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March 9, 2020

Swedish firm Södra delivers biomethanol to Danish biodiesel maker

Södra has built the world’s first plant for commercial biomethanol, a sustainable fuel from forest biomass, at its pulp mill in Mönsterås, Sweden. An initial pilot […]
February 28, 2020

Mondi invests billions of rand in projects !

Paper and packaging group Mondi plans to spend billions of rand  in expanding its manufacturing plants despite falling prices for paper and pulp grades weighing down […]
February 12, 2020

Great News from FINLAND… The strike is over in Finland’s pulp and paper industry – Workers resume operations.

After two weeks of strike, employees at the Finnish mills of UPM, Stora Enso and other pulp and paper companies are going back to work. A […]
February 12, 2020

Global shipping has been hit by the Coronavirus. Now goods are getting stranded, Freight prices likely to rise !!

Shipping companies that carry goods from China to the rest of the world say they are reducing the number of seaborne vessels, as measures to stop […]
February 3, 2020

As China’s waste paper imports slow, its disruption of global pulp & paper sector accelerates

China steps up foreign acquisitions and pulp, paper and board imports, as RCP exporters scramble. BOSTON, Since 2017, China’s crackdown on waste paper imports has reconfigured the global […]
February 3, 2020

Strikes at pulp and paper mills started in Finland, mediation to continue… Wood Pulp prices likely to go up !

WIDESPREAD STRIKES began this morning in the pulp and paper industry an unsuccessful last-minute attempt to mediate a settlement to the labor dispute between Finnish Forest […]
December 19, 2019

SBP allows import advance payment facility for manufacturers against LCs

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has allowed banks to make advance payment up to 50 per cent of the value of imports against letter of credit […]
December 16, 2019

A New Use for Wheat Straw in North America’s First Tree-Free Paper Pulp Mill

With the rising demand for more sustainable packaging products, Columbia Pulp, North America’s first tree-free paper pulp mill, is using agricultural waste—wheat straw—to fill the gap. The […]