| Thursday, September 29, 2022 - Member
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Weekly Spotlight
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From The Experts
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Market Roundup
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Pulp & Paper
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Containerboard/Packaging
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New Products
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Sustainability
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People
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TAPPI News
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Weekly Spotlight
Learn from industry experts and improve your bottom line performance at PEERS/IBBC 2022.
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Pixelle Specialty Solutions announced that it will close its mill located in Jay, Maine in the first quarter of 2023. The mill employs approximately 230 people who will be affected by the closure.
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Metsä Group announced that its Äänekoski bioproduct mill in Finland will hold its annual maintenance shutdown, by department, on Sunday, Oct. 2 and restart operations Oct. 6.
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Georgia-Pacific announced that it is investing more than $425 million in Jackson, Tennessee, to build a state-of-the-art Dixie® manufacturing facility. The new plant will significantly increase the supply of disposable tableware products.
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In August, the Chinese paper manufacturer Shanying Suzhou Paper commissioned Voith to supply two XcelLine paper machines with comprehensive digitalization and automation solutions as well as services and spare parts packages for its new site in Zhongying, Anhui Province, in eastern China.
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From The Experts
The paper and wood products industry is filled with sustainability leaders.
This includes AF&PA’s Board Chair, Christian Fischer. As President and CEO of Georgia-Pacific, he champions sustainability daily, and has supported it throughout his career. Recently, he explained how Georgia-Pacific is guided by its broader Stewardship Framework, encompassing environmental, social and governance.
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Market Roundup
Today’s pulp markets are seeing record high prices, with major players announcing new price hikes almost weekly. If we take a step back to look at how we arrived here, there are three components of the market that could be indicators for when prices will reach an inflection point in the short term.
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Pulp & Paper
Cascades said that it is temporarily shutting down one of its two tissue paper machines at its St. Helens, Oregon facility due to structural issues of the building housing the machine.
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Another milestone has been passed in that PulpEye no. 80 has been sold to Ahlstrom-Munksjö’s specialty paper mill in Billingsfors in Sweden. It is a successful and niche specialty paper mill with large customers in, among other things, steel and furniture manufacturing.
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Dunn Paper announced that they will cease production at their Port Huron, Michigan paper mill.
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Containerboard/Packaging
Valmet will supply the Cheng Loong Binh Duong Paper Company with key process technology for its new containerboard machine 23 (BM 23) at the company's Ben Cat mill in Binh Duong Province in Vietnam.
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Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, has worked on an innovative collaboration with German machine producer Heiber + Schröder to create a high-speed automated packaging machine that meets the process, efficiency and safety requirements of eCommerce fulfilment operations.
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New Products
With the AiroGuide Tune Green, Voith is setting a new standard in the field of papermaking products made of renewable raw materials. As the latest member of the AiroGuide guide roll cover family, AiroGuide Tune Green is certified according to the internationally recognized DIN CERTCO for bio-based products.
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Sustainability
Metsä Fibre, Ahlstrom-Munksjö and 3M, with the help of Earthworm Foundation, continue their close collaboration in responsible wood sourcing.
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UPM has set a target to increase the amount of deadwood in its commercial forests from the current level of about five cubic metres per hectare to ten cubic metres per hectare. In UPM’s protected areas and commercial forests where a specific nature management target has been set, the deadwood target is 20 cubic metres per hectare.
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People
Tero Ojala has been appointed Project Director as of 1 October 2022. He will report to Ari Kiviranta, SVP Technology and moves to Metsä Board from the position of UPM's Project Director. As of October 1, 2022 Ojala will work as Project Director in the pre-engineering project of the Metsä Board Kaskinen folding boxboard mill.
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TAPPI News
Early bird rates end October 3 for the educational networking event.
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October 7 is the final day for underrepresented students in the pulp, paper, tissue, packaging and converting industry to apply for three $1,000 scholarships.
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Early-bird discounts can help save $1000 or more!
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Get your registration and room ready for important annual training and networking in St. Petersburg.
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Dow is looking for applications to fill the position of an Application Technology Leader in Collegeville, PA or Midland, MI. Are you interested? If so, apply today.
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