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Good Month
UPM, May 2013
Well-known speaker manufacturer Genelec has chosen UPM’s biocomposite as the material for their new high-end speaker model. The speaker enclosure is manufactured from renewable cellulose fiber-based UPM ForMi.
Kruger, May 2013
According to The Telegram, Kruger’s Corner Brook, NF, paper mill got another financial boost from the provincial government in March, when the provincial cabinet quietly extended a tax exemption until at least 2017 worth around $6 million. The government waived the “managed land tax” for a period of five years, through to 2016/17.
Kimberly-Clark, May 2013
Kimberly-Clark has been ranked No. 18 among the “100 Best Corporate Citizens,” the company’s fifth straight year in the top 20 on the list published this week in the current issue of Corporate Responsibility Magazine. The annual listing credited Kimberly-Clark’s strengths in categories such as corporate governance, environment and human rights.
Bad Month
Gunns, May 2013
The administrator of Australian timber firm Gunns has opted to sell off about 200,000 ha of its plantation interests piecemeal, as it has been unable to find a buyer willing to take them over as a whole. The interests in question are the administration of private timber managed investment schemes (MIS), an Australian investment vehicle that sees investors or “growers” sink their money into the produce of plantations, rather than the real estate itself.
Solombalsky, May 2013
Russia’s Solombalsky pulp and paper mill is set to slash 974 jobs at its mill in the Arkhangelsk region, which employs a total of 1,216 people, from July 10. This will affect blue collar as well as white collar employees, the firm said.
Harbor Paper, May 2013
Harbor Paper will not restart full production in mid-April as planned. Owner Cesar Scolari told employees they will be postponing their start up.
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Reflections from Tissue World 2013
STARNBERG, GERMANY, April 1, 2013 (RISI) -The biannual Tissue World Conference and Exhibition celebrated its 20thanniversary last month. Instead of being held in the Acropolis Convention and Exhibition Centre of Nice, where this main event traditionally used to be located, it took place in the new and spacious Fira de Barcelona Convention Centre in Gran Via, Barcelona.
Further capacity closures likely in the Western European coated mechanical market
BEDFORD, MA, March 25, 2013 (RISI) -Following a relatively mild 3% decline in 2011, the losses in European demand for coated mechanical gained momentum, plummeting 9% in 2012. Undermined by the weak economy and a further retreat in print advertising, coated mechanical demand was also hit by grade switching in 2012 as some consumers downgraded to lower-cost SC grades.
Biofuels: the race to come second?
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, March 18, 2013 (RISI) -I have spent a bit of time recently looking outside of the pulp and paper industry, basically gauging what other opportunities there are for industry players and investigating the ones we keep hearing about - for example biofuels.
What’s trending in Chinese graphic papers?
BEIJING, March 11, 2013 (RISI) -RISI has just finished a special market analysis,China's Influence on World Graphic Paper Markets in the Coming Decade, which is the first special market analysis study of China's graphic paper market from the perspective of end us
Price offensive by European recycled containerboard producers
BRUSSELS, March 4, 2013 (RISI) -Price offensive by European recycled containerboard producers
Feeding China's appetite for recovered paper
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, Feb. 11, 2013 (RISI) -According to the latest trade data, Chinese imports posted another big increase and peaked at 30 million tonnes in 2012.
APP draws a complete halt to deforestation
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Feb. 5, 2013 (RISI) -This comes to you straight after the event in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, where Asia Pulp & Paper has announced a complete end to the clearing of any natural forests from across its supply chain, from immediate effect. This includes all of the company's suppliers across the board.
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