Total forest, paper and packaging (FPP) deal values increased to $27.6 billion in 2007, up $1.9bn on 2006, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Branching Out report.

Tembec has started up a new biomass boiler at the pulp mill in Tartas, France. This €33.8 million investment will supply 85 t/h of steam to the pulp mill which produces 155,000 t of specialty cellulose pulp annually. The fluidised bed boiler will burn biomass from the industrial process, bark and other harvested wood residuals to produce […]

UPM has launched carbon footprint calculations for its paper products to assist its customers to estimate their  
own carbon footprint. Carbon footprint calculations are available for the customers as part of the Paper Profile.

The predicted slowdown in output in the Finnish wood products industry is uppon us because of falling demand for sawn goods and an excess supply of such goods in Europe in particular, according to TTJ, a timber industry magazine.