(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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(Sweden) Swedish paper manufacturer, Grycksbo Paper, is to invest 130 million SEK (approx $21.5m) to install a biomass boiler, which will meet the paper mill’s entire need for steam when it comes on-line during the second half of 2009...
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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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(Vietnam) Paper and pulp imports increased sharply in the first four months of 2008, while big paper plants are running at full capacity. However, paper processing companies still complain that they cannot buy paper for production.
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(Portugal) Angolan state-owned oil company Sonangol is mulling acquiring a stake in Portuguese paper maker Portucel - Empresa Produtora de Pasta e Papel, SA, Diario Economico reported, citing a source close to Sonangol.
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(USA) Pope & Talbot Inc. has announced that its Halsey pulp mill has begun shutdown procedures and is expected to close by the weekend, according to Mark Rossolo, a spokesman for the company. The shutdown affects 180 employees, the company said.
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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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(USA) World demand for printing and writing paper grades will show virtually no growth in 2008 and then show marginal expansion through 2010, according to a forecast by the Printing and Writing Papers Association.
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(USA) International Paper doesn’t know when it will restart operations at the containerboard mill in Vicksburg, Miss., that was idled after a recovery boiler explosion on Saturday, May 3, killed one worker and injured 17 others, all contractors.
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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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(Canada) AbitibiBowater Inc, the largest North American newsprint maker, on Thursday posted a wider first-quarter loss, hurt by poor results from its newsprint, specialty papers and wood products businesses.
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(Norway) Norwegian papermaker Norske Skog reported a bigger-than-forecast drop in core earnings for the first quarter on Thursday, hit by weak demand in North America and Europe.
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(Sweden) Holmen AB said its first quarter pretax profit fell 33 percent to 383 million Swedish crowns, hit by weakening prices and demand for newsprint in Europe, and slowing demand for virgin fibre board.
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