PIMA's North American Papermaker articles from July 2000

PIMA's North American Papermaker archives from July 2000

PIMA and Forestweb launch PIMAweb.
July 1, 2000... PIMA, Mt. Prospect, III., and Forestweb Inc., Los Angeles, an Internet portal for the forest products industry, has created a strategic Internet alliance and co-branded website called PIMAweb. PIMAweb combines high quality content, online...

PIMA announces staff additions and promotions.
July 1, 2000... In May, Ted McDermott accepted a consulting role at PIMA. He will assist the Association on technology issues and will serve as Technology Editor of PIMA's North American Papermaker. McDermott is a much published business/technology...

Greening your image.
July 1, 2000... I've gotten used to the forest products industry being a whipping boy for many environmental groups. As a result, my blood pressure doesn't rise as much as it used to when I get mailings from the National Wildlife Federation or Greenpeace...

Smurfit-Stone permanently shutting another medium mill.
July 1, 2000... Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. will permanently shut down operations at its idle corrugating medium mill in York, Pa. The Chicago-headquartered company will also shut its Torrington, Conn., corrugated plant in October and consolidate its...

IP completes Champion merger.
July 1, 2000... Champion International Corp., Stamford, Conn., officially became part of International Paper Co. on June 20 after the Purchase, N.Y., company received more than 94% of Champion's shares in its cash and stock tender offer. The 92 million...

Dot-coms buy into recovered paper.
July 1, 2000... E-cycled.com in Portland, Ore. has acquired Pacwest Fibers Inc., doing business as Ideal Paper. Ideal will join e-cycled.com's other operating units, which include Fibres International, Best Recycling and Recycle Systems. The businesses form...

Consortium offers to buy idle Gaspesia mill.
July 1, 2000... A Canadian consortium made up of Fonds de Solidarite FTQ, investor Clermont Levasseur and SNC-Lavalin is offering to buy Abitibi-Consolidated's idle Gaspesia newsprint mill in Chandler, Que. The financial-engineering triad plans to rebuild...

Madison Paper buys FSC newsprint mill.
July 1, 2000... Madison Paper Co., Alsip, Ill., a newly formed, wholly-owned affiliate of Myllykoski Corp. in Finland, has completed the details to buy bankrupt FSC Paper Co. in the southwest Chicago suburb of Alsip. The mill produces 120,000 tpy of...

Market conditions delay Kalamazoo sale.
July 1, 2000... Graphic Packaging International says that, because of current paperboard market conditions, it has been unable to sell the Kalamazoo, Mich., recycled paperboard mill it acquired last year. Proceeds from the sale of the mill were expected...

Champion completes Sartell No. 3 machine upgrade.
July 1, 2000... Champion International Corp. (now International Paper) has completed a major upgrade of the No. 3 paper machine in Sartell, Minn., improving the printability and sheet aesthetics of the machine's No. 5 coated groundwood papers for offset and...

West Linn Paper rebuilds machine.
July 1, 2000... West Linn Paper has begun a $10 million rebuild of its No. 3 paper machine at the West Linn, Ore., coated freesheet mill. Construction work on the last of three machines began in April and is scheduled for completion next April. The...

Appleton expanding thermal capacity.
July 1, 2000... Appleton Papers plans to increase its thermal paper production capacity at its Appleton, Wis., operation by more than 50% during the next 18 months through a series of equipment upgrades and expansions. Appleton is converting one of two...

American Tissue buys CST/Star.
July 1, 2000... American Tissue Corp. is continuing its expansion in the printing and writing business by acquiring the assets of CST/Star Inc., reportedly the largest U.S. independent forms producer and a distributor of branded and private label paper...

Three states settle tissue price-fixing lawsuit.
July 1, 2000... Six away-from-home tissue producers agreed to a $1.2 million settlement with three states that had joined in an antitrust price-fixing case initiated last fall. by West Virginia attorney general Darrell V. McGraw, Jr. New York and...

