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Valmet will supply a grade conversion rebuild for Shangrao City Lulin Paper Co., Ltd. in Shangrao, China. According to Valmet, Shangrao City Lulin Paper plans to increase the capacity of fluting grades it produces and expand the company by building a new greenfield mill.
After being relocated to the site of the new mill, PM 5 be converted to produce fluting grades with a design basis weight range of 60-100 g/m2.
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A.Celli High-speed iDEAL® Tissue Machines, installed at Yibin Paper, a Chinese customer, successfully produce unbleached tissue paper, using 100% Bamboo Slush Pulp.
Four Tissue Machines are currently installed and, after the TM2, started-up last September 15th, also TM3 and TM4 (with a 16’ Yankee) and TM5 (with 18’ Yankee) have been started-up. The operating speed of the first Tissue Machine has been increased to 1500m/min in less than a month.
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Valmet announced that it recently opened new offices in Vietnam, Malaysia and Sapporo, Japan to further strengthen its operation and local presence in Asia Pacific.
"Valmet has a strong position in Asia Pacific. We believe that the new offices and expanded local capabilities allow us to better serve our customers and further strengthen our position in the area,” said Jukka Tiitinen, Area President, Asia Pacific, Valmet.
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Cellwood Machinery said that a Grubbens Vertical Pulper has been successfully commissioned at SCG's Vina Kraft Paper in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam.
The pulper project, which took place in September 2018, involved Cellwood Machinery rebuilding a bale pulper at Vina Kraft Paper's mill. The installation consisted of a new rotor unit 105/84 SF, engineering for internal lead plates, as well as a new drive unit.
Rebuilding the mill's pulper was part of an energy saving project that also resulted in improved pulp quality, Cellwood said.
Vina Kraft Paper Co., Ltd. is the largest packaging paper manufacturer in Vietnam.
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A.Celli Paper is pleased to confirm its ongoing and valuable collaboration with the Chinese group Shanying Huazhong Paper Industry Co., Ltd., enshrined in the agreement for the supply of two latest generation E-WIND® P100 rewinders, for the mill located in Jingzhou District, China.
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Voith announces it will increase prices on paper machine clothing in North America by 3 percent effective February 1, 2019. All orders placed before January 31, 2019 will be invoiced at the current pricing. This price adjustment is driven by notable increases in key raw material costs, combined with global inflationary factors in labor and freight.
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Zhejiang Jingxing Paper has unveiled more details of its pulp and paper making project in Malaysia.
It will invest USD299 million in it , the Jiaxing-based paper maker announced yesterday, following up its initial disclosure in mid-January.
Tentatively to be located in Selangor on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula, the plant has good transport links and is a mere 43 kilometers and 52 km away from the country's largest terminal Port Klang and the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, it said.
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Michelman will celebrate the grand opening of the Michelman (China) Sustainability Center (MSC) on January 17, 2019 at the company’s Shanghai offices located in the East Park of the Shanghai Pudong Kangqiao Industrial Zone. The new China-based Center is part of Michelman’s aggressive growth plan in the Asia Pacific region, and follows the opening of the Michelman Innovation Centre for Coatings (MICC) that was opened in Mumbai in January 2018.
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Stora Enso has chosen six startups to join its second Accelerator Programme, a joint startup initiative organised by Stora Enso, Aalto University Developing Entrepreneurship (Aalto ENT) and Vertical Accelerator.
The Accelerator programme provides an exceptional opportunity for disruptive startups and Stora Enso to actively ideate and innovate new solutions. This year’s programme focuses specifically on the circular economy, especially in regard to circular solutions, raw material management, packaging, separation and sorting, and energy.
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Valmet and Kemira have signed a partnership agreement in developing wastewater and sludge treatment customer applications for municipal and industrial plants in Europe. Reliable real-time measurement data will increase the water treatment process visibility and enable predictive and proactive process management. The target is to bring significant savings and efficiency improvements to customers.
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Metso announced on October 26, 2018 its decision to invest in a new greenfield valve technology center in Jiaxing, China. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new plant took place today. The new technology center will start operations in spring 2020 and will serve the local and global markets.
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IT Tech Packaging, Inc. ("IT Tech Packaging" or the "Company"), a leading manufacturer and distributor of diversified paper products in North China, today announced the commercial launch of tissue paper production, following the completion of construction and equipment installation, the receipt of proper approvals, including wastewater discharge permit, from local authorities, and the success of trial production of its first tissue paper production line (the "PM8 Production Line"). The PM8 Production Line is located at Wei County Industrial Park in Hebei Province, China, with annual production capacity of 15,000 tonnes. The Company also plans to start the construction of another tissue paper production line ("PM9") with annual production capacity of additional 15,000 tonnes in the next several months.
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Shanying International has renamed its first pulp and paper mill in the U.S., Phoenix Paper Wickliffe LLC.
Shanying International, the third-largest producer of containerboard in China, purchased the idled Wickliffe, Kentucky mill earlier this year from Verso Corporation for $16 million. The deal was conducted on behalf of Shanying by China-based investment group, Global Win Wickliffe LLC.
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In the 3Q/18, Chinese importation of hardwood chips reached a record high, and Vietnam substantially increased its shipment as compared to 2017, reports the WRQ. While the average import price has only increased slightly in the past year, Australian prices have gone up substantially from the end of 2017.
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Within the end of 2018 A.Celli Paper will deliver a second high performance E-Wind® P100 rewinder to the customer Dongguan Jintian Paper Co.
In 2017 A.Celli Paper started-up an E-WIND® P100 rewinder at the Sichuan Jintian Paper plant, for a project of 1.2 million-tons producing grey cardboard.
