Pulp and paper products
The combined US and Canadian Avarage weekly rail carloads of pulp and paper products has increased during the summer months. The combined US and Canadian rail carloads of pulp and paper for August 2010 was up 5,9% over August 2009 and down 18,5% from August 2008. Read more
Seattle, USA. August, 2010. Read more
Newsprint production in recent years has been a dramatic loss for forest companies. The Finnish daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat published an article on Thursday 2 September 2010 concerning a possible newsprint joint venture between Stora Enso, Holmen and Norske Skog. Paper company Stora Enso denies there are no discussions ongoing concerning the matter mentioned in Helsingin Sanomat. Helsingin Sanomat, however, confirms that interim speeches have been going. Trading in all three company's shares have been suspended on the stock exchange, because the article in Helsingin Sanomat about a planning joint venture. Read more
Closing the plant in Kaskinen (Kaskö ) was a mistake, says researcher Jacob Donner-Amnell to Finnish newspaper Vasabladet. A series of mistakes and miscalculations led to the closing in Metsä-Botnia pulp mill in Kaskinen according to the interview with Jakob Donner-Amnell, social scientists with the forest industry as specialty at the University of Joensuu.
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One of Brazil's most famous newspapers is from this week completely digital. Jornal do Brasil said it save enough paper to save annually "Forest cover, equivalent to more than 1200 Maracana".Maracana is one of the world's largest football stadium located in Rio. The Brazilian president Lula wrote that it is a democratic landmark in Brazilian media.
Students at Luleå University of Technology has designed the machine that gently lift seedlings from crop planting to the cartridge head.
- The goal is to make it to the mechanized planting more competitive,
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Interim results for the three months ended June 30, 2010
The Groups financial result was negatively affected due to the fact that sawlog deficits and unsecured log deliveries impeded sawn wood production, sales volumes and increased costs during the period. st 2010. Total turnover for the three month period ended June 30, 2010, amounted to SEK 91.7 million (SEK 95.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010). The operating result before financing costs for the period was SEK -44.7 million (SEK -28.5 million). Net result for the period was SEK -54.6 million (SEK -28.4 million). Earnings per share was SEK -2.50 (SEK -1.29). Cash and cash equivalents decreased by SEK 14.4 million during the period, from SEK 22.7 million at March 31, 2010, to SEK 8.3 million at June 30, 2010. Read more
Stora Enso Baienfurt GmbH has signed an agreement to divest its Baienfurt mill site real estate in Germany. Buyer is the IGV Industrie- und Gewerbeverwaltungs GmbH, a subsidiary of the Lower Bavarian Karl- Gruppe, which specialises in acquiring and restructuring industrial sites. Baienfurt Mill, which was part of Stora Enso's Consumer Board segment, had an annual capacity of 190 000 tonnes of folding boxboard. Read more
Stora Enso has today successfully issued two five-year bonds total of SEK 2 300 million under its EMTN (Euro Medium Term Note) programme. Both bonds are due on 1 September 2015. Read more
Gothenburg Landvetter Airport is now taking another step in its environmental work at the airport all diesel vehicles, the new ACP Evolution diesel in the tanks writes Flygtorget.se. ACP Evolution Diesel is a new biofuel produced by Swedish forest raw materials.The raw material is pine oil, the residue of the Swedish forest industry and the manufacture of paper pulp.The final product is renewable to 25 percent.
ACP Evolution Diesel is produced by Preem Petroleum AB, which is Swedavia supplier of gas. Preem was the first in the world to produce green diesel from wood raw material in industrial scale. Read more