Sorg closes Ohio mill.
July 1, 2000... Sorg Paper Co. in Middletown, Ohio, has been permanently closed down, as announced in March by owner Wausau-Mosinee Paper Corp., Mosinee, Wis. No offers were made to buy the old specialty paper operation. Since buying Sorg in 1983,...

G-P to install new technology to control air emissions.
July 1, 2000... Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s mill at Big Island, Va., has announced plans to install the first full-scale, commercial application of a new technology known as black liquor gasification. The technology will replace the mill's existing smelters and...

Irving Woodlands earns FSC seal in Maine.
July 1, 2000... Irving Woodlands LLC, part of New Brunswick's J.D. Irving Ltd., has earned a Forest Stewardship Council certification following a year-long assessment by an independent panel of the methods it uses in managing about 570,000 acres of forests...

Monadnock Paper Mills.
July 1, 2000... Monadnock Paper Mills, Bennington, N.H., bought Surface Tech LLC from Azon and Mead Oxford for an undisclosed price and will rename it Monadnock Specialty Coatings LLC. Surface Tech produces coated release papers, label facestocks and coated...

Willamette Industries.
July 1, 2000... Willamette Industries, Spokane, Wash., has completed its $70 million acquisition of the Mexican corrugated and containerboard business of FEMSA (Fomento Economico Mexicano S.A. de C.V.), Mexico's largest beverage company. Its bottle-packaging...

Durango-Georgia Paper Co.
July 1, 2000... Durango-Georgia Paper Co. is the new name for the former Gilman Paper Co. mill operations in St. Marys, Ga., that were sold to Mexico's Corporacion Durango last December by the H G Estate LLC. The Georgia bleached packaging board and pulp...

P.H. Glatfelter Co.
July 1, 2000... P.H. Glatfelter Co.'s Neenah, Wis., mill earned ISO 14001 certification for its environmental management system. Glatfelter's Spring Grove, Pa., mill had been the first U.S. pulp and paper mill to earn the certification in April 1999, and its...

Mohawk Paper Mills.
July 1, 2000... Mohawk Paper Mills expects to boost converting capacity at its Cohoes, N.Y., mill by 350% in July with a new cut-size sheeter and ream wrap line from Bielomatik. The $15 million line can convert up to 52 tons per eight-hour shift, and can...

Institute of Paper Science and Technology.
July 1, 2000... The Institute of Paper Science and Technology, Atlanta, has been recognized as the fifth most innovative institution in the country by the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. Using data from a survey of 250 of the top...

Asia Pulp & Paper buying Celgar Pulp.
July 1, 2000... Asia Pulp & Paper has outbid other potential suitors in buying bankrupt Celgar Pulp in Castlegar, B.C., for a price estimated by Canadian analysts to be $325 million. The information could not be confirmed by the companies. The 1,300...

Weyerhaeuser rebuilding Dryden PM 2.
July 1, 2000... Weyerhaeuser is upgrading the PM 2 fine paper machine in Dryden, Ont. Deliveries from Valmet have begun, and startup is scheduled for May of next year. The project is aimed to improve product quality and speed for the primarily xerographic...

60% of Canadian forests to be certified by 2003.
July 1, 2000... Canadian forestry companies are being certified for sustainable forest management at a much faster rate than originally forecast, says Lise Lachapelle, president of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association. By 2003, 60% of Canada's managed...

Riverwood and Suzano weigh Brazilian strategy.
July 1, 2000... Suzano de Papel e Celulose and Riverwood International Corp., Atlanta, have hired Goldman, Sachs to help evaluate strategic alternatives for their jointly held subsidiary Igaras containerboard operations, including a merger or sale of assets....

ABB Automation.
July 1, 2000... ABB Automation opened the first of three global factory certified centers of excellence for industrial repair services in Columbus, Ohio. (see photo below) Beyond its existing factory repair facilities, ABB Automation is consolidating its...

Adhesives Research Inc.
July 1, 2000... Adhesives Research Inc. is nearly doubling the size of its R&D facility in Glen Rock, Pa., in order to handle increasing demand for custom research of pressure-sensitive adhesive-based technologies. The company's R&D has doubled in the last...

