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CANADA/US The Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST) and the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (PAPRICAN) have signed an agreement to explore the potential of working together. The institutes have liaised with each other since the 1920s, but now they have pledged to pool their efforts to find solutions to industry problems.
FRANCE Group'Hygiene, the association for producers of disposable tissue products has launched a website, www.grouphygiene.org. The site provides information on the French market for the full range of tissue products. The trade association also plans to launch an English language version of the site shortly.
FINLAND Metso Corporation aims to introduce new names for all its business areas this month. The company's automation and control technology arm, Neles Automation, will be renamed Metso Automation. Valmet will trade as Metso Paper, Metso Minerals is the new name for Nordberg, and the former Santasalo and Valmet Automotive divisions will be reborn as Metso Engineering.
GERMANY Papierfabrik Palm has chosen CTS Engineering to take complete charge of the engineering work for a huge new greenfield paper mill, which will be built in Wörth, Germany. The new PM will produce 600,000 tonnes/yr of containerboard and is due to kick into action in October 2002.
GERMANY BTG Pulp and Paper Technology has acquired Muetek Analytic of Germany. The new partnership believes that by joining forces, it will become a technological leader in wet end solutions. While BTG supplies process manufacturing technology for the pulp and paper industry, Muetek is a market leader in laboratory and online charge management.
SWEDEN ABS has reorganized itself along three lines, water and wastewater, building services and industry. The largest division, water and wastewater, focuses on wastewater and sewage treatment, as well as on water handling applications such as water supply, flood protection and dewatering pumps.
US Paperloop.com has launched a bimonthly electronic newsletter called "Paper eNews". The editorial focus of the newsletter is e-business developments in the pulp and paper industry, as well as related converting and forest products industries.
US Great Northern Paper's mill in Millinocket, Maine, will soon have its own supply of precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) on tap. Specialty Minerals is building the company a satellite plant with the capacity to produce 50,000-70,000 tons/yr of PCC. Great Northern Paper hopes to see the unit up and running by the third quarter of 2001.
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