(Germany) AkzoNobel is reinforcing its Specialty Chemicals portfolio by acquiring businesses in Europe and Asia. The company has signed two agreements which will strengthen both its paper and polymer chemicals activities. The first deal involves AkzoNobel’s Pulp & Paper Chemicals business...
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(USA) Abitibi-Bowater plans to shed an additional $250-million of assets as it deals with slumping demand for paper and a heavy debt load. North America's largest newsprint maker put a South Korean paper mill up for sale as part of larger drive to shore up its balance sheets and staunch losses.
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(USA) Some Chinese producers of lightweight thermal paper face duties of nearly 133 percent imposed by the U.S. Department of Commerce because the agency found evidence that the firms exported the products into the country at prices below fair value...
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(Russia) Russian domestic log prices fell sharply in the 1Q 2008 from their peak in the 4Q of last year, according to the market report Wood Resource Quarterly. Pine sawlog prices declined 22%, softwood pulpwood prices were down 20% and hardwood pulpwood costs fell just over 15%...
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(Germany) Akzo Nobel, the world's biggest paint company, said its pulp and paper chemicals business, Eka Chemicals, is acquiring Levasil, the silica sol coating business of Germany's H.C. Starck Group. In a separate deal, Akzo Nobel's polymer chemicals unit has agreed to buy two organic peroxide
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(USA) After a successful selling season in the fall focusing in the mid-Atlantic area, Hampton Paper Designs (http://www.hamptonpaperdesigns.com) will be making its national debut at the National Stationery Show, May 18 - 21, 2008 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.
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(USA) Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. has reported a first quarter 2008 net loss of $1.2 million compared with net income of $4.2 million during the first quarter of 2007. The diluted loss per share was $0.08 compared with diluted earnings per share of $0.27 in the prior-year...
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(Sweden) In northeastern Russia, the paper and board manufacturer Mondi is launching an ambitious rebuild and modernisation programme at its pulp and paper mill. Sweco has been given responsibility for architecture, structural engineering and construction management...
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(Kazakhstan) Kazakhstan Kagazy PLC, owner of Central Asia’s largest producer of paper, corrugated board and packaging products and one of the leading industrial real estate development companies in the country, has announced its summary preliminary...
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