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Byline: Hannah Abdulla The Renewcell facility will repurpose over 120,000 metric tonnes of textile waste next year, otherwise destined for landfills, and turn it into new viscose for fashion. Renewcell [...]

An overview of Hunan Tiger Forest & Paper's operations is presented. The company started the construction of a mill after being granted a government license in December 2005 and after laying the foundation stone in with an approved investment of RMB 4.25 million. The effect of the use of Andritz technologies in meeting high environmental requirements is also discussed.

Mercer International has started a new 552, 000 tonne/yr market pulp mill, Zellstoff Stendal in Arneburge, Germany. The complete details of the new mill's production operations are presented.

Kalimanis group subsidiary Kiani Kertas has built a 525,000 mt/y pulp plant in the at Mangkajang in the Berau district in Indonesia. Planning on the project began in the late 1980s, and in Oct 1996, still before the scheduled start of production at the end of 1st qtr 1997, the decision was made to expand production to 730,000 mt/y by 1999. A detailed examination of the plant's equipment and processes is provided., DEBOTTLENECKING IS AN everyday part of mill life as companies strive for that extra bit of capacity that will help them reduce their cost/ton figures and ensure they are efficient [...]

Kerinci, Indonesia-based Raja Garuda Mas' gigantic Riaupulp market pulp complex was opened in Feb 1995. There are plans to add a second hardwood fiberline that will open at an undisclosed time and will increase capacity by 1 million metric tons of pulp per year (mtpy). The facility is expected to produce 600,000 mtpy in 1996 and will expand to 2 million mtpy when the second facility is completed. A printing/writing papers mill is expected to produce 600,000 mtpy and will be completely operational by Oct 1998., ONLY TWO YEARS AFTER CONSTRUCTION began on Raja Garuda Mas' (RGM) mammoth Riaupulp market pulp complex at Kerinci--located in the Riau province of Sumatra, Indonesia--the mill began producing fully bleached [...]

The process control equipment and process information systems at the Korsnas AB pulp mill in Gavle, Sweden, allows maximum performance of the mill's pulping line. This makes the mill the best in its class in terms of utilizing process controls and process information in its operations. Company officials view process controls and process information as an essential component of the mill's business and manufacturing strategies., Pulp line that frequently changes between hardwood and softwood production optimized to meet manufacturing, business strategies INCREASING COMPETITION IN THE PULP AND PAPER industry forces us to look at the [...]

In today's capital conscious industrial environment, manufacturers are eager to reduce both costs and interruption of operations or production. A southeastern U.S. pulp and paper mill needed to rebuild the [...]

Weyerhaeuser Co's paper mill in Longview, WA, will shut down its 12 old batch digesters, three bleach plants and three washing lines in fall of 1995. By that time, a new 1,200-tpd continuous kraft fiberline will be fully operational, alternating between hardwood and softwood elemental chlorine-free pulp. Installation of the fiberline cost $400 million and is part of Weyerhaeuser's modernization projects at its three pulp and paper mills in North America., New 1,200-tpd kraft fiberline at Washington State mill will swing production between hardwood and softwood pulp Editor's Note: This is the second part of a two-part series describing Weyerhaeuser Co.'s [...]

Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries' greenfield bleached kraft market pulp mill in Atlanta, GA, is scheduled to be completed in Jul 1993. The greenfield mill boasts of the world's largest single fiberline functioning at a 500,000 metric ton annual capacity. Startup is expected by Sep 1, 1993 with a 100% hardwood production for at least one year before partly shifting to softwood production. The Alberta-Pacific mill is a joint venture of Crestbrook Forest Industries Ltd, MC Forest Investment Inc and Kanzaki Paper Canada Inc., Construction is being completed this month at the C$1.3-billion Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries greenfield bleached kraft market pulp mill in Boyle, Alta., east of Athabasca. Claiming the world's largest single fiberline [...]

Reduced TRS and SO[sub.2] emissions and increased production result from new low-odor boiler, ancillary equipment, and distributed control system Louisiana-Pacific Corp.'s new $70-million recovery island at its Samoa, Calif, market [...]

Praxair reported the start-up of a new 125 tons per day non-cryogenic vacuum-pressure-swing-adsorption plant at the Montes del Plata pulp mill. Under a long-term contract, Praxair will supply gaseous oxygen [...]

Visy Paper adds a pulp line to its mill in New South Wales. It is the company's first venture into pulp production, and the first new mill in Australia in at least twenty years.

Woodpulp production in New Zealand is presently carried out at six mills in New Zealand. Kawerau and Kinleith are world-scale integrated pulp and paper mills, although both produce market pulp. [...]