Hercules and Vivendi Water.
July 1, 2000... The BetzDearborn and Pulp and Paper Divisions of Hercules and Vivendi Water have extended their North American alliance to all other regions of the world. The companies will cooperate to sell Vivendi Water's industrial outsourcing and...

Buckman Laboratories.
July 1, 2000... Buckman Laboratories became one of the first companies in the specialty chemicals industry to have a registered ISO 14001 environmental management system. Buckman was also one of the first chemical companies to receive ISO 9002 registration...

Hercules Inc.
July 1, 2000... Hercules Inc. has acquired Quaker Chemical Corp.'s U.S. pulp and paper division in Conshohocken, Pa., for an undisclosed price. The division supplies products and services for application in the tissue paper making and pulping processes....

Honeywell.
July 1, 2000... Honeywell's industrial automation and control division unveiled its electronic "Build Order Buy" system (e.BOB), which it says is the most advanced Web-ready product and service available for streamlining order processing and shipping....

Imery.
July 1, 2000... Imerys has signed an agreement with Praxair for the acquisition of 100% of Quimbarra, the leading Latin American producer of ground and precipitated calcium carbonate. Quimbarra operates 15 plants in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, and owns...

Specialty Minerals Inc.
July 1, 2000... Specialty Minerals Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Minerals Technologies Inc., is investing more than $10 million to expand two of its processed minerals facilities in Lucerne Valley, Calif., and Canaan, Conn. According to president Paul...

Rockwood International.
July 1, 2000... Rockwood International is installing a new Stacker/ Reclaimer Type RISS-505-440-5.0. in the woodyard at Willamette Industries' Kingsport, Tenn., fine paper mill. The 440-ft. diameter unit will provide automated chip storage and restore the...

SHW Inc.
July 1, 2000... SHW Inc. has an agreement with The Summit Group in Charlotte giving Summit representation rights for all SHW's calender roll products and services in the South. SHW is a leading supplier of chilled cast iron rolls and services and also...

Thermo Black Clawson.
July 1, 2000... Thermo Black Clawson will upgrade the filler and liner stock systems for the No. 1 machine at Tama Paperboard, Tama, Iowa, using new Ultra-V and Mini pressure screens, Ultra-Clone forward cleaners, Xtreme and XXClone reverse cleaners and a...

Valmet.
July 1, 2000... Valmet has received an order from Iggesund Paperboard to rebuild the company's KM 1 board machine in Iggesund, Sweden. After the rebuild, KM 1 will produce 130,000 tpy of solid bleached board, mostly used in very demanding applications. The...

Voith Sulzer Finishing.
July 1, 2000... In 1996, Voith Sulzer Finishing launched the Twister, a roll-wrapping machine based on the spiral winding principle. Since then, 19 orders for the Twister have been placed. The Twister wraps paper rolls with a width ranging from 300 to 4,000...

Quality Paper project seeks funding.
July 1, 2000... Quality Paper is planning to invest in two new coated board machines with a combined capacity of 240,000 mtpy. The company plans to start up the two machines by the end of 2002. The land required for the project has been made available, and...

Sirpur expands, modernizes again.
July 1, 2000... Papermaker Correspondent S G Rangan reports: Sirpur Paper Mills, (SPM), one of the oldest integrated pulp and paper mills in the country, is undertaking an R500-600 million expansion and modernization program, which will boost Capacity to...

CLONAL PLANTATION PROGRAM.
July 1, 2000... To produce 59,000 metric tons (tonnes) an estimated 1.7 tonnes of wood and 30,000 tonnes of bamboo is required. To partly meet this requirement, the company has taken up an ambitious plantation scheme. Under the joint farm management concept,...

Norske Skog offer "fair and reasonable," says banker.
July 1, 2000... Fletcher Challenge has reported further progress with its restructuring plan. It is mailing Out independent reports from investment banker Grant Samuel on the planned sale of Fletcher Challenge Paper, so that shareholders will be ready to...

