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Valmeteers Celebrate Grand Opening of Center of Excellence for Process Parts in North America

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Thursday, June 22, 2023 - Member
Cristini
Colleagues, customers, and key stakeholders recently came together to host a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony for our new Center of Excellence for Valmet Process Parts in North America.
 
Stora Enso Announces Restructuring Measures, Including Closures and Employee Cuts
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A.Celli Starts Up the Paper Rewinder Supplied to Arctic Paper Kostrzyn
Thanks to the exceptional collaboration between the two companies, the E-WIND® P80 rewinder was successfully started up in record time in the Kostrzyn plant (Poland).
 
Nuclear Energy in the Pulp and Paper Industry Workshop Announced
Industry pros will explore Nuclear Energy in the Pulp and Paper Industry at a workshop taking place July 25 and 26 from 8:30 to 5:30 ET at the Epri Office, 1300 West W.T. Harris Blvd, Charlotte, North Carolina.
 
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NSK Americas®
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From The Experts
AF&PA Details U.S. Paper Production and Capacity Trends
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) released the 63rd Paper Industry Capacity and Fiber Consumption Survey. The report provides detailed data on U.S. paper industry capacity and production compiled by AF&PA’s statistics team.
 
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Market Roundup
Billerud Sees Lower Second Quarter Result than Current Market Expectations
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AF&PA Releases May 2023 Printing-Writing Monthly Report
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) released the May 2023 Printing-Writing Monthly report.
 
Merichem Company
Pulp & Paper
Valmet to Deliver Pulp Technology for DS Smith in Portugal
Valmet has received an order for a new recovery boiler and an upgrade of the existing evaporation system for DS Smith Viana pulp and paper mill in Portugal. The delivery projects are scheduled to start up during the first half of 2025.
 
Norske Skog Bruck is Now Producing Strato Testliner and Strato Fluting on PM 3
Norske Skog announced that the newly converted paper machine, PM 3, at Bruck Mill in Styria, Austria, is now producing Strato Testliner and Fluting.
 
Bracell Begins Site Work for New Tissue Mill in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bracell announced the start of civil works for the largest tissue mill in Latin America. The unit is being built next to Bracell's pulp mill in Lencois Paulista (SP).
 
VPK Group Launches Paper Machine in Normandy
The industrial site in Alizay, acquired in June 2022, has been converted by VPK into a sustainable development hub for circular economy. The group invested 200 million euros in the site to convert the existing paper machine into a recycled paper production unit based on carbon-free energy. The site strengthens VPK's position in the French and European markets through higher vertical integration.
 
UPG Unified Purchasing Group
Containerboard/Packaging
AF&PA Releases May 2023 Packaging Papers Monthly Report
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) released the May 2023 Packaging Papers Monthly report.
 
Cardway Cartons Installs BOBST Folder-Gluer at Alsager Facility in the UK
Staffordshire-based designer and manufacturer of corrugated packaging, Cardway Cartons Ltd, has boosted production capacity and expanded its offering with the installation of the BOBST EXPERTFOLD 165 at its 55,000 sq ft Alsager facility.
 
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Hydro-Thermal Corp®
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Celebration Packaging Adds Sustainable Bamboo Fibre Cups to its EnviroWare Range
Celebration Packaging has introduced a new range of double-wall hot drink cups made from sustainable bamboo fibre, under its long-established EnviroWare brand.
 
Augury Inc
Sustainability
Voith Continues its Sustainable Growth Path
The Voith Group achieved significant gains in the first six months (October 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023) of the current fiscal year 2022/23 despite a market environment that continues to be challenging. Voith increased both its sales and EBIT in all Group Divisions.
 
Sappi's Gratkorn Mill Expanding Use of Biomass for Renewable Energy
As part of Sappi Europe's full scale decarbonisation roadmap, Gratkorn mill in Graz, Austria, is expanding the share of biomass to be used as an energy source, further driving the move away from fossil fuels as part of the mill's contribution to the European roadmap.
 
Metsä Tissue Joins "Modellfabrik Papier in Düren" Research Network in Germany

Metsä Tissue announced that it will become a shareholder of "Modellfabrik Papier in Düren," in Germany, effective July 1, 2023. Founded in 2020, Modellfabrik is a society for research and development for sustainable paper technologies.

 
EMAS-Certified for 15 Years: Progroup Paper Mill Again Awarded European Environmental Label
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Keit Spectrometers
People
OPTIMA Appoints Brandon Hall as Director Consumer in the U.S.
Brandon Hall has been the new Director Consumer at Optima subsidiary Optima Machinery Corporation in Green Bay, WI since mid-June. Optima is thus strengthening its sales of filling and packaging equipment for the consumer goods market in North America and taking account of the positive growth in the Consumer business unit.
 
SUN Automation Group Welcomes Two New Members to the Senior Leadership Team
SUN Automation Group® (SUN), a global leader in providing innovative solutions to the global corrugated industry, is proud to announce two well-deserved promotions within its organization to expand its Senior Leadership Team.
 
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Make yourself a more valuable employee and broaden your awareness of how one part of the process affects other operations.
 
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