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Few investments in packaging grades in recent years have been as well thought out as St. Regis' new PM 3 testliner machine at Kemsley, near Sittingbourne in Kent, UK. For, [...]

High-quality niche products are the keys to success at Kyro, where the first phase of a total board machine rebuild has just been completed. THE REBUILD OF the wet end [...]

Making money from paper was a problem for many pulp and papermakers last year, as increased sales failed to compensate for low prices. Heide Matussek, Amanda Marcus and John Pearson [...]

The Enocell joint venture at Uimaharju is truly a pulp mill for the 1990s, using the latest cooking technology to offer both ECF and TCF pulp grades to the market. [...]

John Pearson visited central Finland to see the first big supercalendered papers machine to be equipped with a gap former. Higher quality, new grades and new end-uses are all direct [...]

John Pearson reviews the latest deinking systems and lists the latest installations of flotation deinking systems worldwide. An analysis of world wastepaper recovery and utilization rates is included. CONSUMER DEMAND [...]

There is not much pleasure in being proved right when the subject of the prophecy is so thoroughly negative. In last year's top 150 listing we reported still-rising sales but [...]

THE PORTUGUESE explorers who set off over 500 years ago to map out the world are collectively known as the Navigators. With this romantic image as part of the national [...]

The predators turn into poodles THE 1990s HAVE NOT started well for the pulp and paper industry. One result is that some of the acquisitive sharks are now looking rather [...]

Enso's BM 2 aims at graphics sector Output from Enso-Gutzeit's rebuilt board machine No. 2 at Kaukopaa will be targeted mainly on Western Europe. John Pearson has visited the mill [...]

Pace of growth starts to slow down Although the sales and earnings of the world's Top 150 pulp and paper companies set new records in 1989, their rate of growth [...]

Kaipola invests in waste-based news UNITED PAPER MILLS' Kaipola mill seems to make a specialty out of smooth startups. In 1987, it started up PM 6, a 220,000-ton/yr lightweight coated [...]

DEINKING EQUIPMENT DEMAND INCREASES AS MORE MILLS STUDY WASTEPAPER USE Wastepaper looks set to become an increasingly important part of the papermaking furnish during the 1990s. Currently, worldwide wastepaper consumption [...]

EXPENDITURE ON ELECTRONIC data-processiol (EDP) systems is never easy to justify in concrete terms. For while the benefits of improviol information flow in a mill (greater production control, better customer [...]

His year's survey of the pulp market finds the industry in a more depressed state than at any time for the past eight years. Recession in key markets, low demand, [...]

John Pearson reports on the new thermomechanical pulp line at Holtzmann's Maxau mill in Germany. Quality considerations and environmental imperatives were the basis for the investment. GERMANY IS widely accepted [...]

This month marks the startup of the first installation of a brand new batch kraft pulping process, Enerbatch. Focus of attention is the Nettingsdorf integrated kraftliner and semichemical fluting mill [...]

JUHOSLOVENSKE CELULOZKY a Papeirne's Sturovo mill occupies an impressive 108-ha site beside the River Danube, just across the water from Hungary and the historic town of Esztergom. Today, the tide [...]

CHANGE IS ON the agenda for Severoceske Papirny's (Sepap) Steti mill, about one-and-a-half hour's drive northwest of Prague. The mill, which has a product line of market pulp, newsprint and [...]

OVER THE NEXT three years, three new world-class supercalendered (SC) paper machines will start up in Europe. The locations of the first two will come as no surprise - UPM [...]

HIGH-VOLUME, capital-intensive industries like pulp and paper are not known for their rapid responses to market demand. Yet the market pulp industry in 1992 is reacting fast to the new [...]

Environment is the new challenge John Pearson reports on the findings of PPI's Market Pulp Survey. Production levels have decreased from their 1989 highs. Meanwhile, there has been a slowdown [...]

UPM focuses on Jamsankoski SC PM THE MERGER OF United Paper Mills with Rauma-Repola to form the Repola Corporation has created a papermaking group which ranks among the Top 15 [...]

