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BRAZIL Air Products Polymers has announced plans to build a vinyl acetate-ethylene (VAE) emulsions facility in Brazil. The company already has manufacturing sites in Germany, Mexico, Korea and the USA. Construction of the new plant should kick off in 2001 and Air Products Polymers expects the site to come on stream by 2003. The new plant is the company's second foray into Brazil as Air Products Polymers has already acquired Quimica da Bahia from Camaçari.
FINLAND Tervakoski has ordered a rectifier roll headbox with ModuleJet dilution technology and a DuoShake unit from Voith Sulzer. The new equipment is part of an upgrade planned for PM 12 early next year. The project is aimed at improving the cross direction (CD) profile of the machine. PM 12 produces 140 tons/day of specialty woodfree paper in a basis weight range of 31-60 g/m‰. The current operating speed of PM 12 is 560 m/min, but Tervakoski aims to increase the speed to 750 m/min.
FINLAND BASF has chosen a seaport in the south of Finland called Harnina as the site for its proposed paper coating dispersions plant. The company chose the site as it offers good transport links and is close to several of BASF's main customers. The new plant is due to come on stream in 2002 and will have a capacity of 140,000 tons/yr of paper coating dispersions. BASF also plans to formulate other paper chemicals at the site.
FINLAND The Finnish Forest Certification Council has awarded its third forest certificate to the South Savo (Etelä-Savo) region at the beginning of December. The Union of Forest Management in North Karelia was also due to receive its certification in December, taking the total certified forest area in Finland to 10 million ha.
Finnish trees make the grade
FRANCE UPM-Kymmene has ordered an ABB Smart Advisor system for PM 1 at its Stracel mill near Strasbourg, France. The Finnish producer is set to upgrade the machine in a move to create a new type of paper for offset printing. This will be one of the first times that ABB has supplied the Smart advisor system and an Ulma Nti web inspection system to the same site. The system alerts the operator to the source of sheet breaks and is scheduled for installation at the end of February 2000.
SOUTH AFRICA Sappi is inviting entries for its Millennium Printer of the Year Award. Two copies of each entry should be sent to Sappi before 28 January 2000. The categories for entry are annual reports, books, brochures, calendars and posters, magazines and general printing, labels and packaging. The winning entries will receive their awards at a gala dinner to be held on the eve of the Drupa 2000 event.
Sappi looks out for the Millennium European Printer of the Year
SWITZERLAND Perlen has ordered a roll handling and wrapping system from Lamb for its new 150,000 ton/yr swing machine, PM 4. Once the newsprint rolls leave the winder they will be separated on a sorting deck and then transported to the wrapping line. Before wrapping, a bar code label is checked and recorded with a bar code wand. The rolls will then be weighed, measured, labeled and wrapped according to end-user. Output will be sold locally or for export.
UK Conservation Communications, the specialist environmental consultancy, is to publish a briefing on the impact of genetic engineering (GE) in forests on the pulp and paper industry this month. The briefing describes scientific developments in GE forestry and reviews current commercial development of GE forestry as well as giving an economic analysis of GE impacts through the paper supply chain.
URUGUAY Ence is part of an international group of investors that have formed a new company to look at the feasibility of a new transport terminal and industrial estate in Uruguay. The proposed development, the Terminal Logística e Industrial M'Bopicuá, is to be built in the Río Negro area of Uruguay and will form a central hub for rail, road and maritime transport.
USA Efibre.com has launched the first internet auction site designed to connect buyers and sellers of papermaking fibers. The site will provide a central market to buy and sell market pulp, off-grade pulp and pulp substitutes. It is primarily aimed at the off-grade or spot market. In addition to acting as a market place for papermaking fibers, registered members will have access to industry news items, stock quotes and pulp future prices, as well as links to related sites.
USA Testing Machines Incorporated (TMI) has strengthened its position in Europe through its recent acquisition of the UK's Messmer Instruments and Büchel van der Korput in the Netherlands. The North American manufacturer of specialized testing instruments hopes that the union of Messmer and Büchel will bring additional resources to the company, facilitating TMI's future acquisitions.
USA Potlatch has chosen Kvaerner Chemetics to install two new systems at its Cloquet mill in Minnesota, USA. The first system is due for startup in February 2000 and is designed to control and treat malodorous gases. The system will help the Potlatch mill to comply with environmental legislation. The second contract involves upgrading the existing Millwide Information System, which was supplied to Potlatch in 1998. The enhanced system is required for a new pulp line, which is due to start up at the mill in December 2000.
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