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In this issue of Disconnected Comparisons, we evaluate Stora Enso and Sonoco.

This decline is mainly due to weak sales volumes in its division MM Board & Paper, which the Company had already cautioned about earlier this year.

The equipment provided by Andritz will be used on the new paper machine, due to start up mid-2025, that will provide a range of paper grades for the FMCG and e-commerce sectors serviced by DS Smith.

The new OPL site is specifically designed to support paper manufacturers in automation, digitalization and achieving their sustainability goals.

Start-up is scheduled for the Q1 2024.

The delivery projects are scheduled to start up during the first half of 2025.

It allows customers and partners to conduct trials for producing nonwovens from recycled and/or natural fibers such as hemp, flax, and cotton.

Valmet will deliver a comprehensive recovery boiler upgrade to Fibre Excellence Provence mill in Tarascon, Southern France. The upgrade will have a significant impact on the performance of the customer's recovery boiler, according to Valmet.

Konecranes has acquired the industrial crane service operations of Norway's Munck Cranes AS, giving it access to new customers and a large installed base of Munck's industrial cranes in Norway and beyond.

Jari Vähäpesola, the current Business Line President, Paper, has decided to retire after a long, successful career at Valmet as of December 1, 2023.

The Forest Appeals Commission issued a $343,495 penalty for a fire sparked in logging debris left by the company near Nazko in central B.C.

Chemical manufacturer 3M Co. will pay at least $10.3 billion to settle lawsuits over contamination of many U.S. public drinking water systems with potentially harmful compounds used in firefighting foam and a host of consumer products, the company said on Jun. 22.

Funds will support City's infrastructure recovery, help community rebuild.

A dissenting judge called the bankruptcy an illegitimate "shell game".

To continuously improve resource efficiency, Mercer International installed new debarking system to reduce wood losses. This system was installed during the mill's annual maintenance shutdown in September 2022 by a Finnish supplier. The new system controls the debarking process so that as little bark as necessary is removed from the log.

Suzano is building a nursery with the capacity to produce 35 million eucalyptus seedlings per year that will meet the demand of the massive forest of its new factory in Ribas do Rio Pardo, Brazil.

New Indy attorneys went before a federal judge on Tuesday to push to have one of the many lawsuits against them dismissed.

With a joint investment of approximately Euro 29 million by Stora Enso and Tetra Pak, a new recycling line for post-consumer beverage cartons is starting operations in Poland.

Ahlstrom further broadens its range of release papers by introducing new products that support the design of more sustainable double-sided Pressure Sensitive Adhesive (PSA) tapes.

As consumers around the world look to make more sustainable decisions in their day-to-day lives, the move away from single-use plastic bags has been one of the most noticeable packaging trends. Ecobag Network, the largest producer of ecological paper bags in Poland, has recently turned to Stora Enso for a solution that achieves new levels of lightweight strength and production output.

The new strategic partnership will enable both parties to explore new possibilities for the application of VEOCEL™ branded lyocell fibers in flushable nonwoven products to address changing consumer needs.

Survey findings show high rates for employee loyalty, motivation, and likelihood to recommend LP as a place to work.

Proposed amendments to the EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) could add 8.1bn plastic crates to EU transport sector.

Although 2022 was a year of many successes, it was also a year like no other for supply-chain disruptions.

UPM Biochemicals is developing new, climate neutral materials produced from sustainably sourced hardwood that will replace fossil-based materials in multiple applications - from footwear and fashion to furniture and automotive.