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this year, 2020. It was originally built as a


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wood grinding plant alongside the Kyröskoski river in 1870, since when it has manufactured market wood pulp, groundwood, sawn timber, various papers and paperboard for international markets.


With 150 employees, the mill


currently produces high-quality folding boxboard for Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group. Its BM1 board machine, with a trim width of 3.3m and a speed of 660 metres per minute, has a yearly capacity of 190,000 tons per year. Grammage of board is in the range


The Kyro mill in Finland, which annually produces up to 190,000 tons of folding boxboard, is 150 years old this year


of 195-380g/sqm. “Kyro people are proud of their


mill,” says mill manager Petri Huiko.”Our staff have always lived with changes and challenging times have been overcome by


Westrock to supply paper- based collars for Coke cans


Cans of Coca-Cola are to be launched in multipacks using paperboard-based rings designed by WestRock. The recyclable CanCollar will be


rolled out in the Balearic Islands of Spain in November 2020 by Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) as part of moves to remove all unnecessary or hard to recycle plastic from its portfolio. The PEFC-certified collating rings


will replace plastic, saving more than 18 tonnes of the material a year.


CCEP says it has invested €2.6 million in its Barcelona plant to support the initiative. The bottler adds that the installation of WestRock’s CanCollar Fortuna manufacturing equipment will enable multipack cans to be grouped with a process that does not require the use of glue or


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Coca-Cola will be saving 18 tons of plastics a year by using paper-based collars


adhesives. Joe Franses, sustainability chief


at CCEP, said: “The agreement with WestRock exemplifies our clear commitment to reduce plastic in our secondary packaging. By the end of 2020, we will have removed more than 4,000 tonnes of hard-to-recycle plastic from our secondary packaging in Western Europe. It’s through collaborating on innovative packaging solutions like CanCollar that we are able to do this.”


working together. People commit themselves to the mill for a long time, with families often having several generations involved.” This has positively influenced the kind of mill Kyro is today.


etsä Board’s Kyro mill in Finland celebrates its 150th anniversary


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Metsä Board’s Kyro mill celebrates its 150th anniversary


“Continued development is key to the success, efficiency and production quality of our paperboards and we are proud to continue to develop Kyro as generations before us have done,” added Huiko. Last year, Metsä Board Kyro


began manufacturing a new plastic free eco-barrier board for food and food service packaging and introduced artificial intelligence (AI) to its quality control. Furthermore, the mill’s board machine finishing area is being modernised in a €20 million investment. The rebuild includes a new reeler, a winder and the renewal of the reel broke handling system, all of which is scheduled to start during the autumn of 2021.


A.Celli Paper buys PMT Italia to reinforce its position in the sector


PMT Italia srl, which manufactures machinery for the tissue and paper industry, has been bought by A.Celli Paper spa. PMT Italia, based in Pinerolo,


was established in 2000 but shares a long tradition of expertise and success as a former subsidiary of Beloit Corporation. For more than 50 years, it was the European headquarters of the American group.


With its acquisition, PMT Italia’s


range of products will benefit from synergies with the organisation and know-how of A.Celli Paper said the Lucca-based firm which is part of the Italia Technology Alliance. The technologies developed for


packaging papers, cardboard and printing will be available to the


group’s worldwide customers, and the customer service division will be restructured and strengthened, in order to guarantee continuity and reliability to customers operating with former-Beloit and PMT machines. “With this operation, carried out in a period of general uncertainty, we want to demonstrate the desire to guarantee cutting-edge technologies and timely assistance for Italian and foreign companies operating in the strategic sector of paper and tissue,” said Mauro Celli, owner of Italia Technology Alliance. “Maintaining this heritage in


Italy is an important step that will bring benefit to the entire paper supply chain, including the district of Lucca.”


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