Absorbent Papers

October 19, 2022

Södra is looking to develop new products from lignin

Södra is the largest forest-owner association in Sweden and an international forest industry group. With raw materials from 52,000 forest owners’ sustainable managed forests, Södra produces […]
October 18, 2022

Håvard Busklein appointed Managing Director at Norske Skog Skogn

Håvard Busklein (38) has been appointed Managing Director at Norske Skog Skogn AS. He has extensive operational knowledge from a number of positions and areas of […]
October 18, 2022

Wood fiber prices continued their upward trend in the 2Q/22

Wood fiber prices continued their two-year upward trend in the 2Q/22, with hardwood increasing faster than softwood. These trends are reflected in WRI’s two global wood […]
September 9, 2022

Paper Excellence announces Croften Paper mill curtailment

Paper Excellence recently announced a production curtailment at its Crofton paper facility.  The curtailment will coincide with the scheduled annual maintenance of key utility assets.  The outage […]
September 9, 2022

Stora Enso acquires Dutch company De Jong Packaging Group

Stora Enso acquires De Jong Packaging Group, based in the Netherlands, for an enterprise value of approximately EUR 1,020 million. This acquisition will advance Stora Enso’s […]
August 26, 2022

Arauco plans to start up new BEK pulp line in late October

Arauco’s MAPA project is close to completion. The new pulp line will have a capacity of 1.56 million tpy of bleached eucalyptus (BEK) pulp, EUWID reports. […]
August 18, 2022

The market for recovered paper is at a new breaking point

The European market for recovered paper (RCP) is facing a rough ride in the months to come. – A price drop of as much as 25 […]
August 18, 2022

Large interest in BillerudKorsnäs’ project in Norway

Earlier this month, Norway’s Prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre and the Minister of Trade and Industry Jan Christian Vestre visited Viken Skog’s Follum mill in Hønefoss The plan of BillerudKorsnäs and […]