Kemi starts state-of-the-art line John Pearson reports on a new [O.sub.2] delignification line and four-stage bleach plant at Metsa-Botnia's Kemi Mills in north-west Finland. It forms part of a major [...]

MM aims output at growing market Taking advantage of rapid consumption growth rates, MM Karton has recently started up a new cartonboard machine, the first new PM dedicated to these [...]

Paper machine clothing: Emphasis is on better dewatering and low marking THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT of dewatering technology is placing new demands on paper machine clothing. As in previous years, PPI [...]

Enso is focussing on the EEC WITH A RECESSION gathering pace at home, Finland's Enso-Gutzeit is out on the acquisition trail in the European Community, according to chairman and chief [...]

LN0037 INVESTMENT IN NEW pulp and paper production capacity is slowing down markedly, according to the results of PPI's worldwide Capacity Investment Survey, Capinvest. The survey shows that plans for [...]

Capacity buildup remains a problem John Pearson examines the current supply-demand balance in Western Europe's tissue markets, and also takes a look at some of the most recent technological trends [...]

Kymi gives birth to new generation WITH THE STARTUP of its new 115,000-ton/yr PM 7 at Kuusankoski, Finland's Kymi Paper Mills has launched a new type of product onto the [...]

Indah Kiat on course for a million WITH THE STARTUP of a new 500-ton/day bleached pulp line based on mixed tropical hardwoods at its Riau mill in Sumatra, Indonesia's Indah [...]

Tampella moves into coated papers LAST DECEMBER, Tampella's Anjala mill took its first steps into the coated printing paper markets. The mill's PM 2 was replaced by a new 5.4-m [...]

Drive is towards higher quality IN THE FIRST of these special surveys (PPI February 1989, p. 59), we examined some key trends in felt and fabric design for the paper [...]

Demands on deinking equipment rise WASTEPAPER LOOKS set to become an increasingly important part of the papermaking furnish during the 1990s. Currently, wastepaper consumption is around 31% of total paper [...]

PM 2 boosts Shotton's market position SHOTTON PAPER Company has built up an enviable reputation as a producer of high-quality newsprint. Starting up in May 1985, with a capacity of [...]

Profits soar in another record year The financial performance of the pulp and paper industry goes from strength to strength. Last year the Top 150 companies broke all sales and [...]

Soviets start biggest expansion ever Within the next five years, the USSR plans to raise per capita consumption of P&B from 37.5 to 60-70 kg. Joint ventures with foreign companies [...]

WORLD PAPER PRODUCTION HITS RECORD LEVEL FOR SIXTH YEAR IN A ROW Yet another year of record output by the world's pulp, paper, and board producers, 1988 was the sixth [...]

Japan has rarely been out of the news in the past years, and often for the wrong reasons. Falling output and consumption, economic and political difficulties, have colored the picture, [...]

COMPLETE PULP MILL rebuilds are few and far between in these days of recession and poor market conditions. But many mills have well-advanced plans for modernization and expansion, and some [...]

RAISING THE DRY-SOLIDS content of black liquor fired in the recovery boiler has long been an objective of pulp producers for several reasons. First, it allows the capacity of the [...]

GOOD ROLL MAINTENANCE is fundamental to the efficient running of any paper machine. For example, problems with rolls in the press section are among the most common causes of downtime, [...]

Faster and wider paper machines, new technology in the press and drying sections, and changes in the furnish - all place demands on machine clothing. John Pearson rounds up some [...]

WILLAMETTE INDUSTRIES' Marlborough Mill in Bennettsville, South Carolina, has come on line faster and at less cost than any other new mill in the USA, according to plant manager Jim [...]

John Pearson visits the town of Ruzomberok in the Slovak republic to report on the installation of a new paper machine at SCP Celpap, which has completed the integration of [...]

Some of the West's most well-known pulp and paper producers are taking a long hard look at Poland as a target for their next investment. John Pearson examines the reasons [...]