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Sappi’s Somerset mill in Maine looks to hook up with proposed gas pipeline extension as part of upgrades [From the web]
Sappi Fine Paper North America's plan to hook into a proposed natural gas pipeline would be the latest move in its effort to reduce its carbon footprint and the company is performing an engineering study that would show how effective that move would be. The company proposing More
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European Commission awards grant of over Euro 400,000 for Metsä Tissue's sustainable low carbon tissue manufacturing project
Metsä Tissue has been awarded a grant of over €400 000 by the European Commission as part of its Sustainable Industry Low Carbon (SILC) Scheme. Metsä Tissue is participating in the scheme with its Sustainable Low Carbon Tissue Manufacturing Project. The project's main target is to analyse More
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Metsä Tissue says investing in energy efficiency saving 16% of the targeted 20% by end of 2012
Since the start-up of the Tissue 20 project, Metsä Tissue has successfully implemented more than 300 practical improvements related to energy efficiency. Actions taken so far have already achieved a total saving comparable to 16 per cent of the targeted 20 per cent. Launched in 2008, Metsä More
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UPM invests Euro 85 million to build new combined heat and power plant at its Schongau mill in Germany
UPM continues to invest in efficient energy generation and builds a new combined heat and power plant at the UPM Schongau mill in Germany. The target is to significantly reduce energy costs as well as to secure the energy supply. The total investment is EUR 85 million. More
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Papierfabrik August Koehler establishes new subsidiary Koehler Renewable Energy in Germany
On January 23, 2012 the directors of Koehler Holding GmbH & Co. KG and the management board of Papierfabrik August Koehler AG (Oberkirch) established a new subsidiary of Koehler Holding GmbH & Co. KG and filed for its entry in the trade register. The company's name is More
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Mercer International to make NAFTA claim over energy operations at Castlegar mill in BC; says unfair treatment costs C$19M in energy sales per year
Mercer International Inc. today served a Notice of Intent to Submit a Claim to Arbitration (the "Notice") on the Government of Canada for breaches by it of its obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement ("NAFTA"). Under NAFTA, Mercer's investments in Canada are to be treated More
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Hadera Paper signs 15-year natural gas purchase agreement that may total about $750 million
Hadera Paper Ltd. (hereinafter: "The Company") does hereby announce that an Agreement was signed on January 25, 2012, between the Company and the partners in the Tamar Project (footnote 1), (hereinafter: - "Tamar") pursuant to which, subject to having met the preconditions stipulated in the Agreement, the More
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AF&PA statement on EPA Boiler MACT letter to senator: "businesses need the certainty of achievable rules to comply"
American Forest & Paper Association President and CEO Donna Harman today issued the following statement regarding Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson's letter to Sen. Wyden regarding U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman's decision to vacate EPA's stay of the March 2011 Boiler MACT rules. "EPA More
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Mercer upgrade for Stendal mill in Germany to include new 40 MW steam turbine; pulp capacity to increase by 30,000 tonnes/yr
Mercer International Inc. today announced a project ("Project Blue Mill") to increase production and efficiency through debottlenecking initiatives including the installation of an additional 40 MW steam turbine at its Stendal mill. The debottlenecking which, among other things, requires the new turbine in order to enhance and More
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Alberta Newsprint idles mill on two days as electricity rates hit thresholds, alarm province’s industries [From the web]
You can hear it on the floor of AltaSteel's east Edmonton mill when the hourly price of electricity spikes. Virtually everything goes quiet. For almost two full days this week, there was no jet engine-like roar from the massive furnace, no crackle of melting scrap metal and More
