SAO PAULO, March 27, 2018 (PPI Latin America) –Andreas Birmoser assumed on Feb. 26 the position of CEO at Brazilian bleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK) pulp producer Veracel. The company is a 50/50 joint venture between ...
SAO PAULO, March 27, 2018 (PPI Latin America) –Chilean pulp and paper producer CMPC has concluded a management reorganization of its tissue business in order to get ready for a new expansion cycle. Instead of ...
Chilean P&P exports drop 3% in 2017; climb in January SAO PAULO, March 27, 2018 (PPI Latin America) –The latest statistics released by Chile’s Forest Institute (Infor) show that the country’s pulp and paper exports ...
SAO PAULO, March 27, 2018 (PPI Latin America) –Brazilian bleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK) pulp supplier Eldorado has set a new $10-20/tonne price increase, effective for its April sales. According to the company, the move is ...
SAO PAULO, March 27, 2018 (PPI Latin America) –Brazil’s third largest boxboard producer Ibema has been developing new value-added products in order to remain competitive with a relatively small 140,000 tonnes/yr capacity. The company’s CEO ...
SAO PAULO, March 27, 2018 (PPI Latin America) –Empaques Nova has started up its first containerboard machine at its Umán plant, in Yucatán state, southeastern Mexico. The new 250 m width paper machine (PM) started ...
SAO PAULO, March 27, 2018 (PPI Latin America) –Brazilian packaging paper producers completed the first round of price adjustments this year,PPI Latin Americahas learned. The increases were mainly pushed by demand and higher pulp costs, ...
SAO PAULO, March 20, 2018 (PPI Latin America) –The Brazilian Federal Police has included the surveillance over duty-free paper use in the country as one of its main targets for 2018, after it summoned 2,410 ...
SAO PAULO, March 20, 2018 (PPI Latin America) –Chilean pulp producer Arauco reported net revenues of $1.3 billion in the last quarter of 2017, 9.1% higher than the same period of the previous year. The ...
SAO PAULO, March 20, 2018 (PPI Latin America) –Moving on with its strategy to offer innovative forestry-based products, Brazil’s largest packaging paper producer Klabin has recently acquired a 12.5% share in the Israeli startup Melodea ...