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M-real can make three to seven days

March 5, 2010 by timbercommunity

If the stevedore strike continues the paper manufacturer M-real will manage three to seven days before the company will consider closing one plant. Read more

Very strong report from Stora Enso Fourth Quarter

February 4, 2010 by timbercommunity

Forest group Stora Enso reported a profit of 80.6 million euros for the fourth quarter. During the same period in 2008 was there a loss of 846 million euros.

Analysts had very wrong about the outlook from Stora Enso. Stora Enso reports a profit before tax of 123 million euros (28) for the fourth quarter of 2009. An analyst poll was expected that this figure would stop at 70 million. It would appear that as the largest newsprint producers will not see the image too bright for Stora Enso. Falling newsprint prices and raw material prices starting to move up is not particularly funny and tools like Ipad beginning to appear not directly improve the situation.

Interesting is that 15% of its turnover comes from the pellet thus it is quite important that these activities are going well. Pellets are made of by-products from sawmills. Production takes place in an integrated, all-new Stora Enso plants. In order to minimize unnecessary transport. Read more

Holmen increase profits - reduces dividend

February 4, 2010 by timbercommunity

The paper manufacturer Holmen reports a profit before tax of 332 million SEK  in the fourth quarter (195) in the interim report. This was slightly better since analysts expected to present a pre-tax profit of 307 million SEK for the fourth quarter,according to a compilation of 13 analysts' forecasts SME Direkt also compared with 195 million the same quarter last year.

The share rose 2.25 after the report was released. Pulp prices have in recent months has reached a historic high (U.S. $ 820/ton) and continues to rise week by week. The staff reduction of 100 persons in progress at Holmen's mills in Braviken expected to have its full impact on the costs towards the end of 2010. Read more

Research: Batteries made from nanotubes and paper

December 11, 2009 by timbercommunity

An article in Sciencenews describes that scientists in Stanford have made batteries and supercapacitors with little more than ordinary office paper and some carbon and silver nanomaterials. The paper-based devices show excellent performance largely due to paper’s porous nature: at the nano scale, paper is a tangled matrix of fibers. Read more

Imports of logs, lumber and pulp to China increased substantially in the 2Q/09 as the country’s economy grow by almost 8%, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly

December 3, 2009 by timber09

 China became the major import destination for many globally traded forest products in 2009. The country is the world’s largest importer of wood pulp and logs, and was the 2nd largest importer of softwood lumber in the world in the 2Q/09, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.

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Interim Report for Holmen

November 4, 2009 by timbercommunity

January-September 2009 Read more

Nuclear Target Among Consortium with Swedish Paper and Pulp Companies

October 31, 2009 by timbercommunity

The energy giant Vattenfall and a newly formed company Industrikraft has signed a memorandum of understanding on joint power generation. The goal is to build a new nuclear power plant for the industry says Mats Gustafsson, president of Industrikraft in Sweden AB.
Five companies are also supporting the new company among them pulp and paper companies Holmen, SCA, Stora Enso and Eka Chemicals. Industrikraft is also supported by the mining company Boliden. The Swedish pulp and paper industry is simply dependent on electricity at competitive prices. Read more

Södra Raises Pulp Prices

October 24, 2009 by timbercommunity

Södra Cell is raising the price of both its softwood and hardwood pulps by USD 30/tonne from 1 December. This will take softwood pulp prices to USD 880/tonne and hardwood pulp to USD 780/tonne.

2007 started with a price of $ 730 per tonne of softwood pulp. The latest increase means that the price would go up by $ 30 compared to the closest previous level. Read more

New Carbon Credit-Trading Project focused on forests in the Southern US

October 9, 2009 by timbercommunity

A group of timber and paper supply companies and environmental organizations has launched a pilot project to allow landowners who selectively log their forests to earn carbon credits they can trade on the open market. The new group, calling itself Carbon Canopy, Read more

Future packaging solution?

October 7, 2009 by timbercommunity

OrganoClick has developed a number of renewable paper based materials and chemical formulations used to enhance the performance of paper and packaging products. With the help of natural-based catalysts, fatty acids to paper bags, rending the product with water repellent properties.
The company use modification of cellulose in their products and this technology can be applied to an endless array of cellulosic products for instance
supply a range of unique, environmentally friendly materials and chemical compositions for use in the paper-, packaging-, textile-, wood- and biotechnology industry. Read more

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