Over the Wire

Southeastern and southwestern sections of the U.S. are continuing to dominate Boiler MACT projects.

 

Preliminary figures show that paper and board production by member countries declined some 1.3% in 2013, with production totaling about 91 million metric tons.

 

Sale of the shares of Ahlstrom Fabricação de Não-Tecidos Ltda in Brazil to Suominen Corp. has now been completed.

 

Expansion project at mill in southern Chile will expand mill’s production to 2.1 million metric tpy.

 

Authorization follows successful completion of company's previous $100 million stock repurchase authorization that was implemented in January 2013.

 

Change of name illustrates and underlines affiliation of the joint regional sales office of Papersystems Asia to the companies in the Papersystems Group.

 

Investment would include a new 70,000 metric tpy tissue machine, additional converting equipment, and related logistic and civil infrastructure.

 

Project will include modernization of all of the paper machine main sections, with the goal of improving end product quality.

 

As of January 31, both the closing share price of Verso's common stock and its average closing share price over the preceding 30 consecutive trading days were in excess of the $1.00 minimum threshold.

 

Elliott Baxter and Co. Ltd (EBB), U.K., this week announced the acquisition of Cell Ltd., a U.K.-based carton board and packaging supplier.

 

American River Packaging and All West Container of San Francisco are changing their names to PackageOne to align the company under a single identity.

 

In addition to the usual seals, eight supplementary radial seals (two in each of the four corners) help to protect the wine inside.

 

Mechanical auto-cut paper towel dispenser, known as Paper POD, provides single use paper portions for hygienic hand drying.

 

Price surcharges of 5% for all of company's beverage filtration papers are effective immediately.

 

Aki Saarinen, EVP, Strategic Business Development, has decided to resign from Ahlstrom to pursue other career opportunities.

 

Business executive, author, and community leader Anne Giardini has been elected to the independent Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc. (SFI) Board of Directors.

 

In his new role, Robert van de Kerkhof will have management responsibility for marketing and sales.

 

Learn how to translate traditional operational metrics into real dollar savings.

 

Pacific TAPPI and University of Washington Pulp and Paper Foundation will have a joint meeting at the university campus on March 13.

 

Check your calendar for dates in February and March for courses designed expressly for reliability and maintenance professionals.

 

Don't miss your chance to attend the first of three introductory courses, March 10-14, being offered in partnership between TAPPI and NCSU.

 

No other event offers more learning, more networking and more technical programming than PaperCon, April 27-30, in Nashville, Tenn., USA.

 

This updated and expanded electronic version of The Roll and Web Defect Terminology – 2nd Edition is now available to members for a discount.

 

Member Paul Krochak Sets Personal, Professional Goals High.

 

To be held in New Orleans, La., USA, on April 8-9, featuring keynote speaker from Time Inc.

 

Candidates should have made an outstanding contribution to the research into and/or the industrial development of high yield pulping, i.e. mechanical or chemi-mechanical pulping, utilizing mechanical defibration techniques and/or new applications using high yield pulps.

 

Be a part of the future as IBBC explores the technology and economics of commercializing biorefineries.

 

Advance your career by presenting at the 2014 TAPPI PEERS Conference in Tacoma, Wash., USA. Deadline for abstracts is March 3, 2014.

 

This March 10-12 course is designed for operators, engineers, supervisors, and pulp mill managers engaged in pulp mill recovery operations.

 

A call for papers has been issued for IPBC, with a deadline of March 31.