The first chips were fed into the digester in the Fray Bentos Botnia pulp mill in Uruguay earlier this month.
The start up process is proceeding fluidly, according to the scheduled plan.
The start up process began when the recovery boiler was turned on with fuel oil in order to generate the necessary high pressured steam to […]

A US forestry company with most of its mills and 1,700 employees in British Columbia has filed for bankruptcy protection - it is the first major corporate failure in what many say is the industry’s worst downturn in memory, according to a report in a local paper.
Portland-based Pope & Talbot filed for protection after failing […]

Europe’s biggest papermaker Stora Enso Oyj plans to cut magazine, newsprint and pulp capacity as well as jobs after reporting a surprise third quarter loss as wood costs soared and the US dollar fell, according to an online report from Bloomberg.
The loss was €439.9 million down from a profit of €58.9 million a year earlier. […]

Former Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said environmental standards at the Gunns’ Tasmanian pulp mill would be the world’s best, but some specialist observers of the cutting-edge Swedish pulp and paper industry doubt his claim, according to a report in Australian newspaper The Age.
Two years ago, three Swedish pulp and paper mills found small traces […]

The Finnish Forest Industries Federation is revamping its network services with the aim of boosting the efficiency of its lobbying activities. The first modernised services have been opened and the totality will be upgraded by the end of this month.
The Federation’s network services have the aim of increasing the effectiveness of lobbying and boosting the […]

The Finnish Forest Industries Federation is revamping its network services with the aim of boosting the efficiency of its lobbying activities. The first modernised services have been opened and the totality will be upgraded by the end of this month.
The Federation’s network services have the aim of increasing the effectiveness of lobbying and boosting the […]