Billerud has appointed Jaakko Nikkilä as President of Billerud Europe and member of the Group Management Team. Mr Nikkilä will assume his new role from 1 May 2025. He succeeds Matthew Hirst, who will ...

US investment company Strategic Value Partners (SVP) has extended the acceptance period for its offer made to acquire Swedish ...

Austria's Mayr-Melnhof group will part with Tann Group and exit tipping paper business. Mayr-Melnhof (MM) announced it had agreed with Indonesia's Evergreen Hill Enterprise on the sale of 100 per cent ...

Jackson Wijaya is taking control of APP group from his father Oei Tjie Goan. The European Commission has approved the takeover of Asia Pulp & Paper Group by Jackson Wijaya Limantara. Jackson Wijaya ...

The second public consultation for Metsä Tissue’s new tissue mill in Goole in Britain was successfully concluded in November 2024. Metsä now aims to submit the planning application to the East Riding ...

The market for starch products is tough for suppliers as well as buyers. Both starch manufacturers and paper producers have faced intense competition for more than a year. Many starch plants and paper ...

As the year 2024 draws to a close, recovered paper (RCP) prices in Germany are sliding again. For ordinary RCP grades prices are anticipated to tumble by €10-20/t in December while smaller reductions ...

Prices on the market for recycled corrugated case material have stabilised for the time being. In October, however, players expect more pressure on prices for brown grades, as supply swells due to new ...

On the German market for label paper, the hoped-for upswing in the fourth quarter did not materialise. A few paper producers surveyed by EUWID did notice a slight recovery in November, but many ...

Black Friday and Christmas sales did not make themselves felt very much on the UK market until mid-November. As a result, the fourth quarter was weaker than many players in UK’s packaging paper and ...

Label paper suppliers are reporting largely solid demand at the end of the second quarter and the start of the third quarter. While quite a few sources said they were still very pleased with workloads ...

December 2024 saw further declines in recovered paper prices across Europe, particularly for ordinary and corrugated grades. This was due to continued widespread downtime in the paper industry, which ...