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Another coniferous pulp plant in Canada announced its plan to stop production
Cariboo Pulp&Paper (CPP), a Canadian pulp company, announced that due to the lack of fiber, the company would cut the pulp production of Quesnel Plant in British Columbia twice in 2023.. The first outage is planned to take place in the middle of April and will last for one month. Then, it wil...Read more -
GP Cellulose will expand the production capacity of fluff pulp
GP Cellulose invested about US $80 million to increase the production capacity of fluff pulp in the Alabama River plant in the United States. The project is being implemented in stages and is expected to be completed by the end of 2023. The Alabama River Plant has two pulp production lines, one o...Read more -
Japan Paper plans to build an EV battery material factory in Hungary
On February 6, it was reported that Japan Paper Company planned to invest billions of days to build a new factory in Hungary to produce carboxymethyl cellulose for lithium-ion batteries of electric vehicles. It is reported that the factory will start operation in December 2024, with an estimated ...Read more -
16000 corrugated cardboard bed orders for the Olympic Games were sent to Japan
According to the report of the Nikkei Chinese website on February 6, the Japanese bedding company Airweave will provide bedding to the Olympic Village for the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. The bed base is made of corrugated paper, which will be reused in France after the Olympic Games....Read more -
The United States launched the third double anti-sunset review investigation on Chinese and Indian banners
On February 1, 2023, the United States Department of Commerce issued an announcement to launch the third anti-dumping sunset review investigation on the imported lined paper school supplies from China and India, and the third anti-subsidy sunset review investigation on the imported lined paper fr...Read more -
Japan’s paper industry considers using wood to produce sustainable aviation fuel
Recently, Japan Paper said in a statement that Japan Paper, Sumitomo Business and Green Earth Research Institute agreed to jointly study the production of bioethanol from wood-based biomass on January 27, 2023. If the project is successful, the project will produce bioethanol from the plant of Ja...Read more -
The pulp price fluctuates again. The Finnish port transport strike affects the supply
Finnish strike The Finnish Industrial Association said that it refused to reach a settlement agreement with employers, so the possibility of a strike in February by Finnish multi-trade unions was further increased. At the same time, the Finnish Transport Workers Association also said that it woul...Read more -
Egypt’s printing, packaging and paper industry exports will grow by 8% in 2022
On January 29, according to the online website of the Egyptian Pyramid newspaper, the Egyptian Printing and Packaging Export Commission announced that the total export value of the printing, packaging and paper industry in 2022 would be 1.063 billion US dollars, an increase of 8% over the export ...Read more -
125-year-old Dutch paper maker applied for bankruptcy
Due to the continuous high cost of energy and raw materials, the Dutch paper maker Crown Van Gelder filed for bankruptcy. Just a few days ago, the Northern Netherlands District Court announced that the enterprise was officially bankrupt. It is reported that the enterprise has 4000 employees and m...Read more -
Corrugated box shipments in the United States decreased by 8.4% in the fourth quarter of 2022
According to the data of the Fiber Box Association, the shipments of cardboard boxes in the United States fell by 8.4% in the fourth quarter of last year, the largest quarterly decline since the second quarter of 2009. Although cardboard boxes seem to be inconspicuous, they can appear in almost e...Read more -
India’s coal ban has brought survival crisis to paper mills in the capital region
On December 26, 2022, the Indian Air Quality Management Commission (CAQM) issued a directive on the comprehensive prohibition of the use, supply, sale and trading of coal in the NCR region of Delhi (the capital municipality of Delhi), which stipulated that the directive would be formally implemen...Read more -
Two NBSK enterprises in Canada announced to stop production due to fiber shortage
The shortage of paper fiber caused by logging restrictions in British Columbia, Canada, is becoming increasingly serious. Earlier this month, Canada’s Canfor Pulp announced that it would permanently close the pulp production line of its Prince George plant in British Columbia. The productio...Read more