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China tends to be a dominant figure in the literature on global land grabbing. It is either cast as a major land grabber in distant places such as Africa, or as a key player in crop booms elsewhere because it provides for massive market demand, such as for soya from South America. These are all important issues and are well covered in the literature. However, the crop booms inside China that involve transnational capital and investors - and have provoked conflict around land politics - have been overlooked. Spotlighting the issue of land grabbing inside China reminds us that capital accumulation is principally interested in geographies and settings where it can generate profit - regardless of nationalities, boundaries, structural or institutional conditions. This paper hopes to contribute towards a more refined picture of global land grabbing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents news briefs related to forest research as of September 1, 2018. Topics discussed include Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the forest company Stora Enso; adoption of strategy for Nordic bioeconomy; and need for sustainability in governance of bioenergy production.

This section presents a calendar of events for the plastic film and sheeting industry from October 2010 to April 2012 and an overview of patents by several companies in the industry, including the International Polyolefins Conference 2011 in Houston, Texas on February 27 to March 2, 2011, patent for an improved mixed matrix membrane from UOP LLC, and the patent for heat-sealable packaging material from Stora Enso Oyj.

This work presents the current waste management system at the pulp and paper mill complex of Stora Enso Oyj Veitsiluoto Mills at Kemi, Northern Finland. This paper covers examples of case studies carried out at the mill and describes how the wastes and by-products are utilized as a neutralizing agent for acidic wastewaters (i.e., green liquor dregs from the causticizing process), as a hardener in filling mine cavities (i.e., ash from the fluidized bed boiler), as a landscaping agent (i.e., ash as well as the fibre clay from chemical wastewater treatment plant), as a hydraulic barrier material for landfills (i.e., fibre clay), and as a soil enrichment agent (i.e., calcium carbonate from the precipitated calcium carbonate plant). In addition, the wood waste from the wood-handling plant, sawmill, packaging pallet plant and from the groundwood mill, as well as the biosludge from the biological wastewater treatment plant, are all incinerated in the fluidized bed boiler for energy production. Due to effective utilization of the solid wastes generated at the mills, the annual amount of waste to be disposed of in the landfill has decreased between 1994 and 2004 from 42,990 to 6083tonn (expressed as wet weight). The paper also gives an overview of the relevant European Union legislation on the forest industry and on waste management, as well as of the pulping process and of the generation of major solid wastes in the pulp and paper mills. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Changing patterns of correlations between the historical average June–November Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and October–March precipitation totals for 84 climate divisions in the western US indicate a large amount of variability in SOI/precipitation relations on decadal time scales. Correlations of western US precipitation with SOI and other indices of tropical El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) processes were much weaker from 1920 to 1950 than during recent decades. This variability in teleconnections is associated with the character of tropical air–sea interactions as indexed by the number of out-of-phase SOI/tropical sea surface temperature (SST) episodes, and with decadal variability in the North Pacific Ocean as indexed by the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). ENSO teleconnections with precipitation in the western US are strong when SOI and NINO3 are out-of-phase and PDO is negative. ENSO teleconnections are weak when SOI and NINO3 are weakly correlated and PDO is positive. Decadal modes of tropical and North Pacific Ocean climate variability are important indicators of periods when ENSO indices, like SOI, can be used as reliable predictors of winter precipitation in the US. Copyright © 1999 Royal Meteorological Society [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stora Enso is building a new €21 million combined heat and power (CHP) plant at Zdírec Sawmill in the Czech Republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Montes del Plata, the Stora Enso and Arauco joint venture company, will build a new 1.3 million tonnes per year pulp mill at Punta Pereira, in Colonia, Uruguay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stora Enso, Metso and Domtar have signed a research and development cooperation agreement to establish a consortium to develop a pulp mill biorefinery. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Stora Enso is restarting production at its Sunila pulp mill in Kotka, Finland, following an upturn in the pulp market. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Stora Enso is resuming production at its Enocell pulp mill in Uimaharju, eastern Finland because of an improvement in market conditions since the summer. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Stora Enso is planning to reduce its high-cost manufacturing base in Finland due to on-going weak demand. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Stora Enso has decided to defer its final decision regarding the proposed pulp and paper mill project at Nizhny Novgorod in Russia to a later date due to the weak global financial situation and near-term outlook for the forest products industry. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Stora Enso has started a feasibility study for an integrated pulp and paper mill in the Nizhny Novgorod region in Russia. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Neste Oil and Stora Enso are to jointly develop technology for producing new-generation biofuels from wood residues to replace fossil fuels and cut greenhouse gases. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

In orders worth more than €30 million, Metso Paper will supply Stora Enso''s Varkaus mill in Finland with an extensive rebuild of its PM 3 fine paper machine. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Stora Enso has signed an agreement with Shandong Huatai Paper to form a publication paper company in China. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Stora Enso will upgrade and modernise board machine 2 (BM2) at its Fors Mill in Sweden, in order to improve product quality and cost efficiency, and increase production flexibility. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Stora Enso is planning to rebuild boiler number 2 at its newsprint mill in Hylte, Sweden. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Stora Enso is starting a joint venture with Shandong Huatai Paper of China. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Metso Paper will supply Stora Enso''s Kvarnsveden mill in Sweden with a new production line for high-quality SC paper. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Stora Enso will upgrade and modernize the paper machine and increase sheeting capacity at its fine paper mill in Suzhou, China. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Kvaerner Power has signed a contract worth more than €100 million for the supply of equipment, machinery and services to Stora Enso''s Skoghall Mill in Sweden. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Stora Enso is to upgrade and modernize one of its paper machines at its publication paper mill at Summa, Finland. The number two machine manufactures magazine and improved newsprint papers. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Under a €8 million order, Metso Paper will supply new brown stock process equipment for the Stora Enso Nymo¨lla Mill in southern Sweden.This is a short news story only. Visit www.worldpumps.com for the latest pump industry news. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]