The importance of forest certification
Paul Bicho, PhD Manager, optimisation and innovation, Canfor Pulp Innovation
When it comes to sustainability, we focus on reducing our environmental impact by streamlining manufacturing...
New technology for the circular economy
Paul Bicho, PhD Manager, optimization and innovation, Canfor Pulp Innovation
We have a vision to be a leader in the circular economy and have embarked...
UPM TAKES A STEP CHANGE AS A PULP SUPPLIER INVESTING IN A WORLD-CLASS...
Sari Hörkkö, Director, stakeholder relations
US$2.7bn mill investment and a US$350m boost to port and local logistics will increase pulp production capacity by more than...
State-of-the-art mill to produce premium pulp
Sari Hörkkö, Director, stakeholder relations
The new pulp mill has been created as an efficient single-line operation representing state-of-the-art design in the pulp industry. The machines,...
Efficient wood supply and logistics
Sari Hörkkö, Director, stakeholder relations
Availability of sustainably sourced eucalyptus wood for the new mill is secured through UPM’s plantations on its own and leased...
Significant economic boost
Sari Hörkkö, Director, stakeholder relations
Based on independent socioeconomic impact studies, the new pulp mill is estimated to increase Uruguay’s gross national product by about...
Long term commitment in sustainable eucalyptus plantations
Sari Hörkkö, Director, stakeholder relations
In Uruguay UPM today operates a eucalyptus pulp mill in the southwestern town of Fray Bentos, as well as a...
UPM Euca pulp for versatile tissue products
Sari Hörkkö, Director, stakeholder relations
The Fray Bentos pulp mill started operations in 2007. Its annual production capacity is 1.3 million tonnes of eucalyptus pulp,...
A PILOT MACHINE PARTNERSHIP FINE TUNES THE FURNISH MIX TO OPTIMISE QUALITY AND...
Peter Carlsson, Technical product manager, Södra
As the quest for cost efficiency without compromise on performance continues, how far can tissue producers be engaging their...
Sustainable Product Sales Growing Three Times Faster Than Consumer-packaged Goods Market as a Whole
As awareness of the climate crisis increases across the world – especially among millennials - environmentally-friendly production and delivery expected to grow to $140.5bn market by 2023. Report by...
Kemira KemView™ Gen II Sheet Structure Analyser for tissue
By Kemira’s Clay Campbell, global business development, senior mgr. Kemira, and Lucyna Pawlowska, tissue process application specialist, Kemira
Clay Campbell Senior manager, Global business...
The right chemistry to lower your pulp costs
By Mark Christopher, global market development manager – Tissue, Buckman, Daniel Glover, innovation director – Pulp & Paper, Buckman
Daniel Glover Innovation director – Pulp...
The Challenge – to find a high quality and industry compatible bioplastic
Plastic – hundreds of millions of tonnes of it every year – has been intrinsic to tissue product packaging. So the urgently needed bioplasticreplacement...
Pre-stretched film tensioned and tough enough for jumbo roll protection
Marco Cirigliano, sales and application engineer, outlines why FIS Impianti’s new generation wrap is critical to preserve paper quality, hygiene, and avoid contamination.
Proving flexibility and speed can coexist for today’s converters
The escalating demands of today’s converting market continue to increase pressure on converters. Factors like trade wars, pulp prices, and global markets create external...
Converting technical theme 2019 will be rich in projects to find the leading edge
In terms of optimal maintenance and process, analysing what the machines are telling us gives enormous added-value. TWM asked the world’s leading converting machinery suppliers – Fabio Perini, Futura,...
Paper Machine Technical Theme: Industry 4.0 – energy – cost optimisation – high-quality grades...
Top companies highlight their ongoing advances in technology. A TWM report.
TWM/1: What have been the most important technical developments...
Metsä Fibre’s most recent ambitious development project aims to increase its competences in the...
The Northern softwood pulp supplied by Metsä Fibre in its Botnia-branded products are used as raw material for a range of fibre-based paper and board products, and products based on refined wood-based...
Driving home the message – products from sustainable forests do make sense for consumers...
In October, Södra was awarded the “Best Sustainable Project/Social Category” at the Sofidel Suppliers Sustainability Award. The award acknowledged the pulp supplier’s “Act of a hero” marketing campaign, which encourages the conscious...
TISSUE MARKET ANALYSIS 2018
By Knut Omholt, Södra’s market research manager
There are now several events within the pulp and paper business that are influencing the softwood pulp market globally and in Europe specifically. Firstly, we have the...
