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Track new mills, expansions, conversions, closures and restarts across the fibre value chain. A useful project record identifies the company, mill, location, grade, net capacity change, project stage and expected start-up. Announced, permitted, under construction and operating describe different stages and should not be combined as confirmed supply.
Separate new capacity from replacement equipment, transferred production and grade conversions. State annual metric tons and distinguish pulp from paper and integrated from market pulp. A converted machine can add one grade while removing another; it is not necessarily a net increase in total output.
Preserve the original announcement and record subsequent changes to timing, scope and status. Commissioning is followed by ramp-up, so annual nameplate capacity should not be treated as first-year production. Use the linked stories to follow changes rather than counting repeated announcements as separate projects.
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Editorial standards →Adeptus plans to establish its first South Carolina operation at a wood products plant in Anderson County, according to the supplied Lesprom excerpt. The reported investment is US$215.56 million, and the facility is expected to create 217 jobs.…
Read the full article →A Wood Central report summarizing a Food and Agriculture Organization forests report says planted forests established for restoration cost between US$272 and US$28,251 per hectare in the cited source. The report says plantations cost nearly six times as much per hectare as assisted natural regeneration. Among the dozen restoration methods compared, only irrigation-led projects and silvopasture were reported to cost more than plantations.…
Read the full article →Hunan Lead Goal New Materials says it has developed a bamboo-fibre material for food packaging, according to China Daily. The company is based in Huaihua, Hunan province, a region the report describes as a major bamboo-growing area. The material is made by reducing bamboo to fine fibre and forming it into products including egg containers, takeaway boxes and supermarket packaging.…
Read the full article →The Government of the Northwest Territories says a large tree-planting project on public land near Sambaa Deh Falls has been completed. In July 2026, crews working with Jean Marie River First Nation and Windfirm Resources planted 1,504,030 plugs, according to the supplied report. The project produced a reported total of 3,365,613 native trees and shrubs across 403 hectares. It was undertaken to restore forest affected by wildfire.…
Read the full article →Voith has introduced NipDynamics, a sensor system designed to monitor roll-cover conditions in paper machines while production is running. Sensors embedded directly in roll covers measure nip conditions, including under high temperatures, according to the supplied report. Voith says the system provides papermakers with real-time operating information without requiring a production shutdown.…
Read the full article →The U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities have announced the beta launch of the Forestry Analytics for Carbon Tracking platform. The free platform is intended to provide forest-sector carbon data in one accessible location. The organizations say it combines public and private datasets that have previously been fragmented or costly to aggregate.…
Read the full article →La Rochette Cartonboard said it secured a financing solution with its partners in less than three weeks, according to a management statement issued on September 29. The French mill produces virgin-fibre packaging board and employs 280 people, the supplied report says. Its products primarily serve food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics customers in France and international markets.…
Read the full article →Billerud is launching a new generation of its Billerud Flute corrugating medium. The company says the grade has higher compression strength than its previous version. Billerud says the added strength could give converters more options in corrugated-packaging design.…
Read the full article →Rayonier Advanced Materials has begun a process to shut down its Témiscaming plant in Quebec, according to a report published October 5. The shutdown is described as indefinite, and an associate vice-president said between 300 and 400 employees would be affected, although the exact number was not yet available. This development concerns the status and workforce impact of the plant, distinct from the previously reported coalition effort to acquire and restart the idled mill.…
Read the full article →New Zealand’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) is providing NZ$3.7 million to five hubs intended to collect and prepare low-grade wood left in forests, according to a Wood Central report. The proposed hubs run from Southland to Waikato. The report says four proposed fuel plants could draw NZ$450 million in private investment, but does not say that this investment has been committed.…
Read the full article →Valmet has received an order for modernization services for the recovery boiler and evaporation plant at Södra’s Mönsterås site in Sweden. The company said the work is intended to support reliability, safety, and operating performance. Södra is described in the announcement as a long-standing Valmet customer.…
Read the full article →Wood pulp prices in China moved generally higher within a range in September, according to SunSirs. Its market analysis put the average softwood pulp price in Shandong at RMB 4,930 per metric ton on September 29, up 1.02% from September 1. The average hardwood pulp price in Shandong was RMB 4,600 per metric ton, an increase of 1.47% over the same period.…
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