Södra held a ceremony in Mönsterås, Sweden, to mark the start of construction of the company's new kraft lignin plant. The new plant will cover an area of 1,400 m2 and be built on a prepared site at Södra's existing combined facility in Mönsterås.

Motion Industries announced the opening of its first Canadian Motion Conveyance Solutions shop. The new facility, located at 100-10725 74 St. SE, Calgary, Alberta, officially opened its doors on May 1, 2025. This strategic location is designed to enhance Motion's ability to serve customers' growing needs across Western Canada.

UPM Specialty Papers will invest over 10 million euros in the modernization of UPM Tervasaari mill in Valkeakoski, Finland. The investment will allow UPM Specialty Papers to boost capacity and improve production stability in its highly specialized products, such as glassines and flexible packaging papers.

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) and Fibre Box Association (FBA) today announced an update to their “Voluntary Standard For Repulping and Recycling Coated or Treated Corrugated Fiberboard and its Equivalents in the Old Corrugated Containers (OCC) Recycling Stream.”

Truist Financial (NYSE:TFC) Corporation provided insights into the recent trends in containerboard pricing within Italy and Spain. The analysis followed RISI’s weekly PPI Europe publication, which reported on paper pricing in these countries.

Chongqing Longjing Paper Co., Ltd. has successfully started up the first ANDRITZ PrimeLineHyTAD tissue machine. This start-up not only marks a milestone for premium tissue production in China but also ANDRITZ’s breakthrough with this technology in the industry.

Valmet is to deliver a furnace upgrade, along with a long-term service agreement, to Eren Holding’s Shotton Mill in the UK. The furnace upgrade will be delivered by the end of 2025.

WEPA Group announced plans to install a new tissue paper machine, along with two converting lines, at the company's production site in the town of Bridgend, South Wales, UK. A complete modernization of the palletizing of finished products at the facility is also part of the project.

Valmet is to supply a complete Valmet Advantage DCT 200 tissue line to the Turkish tissue manufacturer Lila Group’s new mill in Erzurum, in the eastern part of Turkey. The TM 5 line will be equipped with stock preparation, a rewinder, and an extensive automation package to achieve high efficiency and low energy consumption in production.

Valmet will deliver an additive feeding system upgrade and a redundant steam reduction station system to Hamburger Containerboard Dunaújvaros in Hungary. Together, the deliveries will support the customer in their long-term plant development targets by improving the power boiler availability and environmental performance, as well as enabling participation in the growing electricity reserve market, respectively.

Ahlstrom, a global leader in fiber-based specialty materials, has completed its acquisition of the Stevens Point facility in Wisconsin, USA. 

Stora Enso has received the prestigious Red Dot Design Award 2025 in the Product Design category for its recyclable and scalable gift packaging portfolio developed for Finnish design house Marimekko.

Nationwide Boiler Inc., a leading provider of boiler solutions, is proud to highlight two of the most robust and versatile trailer-mounted boilers in their rental fleet: the 150,000 pph High-Pressure Saturated Steam Boiler and the 110,000 pph High-Pressure Superheated Steam Boiler. These mobile watertube boilers are engineered to deliver reliable, high-capacity steam for a wide range of industrial applications, all while meeting stringent emissions and efficiency standards.

INX International has added a valuable new universal lamination system to its sustainable inks portfolio. Introduced at FORUM INFOFLEX earlier this month, Innova PlusÔ NCF nitrocellulose-free flexographic inks deliver the same trusted performance across all flexible packaging solutions as Innova Plus does but without the nitrocellulose, making it ideal for recycling purposes.

Following extended technical, commercial and strategic evaluations, UPM plans to discontinue the development of its potential second biomass-to-fuels refinery at the Port of Rotterdam. As a result, UPM plans to halt all engineering work related to the CAPEX investment in Rotterdam and to withdraw from all site-related commitments associated with the Rotterdam investment.

As a recognized research center, Innofibre – Cellulosic Innovation Centre is actively participating in the national campaign to promote the bioeconomy in Canada, led by Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC). 

Brüel & Kjær Vibro (B&K Vibro), one of the leading worldwide suppliers of condition monitoring and protection solutions for industrial machinery, has named Victor Castro as its new CEO.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America (MHIA) Corrugating Machinery Division (CMD) is pleased to announce two key leadership transitions supporting the company’s vision for continued growth and innovation across North America.

Metsä Fibre announced the appointment of Timo Ahonen as Senior Vice President, Pulp Production and a member of Metsä Fibre's Management Team, effective August 1, 2025. He will report to CEO Ismo Nousiainen.

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