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NEWS BRIEFS
SCA recently inaugurated its new tissue mill in Sovetsk, in the Tula region of Russia, some 200 km south of Moscow. This is the first greenfield mill in Russia since the 1970s. The machine, supplied by PMT Italia, is 2.8 m wide, running at up to 1800 m/min. Production capacity is 30 000 tonnes/year of recycled-content tissue. There are also two converting lines. www.sca.com. Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc. continues its move into markets beyond paper with its acquisition of LabPrints, a leader in workflow integration for professional photographers and photo labs. Mohawk's i-Tone® papers for the HP Indigo are used by creators, publishers, digital printers and other producers of photo specialties. LabPrints offers an integrated toolset that links photo labs and professional photographers with lab orders through online storefronts and the fulfillment of printed products. www.mohawkpaper.com, www.labprints.com. Holmen Paper Madrid PM 62 set a new world record for newsprint of 2014 m/min on January 25, 2010. During the record run, all critical press felt positions were equipped with Metso Tamfelt fabrics: TMO with a nonwoven base on the pick-up and 1st press positions and a conventional non-woven base felt on the 2nd press shoe position. There was also a Tamfelt BlackBelt shoe press belt on the 2nd shoe press. Tamfelt became a part of Metso as of Dec. 28, 2009. www.metso.com. Hong Kong-based pulp trading company International Grand Investment Corp. was reported to have bought Cascade Pacific Pulp, LLC, Halsey, OR. The Oregonian said the mill, bought in 2008 from bankrupt Pope & Talbot by current-owners Wayzata Investment Partners, a private equity firm, produces over 180,000 tons/year of bleached and unbleached pulp most of which is sold to customers in Asia. IGI became a Delaware-registered company in December, 2009. No price for the transaction was declared but Wayzata bought the mill for $31.2 million at auction. www.cascadepulp.com. Rock-Tenn's Solvay, Syracuse, NY, and St. Paul, MN, containerboard mills have received triple chain-of-custody certification to standards of the Forest Stewardship Council, Sustainable Forestry Initiative¨ and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification. Together, they produce 970,000 tons per year of board. Both mills are also certified to SFI's fiber sourcing procurement require - ments. www.rocktenn.com. Empire State TAPPI and New York/ Canadian PIMA have joined to form Empire State TAPPI/PIMA. The mission of the new organization is to serve individuals working in the pulp and paper, corrugated, nonwovens and packaging industries in the New England area as well as parts of Quebec and Ontario. To formalize the combination, the decision was made by the heritage PIMA officers to gift remaining funds to the University of Quebec at Trois Rivieres, QC, and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse in support of scholarships. Both institutions provide higher education in the engineering and technical aspects of the pulp and paper industry. www.tappi.org. |
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