Pulp & Paper Industry

Paper Pulp

RBC highlights paper products news for the week (May 23): Sylvamo announces dividend and share repurchase program; Canfor Pulp extends curtailment at Taylor pulp mill in British Columbia; Stora Enso sells three Russian corrugated packaging plants
RBC Capital Markets LLC (05/26)

Metsa Fibre's Rauma pulp mill in Finland to take downtime for maintenance June 3-13; about 900 external workers will work at mill during maintenance shutdown in addition to Metsa Fiber's own employees
M-Brain Nordic News (05/26)

Canada-based heavy-haul logistics company Allen's Transport purchases 24,500-sq-ft facility in San Angelo, Texas, to serve as US headquarters, adding 20 jobs; company services petrochemical, mining, pulp and paper, refinery and generator stations
San Angelo Standard-Times (05/26)

Cellulose/Specialty Cellulose

Lenzing co-develops unique fabric made of new hemp-based Tencel and Coreva yarns from Candiani Denim, an Italian textile company; Coreva yarns are made by wrapping cotton around rubber, providing stretchable denim that is soft, plastic-free, biodegradable
Lenzing AG (05/26)

Aalto University becomes a founding shareholder in Ioncell, which aims to have 5%-10% share of global textile fiber market worth over €200B; Ioncell fibers are 'proven to be better' than cotton, current cellulosic fibers, are recyclable, biodegradable
Aalto University (05/26)

Uncoated Freesheet (UCFS)

European graphic paper shipments down 11.1% year-over-year to 1.95 million tonnes in March 2022, while newsprint shipments fall 11%; coated and uncoated mechanical down 18.8% and 11.9%, while coated and uncoated woodfree down 4.6% and 10%: Euro-Graph
European Association of Graphic Paper Producers (Euro-Graph) (05/26)

Exports of paper, paperboard from India jump nearly 80% in fiscal year 2021-2022, reaching record 139.63B Indian rupees; exports of coated paper, paperboard up by 100%, uncoated writing, printing paper by 98%, tissue paper by 75%, kraft paper by 37%: IPMA
Accord Fintech (05/26)

Global printing-writing papers demand turns negative in March, falling 4.0%, with all grades declining, but some pockets of strength remain for certain grades in some areas; prices largely increase in April, though stable in US except for SC hike: EMGE
Industry Intelligence Inc. (05/26)

Labels, Tags & Pressure-Sensitives

Coca-Cola’s bottled water brand Bonaqua launches label-less bottled water across Hong Kong; design uses fewer packaging materials and improves bottle recyclability, uses laser incising technology to highlight product information on the bottle
Media Outreach Newswire (05/26)

Videojet Technologies, Loftware announce strategic partnership to change how companies automate printing across production lines, factories, warehouses; collaboration will extend Loftware's Spectrum Enterprise Labeling solution to marking, coding
Videojet Technologies Inc. (05/26)

SCREEN celebrates 200th installation of its Truepress Jet L350UV Series press at Tennessee-based Hickman Label in February 2022; press will allow Hickman to expand into a full-service label production operation, build new 30,000-sq.-ft. facility
SCREEN GP Americas, LLC (05/26)

Recovered Paper

Domtar charters its own ocean freighter to transport 43 dryer cans, other equipment from China to South Carolina port to avoid monthslong delay of its Kingsport, Tennessee, mill conversion project; mill will produce recycled linerboard, corrugating medium
Domtar Corp. (05/26)

APRIL wins Singapore Business Review National Business Award in manufacturing category for its waste paper recycling initiatives under its 'Paper Once More!' Circular Economy campaign, which has collected, recycled over 156.4 million sheets of paper
PR Newswire (05/26)

Paper Packaging

Commentary: 2021 was exceptional year for Europe's paper packaging industry; while growth has cooled, trajectory still going up amid boom in shelf-ready packaging, green wave and paper packaging innovations such as Smurfit Kappa's childproof detergent box
Packaging Europe (05/26)

Wisconsin-based Green Bay Packaging holds ribbon cutting ceremony for new US$90M, 540,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing center, 28,000-sq.-ft. office building in Tulsa, Oklahoma; company 'about 75% of the way at our start-up curve' for the facility, says official
Tulsa World (05/26)

More than half of UK consumers would pay more for environmentally friendly packaging when buying clothes, accessories online; 76% say fashion brands aren’t doing enough to reduce plastic, 67% want to see greater use of paper-based packaging: survey
Aquapak Polymers Ltd. (05/26)

Feminine Hygiene

Nigerian groups call for inclusion of women and girls with disabilities in menstrual health and hygiene management policies; government should provide sanitary materials, boost awareness on menstrual hygiene to add confidence and reduce school absenteeism
Nigeria News Digest (05/26)

Femtech company SOS installs 14 of its interactive vending machines at Jacksonville Jaguars' TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida, to provide access to personal care products; all menstrual care products will be complimentary from SOS machines
Digital Signage Today (05/26)

Wipes/Towelettes

TikToker Abbie Herbert partners with Beaubble to launch new brand, Pavot, with two products; Body Water is a lightweight, hydrating body serum, while Calming Clouds treatment pads have exfoliants to treat ingrown hairs, razor burn on legs and bikini area
Happi (05/26)

Thorne HealthTech relaunches Gut Health Test with biodegradable polymer microbiome wipe that breaks down in provided testing solution while preserving user DNA; first-of-its-kind test eliminates stool sampling, is comparable to commercial DNA/RNA kits
Thorne HealthTech (05/26)

Fabrics/Textiles

Global medical nonwoven disposables market to hit US$29.8B by 2026, growing at 6.8% CAGR on competitive pricing compared to woven fabrics, increase of infectious diseases, surgeries; US has largest share at 34%, followed by China, which grows at 8.6% CAGR
Globe Newswire (05/26)

Filter

Scientists develop electrospun nanofiber air filters for high-efficiency particulate removal, made with tea leaf extract, polyvinyl alcohol, carbon nanoparticles; filters exhibit 'excellent' low pressure drop at 110 Pa, about 99.2% removal efficiencies
Nature: Scientific Reports (05/26)

Nonwoven

Spunlace snapshot: Glatfelter expects spunlace business to turn to profitable in Q2, with US$1M improvements from pricing-related actions, US$3M from operational improvements, synergies; CEO sees segment accelerating innovation in plant-based feedstocks
Industry Intelligence Inc. (05/26)

Sellen James Investments completes US$1.36M purchase of former Thomasville, North Carolina, nonwovens plant from Custom Nonwoven; buyer shares same business address as Conover-based Fibrix, and property acquired totals 5.89 acres
Winston-Salem Journal (05/26)

Packaging Machinery & Technology

Canada-based Husky introduces revolutionary HyPET HPP5e Recycled Melt to Preform system, which merges preform injection molding system with melt decontamination unit enabling closed-loop conversion of washed flake to preform packaging
Husky Technologies (05/26)

Pulpwood

A total of 85.1 million m3 of roundwood was consumed in Finland in 2021, most of it (72.2 million m3) processed by forest industries; wood products sector consumed 30.4 million m3 of roundwood, pulp sector consumed 41.8 million m3 of raw wood: Luke
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) (05/26)

Latest: May, 26 2022