International News | Global Pulp & Paper Updates – Paper Advance

Wellpappe Alzenau, a Palm Group packaging plant, has taken a significant step towards sustainability by adding two fully electric Mercedes E-trucks (E-Actros) to its fleet.

Between 2012 and 2022, the number of people in the EU working in the manufacture of paper and paper products industry increased by 10.9%.

A major milestone has been reached in a global innovation project aimed at investigating the feasibility of recycling biogenic CO2 emissions and using it in the manufacturing of household products.

This spring, UPM launched a new service package, UPM Nature Management Services, to provide Finnish forest owners with more options to enhance biodiversity.

Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, inaugurated its upgraded folding boxboard machine in Husum, Sweden, on the 11th of April.

Zeus, the independently owned global packaging group, has announced its acquisition of The Weedon Group, one of the UK’s largest independent integrated corrugated manufacturers.

Seal attests to the Company's environmental, social and ethical responsibility

Announced by Commission President von der Leyen and chaired by Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, the Clean Transition Dialogues’ core aim is to support industry in building a business model fit for a decarbonised economy.

The AI application developed by Metsä Group and CollectiveCrunch for detecting insect damage won the international Innovation of Innovations prize.

The EU Parliament put today its stamp of approval on the EU’s carbon removal certification framework.

The Ence biofactory in Navia will begin its annual technical shutdown on April 8, which will last until April 22, when it will resume its normal activity.

UPM Raflatac’s RafCycle™ recycling service recently won the 2024 Innovator Award for Innovation in a Recovery Technology or Practice at the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) Impact event.

Paris/Stockholm, 09 April 2024. The 4evergreen alliance sets out to increase the recycling rate of fibre-based packaging to 90% by 2030[1].

DS Smith, a leading global manufacturer of fibre-based sustainable packaging solutions, announce a supplier agreement with Jonsac, a Swedish company that produce e-commerce bags from FSC®-certified wooden raw materials

After promising results from the ongoing demonstration phase, Metsä Group has decided to conduct, in parallel with the demo phase, a pre-engineering project related to a possible first commercial-scale factory.

The benefits to standard high-volume recycling mills from including sack kraft paper in the fibre furnish

In the fall of 2024, SCA takes the next step in sustainable timber transports by inaugurating another electric timber truck from Scania.

Metsä Fibre, a Metsä Group company, will start negotiations on possible layoffs due to a long production stoppage caused by a gas explosion at the evaporation plant of the Kemi bioproduct mill on 21 March 2024.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of UPM-Kymmene Corporation took place in Helsinki, Finland, today, 4 April 2024.

Papira® by Stora Enso proudly supports Baiba Glass – literarily. Our fiber-based and fully recyclable cellulose foam makes sure that Baiba’s fragile pieces safely find their way to show rooms and new homes all over the world.

The Board of Ekman & Co AB, the family and employee-owned company headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, is pleased to welcome Allan Morris Recycling (AM Recycling Ltd) of Deeside, Flintshire, North Wales into the Ekman Group.