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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 →Metsä Group reported sales of €5.833 billion for 2025, according to the supplied report. Net cash flow from operations reached €537 million. The report attributes the results to higher pulp and sawn-timber volumes, while stating that lower selling prices and higher fixed costs weighed on operating performance.…
Read the full article →Metsä Board has completed its acquisition of a cutting and distribution centre in Winschoten, the Netherlands, from Konvertia Group, according to the supplied report. The agreement was announced on January 23. The site has an annual capacity of approximately 100,000 metric tons and employs 22 people, as reported in the source.…
Read the full article →Cascades plans to close three packaging facilities in Canada and the United States as it exits the honeycomb paperboard and cardboard partition segments. The company said the move is part of a strategy to refocus on core, higher-margin markets. The affected sites are in Berthierville and Saint-Césaire, Quebec, and York, Pennsylvania. The closures are expected to affect 114 employees in total.…
Read the full article →Essity has secured a €400 million loan from the European Investment Bank to support research, development and innovation across its businesses. The seven-year financing is intended to fund work ranging from improvements to existing technologies to the development of new products. Essity said the agreement supports its longer-term aim of strengthening innovation capabilities across the group.…
Read the full article →Smurfit Westrock said it invested more than R$70 million over the past three years in its Bento Gonçalves operation in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The spending covered modernization of the industrial unit and the creation of the company’s first Packaging Solutions Centre in the South region, according to the supplied report. The centre is intended to support co-development of packaging solutions with customers.…
Read the full article →Smurfit Westrock has partnered with environmental consultancy SLR and energy-system specialist RIZM to develop site-specific net-zero transition plans for several recycled-paper mills in Europe. The collaboration is intended to translate the company’s climate commitments into mill-level roadmaps. The plans are expected to account for local operating conditions, energy systems, regulatory frameworks and market dynamics.…
Read the full article →Mercer Rosenthal has commissioned a new cooking-liquor evaporator system at its pulp mill in Germany, according to a February 9, 2026 report. Valmet supplied the system, which the report says entered operation in early November 2025. The project targets losses in the cooking area, described as one of the mill’s most energy-intensive processes. The system is intended to reduce avoidable steam consumption and improve condensate recovery.…
Read the full article →Bracell reported a 15% improvement in planting quality in Bahia after applying a precision-forestry approach to eucalyptus management. The company said the work followed a study that began in 2023 and was consolidated in 2025. Trials examined planting periods across the year, using representative genetic materials in three regions with differing environmental conditions.…
Read the full article →Sappi plans to install an online system to measure fibre morphology and freeness at its Maastricht paper mill in the Netherlands. The system, described in the supplied report as an ABB installation, is intended to provide continuous measurements at the wet end. Sappi plans to use the data to adjust stock preparation and refining. The stated objective is to stabilize pulp quality and support on-specification production.…
Read the full article →Fortune Pack Labels Industry has installed a FlexiCon350 flexographic press supplied by Hontec at its Dubai operation, according to the supplied report. The press has eight-colour printing units and two die-cutting stations. Hontec says the configuration is designed for label applications and intended to provide flexibility and improve productivity.…
Read the full article →Smurfit Westrock has announced the permanent closure of one paper machine at its La Tuque mill in Quebec. The company cited scale and cost challenges affecting the machine’s competitiveness, according to the supplied report. The machine has an annual production capacity of 127,000 tons of solid bleached sulfate (SBS). That figure describes the machine’s stated existing capacity, not a capacity addition.…
Read the full article →Cascades is discontinuing its honeycomb paperboard and partition packaging businesses and plans to close plants in Saint-Césaire and Berthierville, Quebec, and York, Pennsylvania. The supplied report says the Berthierville plant had already closed during the week before the February 9, 2026 report. That closure affected 52 employees, according to the excerpt.…
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