The story of the Zellstoff and Papierfabrik Rosenthal non-integrated market pulp mill is one of rags to riches, as Bridget Thomas explains The pulp mill formerly known as Zellstoff und [...]

The Cenibra mill will soon be pushing another 350,000 ton/yr of ECF pulp onto the world market. It may also switch to TCF production. October could see the first eucalyptus [...]

The Gold River Pulp Mill of Canadian Pacific Forest products Ltd., located in Gold River, B.C., recently underwent a planned shutdown for the purpose of overhauling its recovery boiler. The [...]

European pulp suppliers are exploring long-term options for a wholesale shift in production to Latin America as they aim to reduce costs and increase productivity. The move is likely to [...]

Sodra Cell has increased its research and development bill by 50% to fund two projects at Chalmers Institute of Technology and a centre at its own Varo pulp mill. Karin [...]

Sodra Cell aims to establish a world-leading research centre on the site of the Sodra Cell Varo pulp mill. The company's existing r&d units at Sodra Cell Morrum and Sodra [...]

M-real's environmental-related investments rose 86% to pounds 36m (EUR56m) during 2001, according to the group's Environmental Report for last year. As part of the investment outlined, a pounds 17.5m project [...]

GEORGIA-PACIFIC says it will permanently close a pulp mill and associated chemical plant at Bellingham, WA. The operations had been temporarily idled since December due to high electric power costs. [...]

FMC BIOPOLYMER is investing $30 million to expand its capacity for microcrystalline cellulose over the next three years. The company plans to add approximately 5,400 metric tons of its Avicel [...]

Potlatch Corp. recently completed its eight-year, $525 million expansion and modernization project for its Cloquet, MN-based pulp mill. The improvements will more than double the mill's pulp production from 560 [...]

Kartonsan has gone back to the drawing board with its plan to build a new cartonboard machine at the Izmit mill in Turkey. The company had developed an outline scheme [...]

Mercer International is set to invest in a 550,000 ton/yr kraft pulp mill in Germany, which could lead to the company exiting papermaking altogether to concentrate on pulp. Mercer has [...]

A stainless steel continuous digester installed at the Monsteras mill of Sodra Cell AB, Sweden. Today's digesters use solid duplex (ferritic-austenitic) stainless steel, which provides the combined advantages of low [...]

Ahlstrom Machinery will install its 100th FibreFlow(r) Drum Pulper to Haindl Papier GmbH & Co.'s Schongau mill in Germany. The 800 mtpy pulper, the fourth bought by the group, will [...]

Sodra has pumped a lot of money into its Monsteras mill. It was risky. It cost a small fortune. But the company hopes that it will all be worth it [...]

* SWEDEN The Swedish premier, Goran Persson, inaugurated Sodra's new, state-of-the-art sawmill at Monsteras. The new sawmill is the first to be built in Sweden in 25 years and has [...]

AssiDoman has invested in a rebuild of PM 2 at its Pitea mill in Lovholmen, Sweden. Voith Sulzer supplied a new press section for the machine, which was installed by [...]

The Uzbek government and German company, Unionmatex, are to build a cotton-based pulp mill in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The Fergana plant will have two pulp lines, each with a capacity of [...]

Carriera Cooperativa Rivalta recently splashed our on an upgrade of PM 1 at its mill near Verona, Italy. The rebuild involved work on the forming and press sections and was [...]

Votorantim Celulose e Papel (VCP) finally looks set to go forward with a new bleached eucalyptus pulp line at the Jacarei mill. The 300,000 ton/yr project comprises a new fiber [...]

Chinese and Thai officials have showed renewed interest in reviving plans to build a $1,200 million pulp mill in Thailand. The joint venture project was one of the items on [...]

PT Tanjungenim Lestari Pulp in southern Sumatra, Indonesia, is expected to begin trial runs by the end of the year, with commercially saleable pulp available in first-quarter 2000. Construction began [...]

The Tanjung Enim Lestari pulp mill, in Musi, South Sumatra, is scheduled to start up in October. The 450,000 tonnes-per-year mill is a TCF operation. The mill will meet all [...]

Kimberly-Clark Corp. will invest C$33 million at its bleached kraft market pulp mill in Pictou, N. S. The company will rebuild the mill's recovery boiler, upgrade the electrical turbine generator, [...]

With its financing near completion, long-awaited recycled newsprint mill will consume New York's waste paper and waste water One of the world's largest urban forests may finally be harvested and [...]

Stora Enso Oyj said it plans to build a new 500,000 mtpy bleached birch pulp line in Imatra in eastern Finland at a cost of $385 million, replacing a 1950s [...]