SCA is increasing its degree of self-sufficiency in electricity for its own industry by acquiring Fasikan Vind AB, a wind power project located on SCA's land in the Bräcke municipality of Jämtland County. The seller is Arise AB.
Ilim Group presented to Chinese partners its new pulp and paperboard mill (the KLB Mill) in Ust-Ilimsk, Russia. The Mill's output will reach 600 thousand tons of kraftliner per year. Thereby, Ilim's aggregate exports to China will surge to 2.4 million tons per year.
Metsä Group is conducting a pre-study related to the construction of a first commercial mill for producing Muoto packaging products on its Rauma mill site, Finland. The goal is to determine the mill's technical feasibility and economic profitability.
The number of UPM employees affected is 401. Graphic paper production on the two machines is expected to end on 15 November (PM 11) and on 22 November (PM 1), reducing the coated and uncoated publication paper capacity by 595,000 tonnes in Europe.
Andritz has received an order from the pulp and paper producer The Navigator Company to supply a new recovery boiler, new ash leaching system and an upgrade of the non-condensable gases (NCG) collection and incineration system for its pulp mill in Setúbal, Portugal.
