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Customer selects ABB drives and motors for Lucca Paper Mill, which will be the biggest mill of its kind in the country.

On November 1, 2024, BASF closed the divestment of its flocculant mining business to Solenis, a global producer of specialty chemicals for water intensive industries, including the pulp, paper, oil and gas, chemical processing, mining, biorefining, power and municipal markets.

Valmet's website, valmet.com, has reached the top position in Finland in the Comprend Webranking 2024.

The start-up is scheduled for 2026.

The new system is planned to be taken into operation during the fourth quarter of 2025.

The plant is scheduled to start production in the second half of 2026.

Port Hawkesbury Paper has chosen Valmet to deliver a condition monitoring solution for its supercalendered paper mill in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Additionally, the Board and Paper Mills business unit will implement temporary layoffs lasting up to 90 days during the first half of 2025.

"The service market has developed somewhat slower in EMEA, China and Asia-Pacific than Valmet previously expected. In addition, market activity in process technologies for board and paper has been slower than previously expected and some customers have postponed their final investment decisions," the company writes in its press release.

ANDRITZ has successfully started up two recycled fiber lines at Lipy Paper Mills Ltd. in Kanchpur, Bangladesh.

Solenis, a leading global producer of specialty chemicals, will implement price increases of typically 4% to 10% across all product lines in EMEA, beginning November 1, or as contracts allow.

Tissue producer Fine Hygienic Holding worked with partners including ABB to optimize its delivery for higher productivity, and the collaboration allowed the company to achieve a Guinness World Record for the highest production rate in 24-hour period. Al Nakheel Paper Mill in Abu Dhabi can now turn out 2,222 meters of top-grade tissue paper per minute.

The new equipment is estimated to be taken into operation in autumn 2025.

The first Andritz tissue machine supplied to Xuan Mai has been in operation since 2020.

As earlier announced, the value of the order for Valmet is over EUR 1 billion.

Segezha Group has launched an extensive reverse engineering program to maintain and upgrade its industrial equipment at Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill, the company announced in its Telegram channel.

Kadant Johnson LLC, a subsidiary of Kadant Inc. (NYSE: KAI), will supply the steam and condensate system, and dryer hardware as a part of a greenfield coated recycled board (CRB) pulp and paper mill in the Southern United States.

SPM has received a strategically important order from Swedish sawmill Södra Wood Långasjö for online systems and wireless vibration sensors for monitoring production-critical equipment.

ANDRITZ supplied the complete mill with state-of-the-art technologies for all major process islands.

The Argentinian tissue paper producer Papelera San Andres de Giles chooses A.Celli technology and orders a new E-WIND P80 for its Buenos Aires plant to produce their own cardboard cores.

The paper machine produces recycled paper used in residential and commercial building products. The overall machine rebuild will allow the customer to increase production while reducing natural gas consumption approximately 50% and electricity consumption 20%.

The start-up is scheduled for the end of 2025.

Kemira announces a 4-8% price increase for all product lines in Pulp & Paper, Americas effective November 1, 2024 or as contracts allow. Continued inflationary pressures in the value chain including raw materials and transportation make this price adjustment necessary.

This acquisition further expands Perseus' global footprint in the pulp and paper industry, having already established a strong presence with MAJIQ, Quality Engineered Systems, Ediwise, and MOPSsys.

Orient Paper Industries Ltd (OPIL) entered into a partnership agreement with the BTG Group, to assist them with a digital transformation journey that will be rolled out in phases over the next few years.