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Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has begun using four AHEAD-2.0L PRODERGY tissue machines at its OKI mill, in South Sumatra, Indonesia, as part of a series of AHEAD-2.0L PRODERGY tissue machines.
These four machines, included in a major contract between Toscotec and APP, started production ahead of schedule, in just 60 days between August 14th and October 14th 2018.
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Stora Enso and Sulapac continue to combat the global problem of plastic waste by launching a demo for sustainable drinking straws at Slush 2018, a leading startup event that gathers 20 000 tech enthusiasts from around the world. The demo, which targets production on an industrial scale, is designed to replace traditional plastic straws with renewable ones. The straws are based on Sulapac’s biocomposite material – made of wood and natural binders – designed to be recycled via industrial composting and biodegrade in marine environments.
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According to Euwid, Suzano commits to dissolve Fibria's exclusive sales agreement with Klabin and transfer assets and business in Europe to Klabin.
The European Commission (EC) approved the acquisition of Brazil's pulp manufacturer Fibria by Suzano pursuant to the EU Merger Regulation. The competition authority says that the decision is conditional on Suzano's full compliance with the commitments offered by it.
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In Henan Province, Xinxiang Xinya Paper Group Co. Ltd holds the first place in the paper industry. The company mainly produces white coated and printing papers. The Group’s production capacity is 800,000 tons per year.
In 2005 A.Celli Paper already supplied the customer with a rewinder AC842 for the PM1 machine with the same characteristics as the one recently sold: suitable for processing medium-high weight paper grades (between 180 and 400 gsm), design speed 2000 mpm and untrimmed roll width of 3420 mm.
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Kemira has received final authority permits and closed the deal announced on September 29, 2017. Kemira has formed a joint venture with an AKD producer in China. Kemira forms a joint venture – Kemira TC Wanfeng Chemicals Yanzhou (“NewCo”) – with Shandong Tiancheng Wanfeng Chemical Technology (“TC Wanfeng”).
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Koppers Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koppers Holdings Inc., recently announced that the company's 75-percent owned subsidiary, Koppers (Jiangsu) Carbon Chemical Company Limited (KJCC) is providing soft pitch product to its major customer in China under a special purchase order in an effort to manage product inventories at the plant in the fourth quarter. The special purchase order will expire at the end of this year. This purchase order is not intended to either resolve or affect the previously disclosed contractual dispute between KJCC and its major customer.
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Nov 07, 2018 (AB Digital via COMTEX) -- Global Paper Machine Clothing Market is expected to grow at a significant CAGR in the upcoming period as the scope and its applications are rising enormously across the globe. Paper Machine Clothing (PMC) is a mechanical equipment that uses high-quality fabric solution to improve the papermaking process. The custom-designed fabrics at the right position improve machine performance and productivity. Reliable and durable dryer fabrics make the papermaking procedure foreseeable and reduce the need for accidental fabric changes. Better fiber retention and drainage, productivity, improved paper properties, and efficacy plays a vital role in PMC.
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To respond to the growing global demand in the valve market, Metso has decided to invest in a new green-field valve technology center in Jiaxing, China. The new-build plant will strengthen Metso's valve and related products production capabilities and increase capacity for customers across various process industries, both in China and globally. Metso expects to invest a total of approx. EUR 10 million by 2020. The new technology center will start operations in spring 2020.
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Hong Kong’s biggest paper maker Lee & Man is opening a new HK$5.1-billion production plant in Malaysia, as it looks to build on its growing presence in Southeast Asia and meet China’s increasing demand for paper.
The new factory in Sepang, also the site of the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix, will allow Lee and Man Paper to expand its capabilities in high-grade packaging paper. At full production, the plant will be able to churn out 700,000 tons of paper and 550,000 tons of pulp.
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Hong Kong’s biggest paper maker is opening a new HK$5.1-billion production plant in Malaysia, as it looks to build on its growing presence in Southeast Asia and meet China’s increasing demand for paper.
The new factory in Sepang, also the site of the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix, will allow Lee and Man Paper to expand its capabilities in high-grade packaging paper. At full production, the plant will be able to churn out 700,000 tons of paper and 550,000 tons of pulp.
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Valmet's delivery of a tissue machine restart package to Xiamen Sin Yang Paper TM 1 in China concluded with the restart of the machine in September 2018, with a speed of 1,100 m/min. The scope of Valmet's delivery included necessary project management, maintenance, spare parts, and the restart of the tissue machine, which was originally delivered by Valmet but had been idle due to market reasons since 2014.
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At the Taison Group site, in Jiujiang, province of Jangxi (China), two A.Celli Model AC882 winders for tissue (PM7 & PM8) have been successfully started-up.
Assembly ended in mid-August, and the two A.Celli E-Wind lines, designed with a speed of 1000 mpm and an untrimmed roll width of 5600 mm, were started-up and put into production in less than one month: the Customer praised the professionalism of the A.Celli Paper Technicians and efficient, smooth start-up of the lines.
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China’s Baosuo Paper Machinery signed an agreement with Karina Trading to supply a SF12-1000 tissue machine with designed capacity of 12,000 tons. The designed operation speed is 1000m/min and sheet width is 2860mm. The supply scope also includes pulp preparation system, water recovery system, automatic control system, etc.
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Recently, the packaging paper market is in a downturn. Nine dragons paper in Dongguan and Tianjin, Chenming Group, Bohui Paper, and Wanguo Paper have successively issued notices of downtime or suspension of delivery, which is regarded as measures to save paper prices.
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Investigation and survey on nine paper companies in Jiangxi provice, China.
The survey shows that large paper companies occupy competitive advantages and continue to push up the operating costs and risks of small and medium-sized paper enterprises. Small and medium-sized paper enterprises need to change their business models and shift capacity to cheaper locationsto reduce costs and increase efficiency.