozen regional mill operations.
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FPAC Statement on President Trump’s Comments Regarding California Forest Fires
Forest Products Association of Canada CEO Derek Nighbor issued the following statement today after U.S. President Donald Trump's comments partially blaming Canadian lumber imports for forest fires in California.
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Forest fires in northern Ontario provincial park essential to ecosystem, official says
More than 23,000 hectares of Woodland Caribou Provincial Park are currently burning due to wildfires in the region, but the acting park superintendent says that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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State investigates spill of more than half a million gallons of wastewater from Maine mill
State officials are investigating a wastewater leak from a Baileyville pulp and tissue mill into the St. Croix River.
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Seattle mayor pressures Premier Horgan for 'immediate halt' to logging near Canada-U.S. border
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has written Premier John Horgan to express "grave concern" over logging in a critical watershed near the B.C. border, urging that the work be stopped immediately.
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How to learn from the workforce of the future
Businesses are strengthened and better prepared for the future when they make space for young people to learn hands-on, engage and contribute with their unique skills, writes Mondi's Group HR Director Michael Hakes.
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Liberals will maintain Crown wood allocations Tories gave to big companies
The governing Liberals plan to maintain the controversial Crown land timber allocations given to New Brunswick's big forestry companies by the previous Progressive Conservative government, ...
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Women in the Workplace
A career in the forest products industry offers as many rewards and opportunities as it does challenges.
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Northwest First Nations build a future in forestry
A decade after the operation had been shuttered, Buchanan Sawmills had reopened the mill in January and was back in business ...
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Glyphosate – Monsanto reaps what it sows in legal case
It is an astounding settlement in California. $289 million was awarded in damages to a school groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, ...
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CATALYST - Crofton Division
CATALYST - Crofton Division
CATALYST - Crofton Division
CATALYST - Crofton Division
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Columbia Pulp Opens Pilot Plant Producing Paper Pulp from Waste Straw in Washington
Pilot Plant to Provide Job Training; Product Samples Ahead of Opening of North America's first Tree-Free Paper Pulp Mill
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Exclusive Interview with Daniel Varnell of Solenis
Can you tell us about growth potential for specialty papers in the digital printing sector? Is this a market that you believe will continue to see an increase?
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Domtar Corporation Announces Pulp and Paper Mill Leadership Transitions
Domtar Corporation today announced leadership transitions for two fluff pulp producing mills, in Plymouth, North Carolina and Ashdown, Arkansas. Both mills are getting new, exceptionally qualified leaders ...
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Graphic Packaging International's EVP, Mills Division Al Nichols to Retire; Mike Farrell Appointed New EVP, Mills Division
Graphic Packaging Holding Company, today announced that Alan R. Nichols, Executive Vice President of Graphic Packaging International's Mills Division, has elected to retire on September 15, 2018 ...
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FPInnovations demonstration project turns into opportunity for Toosey First Nation
Thanks to financial support from the 2015 FPInnovations' Discovery Fund and the FPInnovations Indigenous Forestry Program, a team of researchers and innovation support specialists from FPInnovations developed and tested a specialized firewood product, therefore transforming a difficult to dispose logging residual wastes such as birch non-merchantable logs into a commercial product.
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Valmet will supply BCTMP plant conversion, slab press and conveyor systems to Estonian Cell pulp mill in Estonia
Valmet has received an order from Estonian Cell which will be delivered in two stages.
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Optimized belt alignment reduces the energy consumption and idler wear of conveyor systems
BeltGenius ALEX (Alignment Expert) from Voith analyzes the alignment of carrying idlers in conveyor systems as part of its service portfolio.
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Leveraging New Technology for Enhanced Quality at Irving Tissue in Saint John
Continuing to enhance our Royale tissue product with new technology.
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10 Mechanical Problems that Cause Paper Dryer Flooding
Paper dryers can experience periodic problems with flooding. A flooded dryer is one that has an excessive amount of condensate in it.
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Operational Efficiency Builds Sustainable Future at Plymouth Mill
In 2017, Domtar set forth a vision to establish our pulp business as a growth driver for the company. Since then, the pulp leadership team has enacted tangible plans to optimize and improve operational efficiency at Domtar's core pulp mills ...
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Pöyry awarded Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management Services assignment by SunPine for Biorefinery expansion in Piteå, Sweden
SunPine AB has awarded Pöyry with the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services assignment for SunPine biorefinery expansion project in Piteå, Sweden.
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Making crude oil from paper pulp? Vertoro creates this ‘green gold’
Vertoro is Spanish for "Green Gold". The founders clearly had their end product in mind when they started thinking of a brand name. Vertoro, a spin-off from The Chemelot Institute for Science & Technology (InSciTe), ...
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Stora Enso invests in building a Competence Centre and diversifying the raw material base for biocomposites
In order to meet increasing customer demand, Stora Enso will broaden its biocomposites raw material base at the Hylte Mill, Sweden to provide more choice in technical properties and selection of fibres.
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Arbiom Selected as Aquaculture Innovation Showcase Finalist
Arbiom, an agricultural-biotechnology company developing solutions to convert wood into food, announced today it has been selected as a finalist in the Aquaculture Innovation Showcase for its bioconversion process technology.
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LIGNOL® by RenFuel: a sustainable transport solution from the Swedish forest
Soon you will be able to fill up with bio-gasoline and bio-diesel from the Swedish forest – thanks to LIGNOL from RenFuel.
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Tissue Paper Converting Machines Market is Segmented By Tissue Fold Lines- Consumer Market, Away From Home Market; Paper Napkin Lines & Standalone System
Demand for tissue paper converting machines is directly dependent on the demand for tissue paper products.
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Sappi Europe to increase prices for Woodfree Coated and Woodfree Uncoated paper
Due to continued cost increases and solid demand, Sappi is forced to pass on this cost inflation by increasing its CWF and UWF prices in sheets and reels by 6-8% effective on deliveries from October 1st 2018 for all European and Overseas markets.
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Suzano Consumer Goods launches its toilet paper brand Mimmo
With the slogan "Care that yields more," the brand offers high quality and an exclusive "cut here" system that suggests usage to avoid waste
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NEW DATE! PAPTAC Webinar : Energy Reduction in HWD BCTMP
The PAPTAC Mechanical Pulping Committee (MPC) will be hosting a webinar entitled "Energy Reduction in HWD BCTMP"
September 6, 2018, presented by Eric Xu.
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