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

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 ...

Cartonboard and folding carton manufacturer Mayr-Melnhof (MM) is planning further investments in its German cartonboard mill MM Gernsbach. There will also be personnel changes in the mill's management ...

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 ...

Turkish company Kipas Kagit has started trial runs on its new corrugated case material machine at the Söke mill in western Turkey. Commercial production has not yet started, though. The company told ...

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 ...

After the German tissue manufacturer Wepa, Arnsberg, installed a new tissue machine at its plant in Bridgend, Wales, in 2022, the company now also wants to replace the existing older tissue machine ...

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 ...

Sophie Haan, EVP, Protective Materials division and member of the Executive Leadership Team has decided to leave Ahlstrom to pursue a career opportunity outside the company. She will stay in her ...

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 ...

German tissue paper mills responding to EUWID’s year-end survey report largely satisfactory capacity utilisation. While the German paper industry is on the whole confronted by protracted consumer ...