TWO GOVERNMENTS OKAY NORWEGIAN INVASION.
July 1, 2000... The investment banker's positive appraisal comes after regulatory authorities on both sides of the Tasman--New Zealand's Overseas Investment Commission and Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board--granted their approval of the deal. ...

Nippon Paper and Daishowa merger.
July 1, 2000... Nippon Paper Industries (NPI) and Daishowa have announced details of their planned merger. The two companies said in a press release that they will integrate their operations under a new holding company. The new company, to be called Nippon...

Metsa-Serla buys all of MoDo Paper; SCA gets Metsa Tissue and Metsa Corrugated.
July 1, 2000... SCA and Holmen are selling their respective 50% shareholdings in Modo Paper to Metsa Serla. At the same time, SCA is buying Metsa Serla's 65% holding in Metsa Tissue and Metsa Serla's entire corrugated board operation, Metsa Corrugated,...

Peninsular deal agreed.
July 1, 2000... Holmen, meanwhile, has now reached a definite agreement to buy Spanish newsprint producer Papelera Peninsular from Unipapel, Spain's largest paper converter, for some SEK 2 billion on a debt-free basis. The deal is subject to approval from...

AWA gets worms as full owner.
July 1, 2000... Arjo Wiggins Appleton (AWA) is to become wholly owned by French investment company, Worms, which has owned a stake in AWA for a decade. Worms is to pay [pound]1.318 billion ($2 billion) for the 60% of AWA that it doesn't yet own, valuing AWA...

Burgo changes hands.
July 1, 2000... Italian papermaking giant, Burgo, has been taken over by a bidding consortium called Dieci, led by agro/chemical/energy company, Compart. Some 98% of the shareholders in Burgo, which has a capacity of about 2.2 million mtpy of graphic papers...

Smurfit-Stone rolls out B2B company.
July 1, 2000... Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., Chicago, wasted no time in launching a business-to-business (b2b) company focused on providing packaging supply chain solutions for online retailing. Less than two weeks after completing the acquisition of St....

Westvaco allies its envelopes with Noosh.
July 1, 2000... Westvaco Corp., New York, will offer its customers the ability to buy, design and manage order fulfillment of print-related projects and envelopes on Noosh Inc.'s noosh.com. The relationship creates a one-stop destination for noosh.com...

Navigating the bureaucracy of river recovery.
July 1, 2000... What should be done about PCBs in Wisconsin's Fox River? Dredging? Capping? Natural Remediation? The stakes in this debate are enormous, with cleanup costs projected in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Environmentalists and pulp and...

To e- or not to e-? ... or is it when to e-?
July 1, 2000... E-commerce can provide dynamic new business models, but it is not a "silver bullet." To join the world of e-commerce, a company first must have its internal IT systems in good shape. Manufacturers and distributors are racing to become...

Charting a global course.
July 1, 2000... Newly elected PIMA President Rick Larrick (below left) of Georgia-Pacific and National Affiliate Chairman Tom Krieg of Engelhard Corp., shown here by the USS Constellation in Baltimore Harbor, have chosen Baltimore as the host city for the...

PEOPLE.
July 1, 2000... PAPER COMPANIES The following promotions have been made at Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Idaho: Stanley R. Bell has been elected vice president and general manager of the building materials distribution division; also, Kenneth W. Cupp,...

Optimizing performance with a mini-batch program.
July 1, 2000... Paper machine operating efficiencies are impacted by the performance of papermaking fabrics. Machine clothing must remove water from the sheet during the entire fabric life in order to maintain machine throughput and produce a high quality...

Nano advances with Compozil Select[tm].
July 1, 2000... For over 20 years, nanoparticle technology has fueled high performance retention/drainage at the wet end, paying for itself through productivity gains, quality and reduction in raw material costs. Its inventor, Eka Chemicals, continues to...

Excitement grows for the PIMA Training Institute's new program.
July 1, 2000... What's new at PIMA? It's a fact that PIMA is established as the premier association for the international pulp and paper industry. With over 4,500 members, PIMA is committed to educating its membership about industry issues and supporting...