Valmet will supply a paper machine wet end rebuild for the Kirkniemi mill of Sappi Finland Operations Oy in Finland. The start-up of the rebuilt machine is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016.
The owners of bankrupt Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC might have found a buyer to operate one of the mill's paper machines, but who that is and where the operation would occur is not clear from bankruptcy court documents filed this week.
RR Donnelley has decided on the new names for the separate businesses that will be created when the group completes its three-way split later this year.
For years Hollywood has been telling us that we will someday be able to commute and make long distance trips, a la George Jetson, with our feet propped up on our dashboards and without a care in the world. It seems like science fiction but several large manufacturers and tech firms are working hard to make it a reality. How could this affect the paper industry and other companies that rely on trucks to deliver their products around the country? The answer may surprise you.
Los Angeles-based Industrial Realty Group paid $70.5 million Tuesday for the Federal Way campus of Weyerhaeuser and says it plans to sell off large pieces for redevelopment.
The agency ruled that China, Brazil, Indonesia, Australia and Portugal have violated U.S. trade laws and "materially injured" U.S. paper manufacturers by dumping uncoated paper into the United States "at less than fair market value."
The president and CEO of Madison Paper Industries said Tuesday he can't confirm the details of a potential months-long curtailment at the paper mill, saying only that while production at the mill is down, the situation is changing on a weekly basis and layoffs have been avoided.
The investment will double the production capacity for its polyacrylamide powders used in a wide variety of water-based industries including the pulp, paper, oil and gas, chemical processing, mining, biorefining, power and municipal markets.
