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Pulp Paper & Logistics
Husum mill celebrates 100 years of fibre production
M
etsä Board’s Husum mill in Sweden celebrated its
centenary on 24 January. The mill started up in 1919 with
capacity to make 20,000 tonnes of unbleached softwood kraft pulp a year. Today Husum is a modern integrated mill site with
production capacities for 400,000 tonnes of folding boxboard, 250,000 tonnes of white kraftliner and 730,000 tonnes of bleached hardwood and softwood pulps. Recent developments at the mill included the conversion in 2015 one of the paper machines to a white kraftliner machine. The new folding boxboard machine started
DS Smith completes acquisition of Europac
UK-based packaging group DS Smith Plc completed the acquisition of Spain’s Papeles y Cartones de Europa, known as Europac, in January.
The €1.9 billion acquisition, which was first proposed last June, makes DS Smith a leader in some of Europe’s markets, selling paper-based packaging to customers in the fast-moving consumer goods markets and e-commerce, where it is already a leading supplier to customers including Amazon. Proposing the offer to Europac
shareholders in December, group chief executive Miles Roberts said: “I am delighted with the support from Europac shareholders. We look forward to
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up in 2016 and a 100,000-tonne extrusion line a year later in 2017. The products are used for a wide variety of end-uses in consumer, retail packaging and food service globally with the added logistics benefit of the mill’s own deep-sea port. “Over the years the Husum site has been successfully adapted
and improved ensuring an ongoing commitment to driving greater efficiency and market leading product development. However, none of this would have been achieved without the support of our dedicated employees,” said Olov Winblad von Walter, vice president of the mill.
Resolute completes sale of Catawba mill to New-Indy
Chief executive of DS Smith Miles Roberts
welcoming Europac employees into the DS Smith Group and integrating the businesses to the benefit of all our stakeholders. This acquisition is a fantastic opportunity to enhance our customer coverage and offering in this important region.” The acquisition of Europac adds almost €900 million to DS Smith’s annual sales of €5.77 billion.
Canada’s Resolute Forest Products has completed the sale of its paper and pulp mill at Catawba in South Carolina, to New-Indy Containerboard. The total price was US$300 million, made up of $260m in cash and about $40 million of balance sheet liabilities, largely net pension benefit obligations. “We are pleased to have
completed the sale of the Catawba mill to New-Indy and wish the new team every success with its investment in the diversification of the mill’s operations,” said Yves Laflamme, chief executive of Resolute. “We want to thank our employees
for their hard work and dedication toward this successful outcome, and are pleased that the community will
continue to benefit from the mill’s economic and social impact.” With headquarters in Montreal,
Resolute Forest Products is an integrated pulp, paper and tissue manufacturer with 40 facilities in North America that sell products to almost 70 countries. It operates five pulp mills with capacity of 1.3 million tonnes, eight newsprint mills with capacity of 1.8m tonnes and five speciality paper mills with capacity of 800,000 tonnes. Its three tissue mills have capacity for 116,000 tonnes. Sales in 2017 were $3.5bn. New-Indy Containerboard was
formed in 2012 by Kraft Group and Schwarz Partners, and is based in Ontario, California. In addition to the Catawba mill, it has three mills and one recycling centre using 100 per cent recycled fibre.
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