- Finishing strong: how Finland stays on
top.
How does a small country become a papermaking superpower? Through hard work and staying focused on the goal. How does a small country with a cold climate bordered by a dominant neighbor become a global leader in the forest products industry? It uses its organizational and engineering skills to become ......
- Comparing Canada and the Nordic
countries.
Canada and the Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden and Finland) have similar resource bases and business fundamentals, but have taken different paths in developing their pulp and paper industries. Long-term production of paper and board has grown in both regions, but growth in the Nordic countries has been more than double ......
- On the road again.
One of the first trips I made after becoming editor of PIMA Magazine in 1988 was to Finland. I was a member of the second "Press Survivors" tour sponsored by Valmet, which introduced a small group of editors from the trade press to the latest papermaking technology used in Finnish ......
- Trimming, Thinning Paper Webs
The lightweight coated (LWC) market has steadily tightened since last fall, with order times stretching out over four weeks and prices climbing near $25/cwt. Healthy global demand is the primary reason, as capacity increases and imports fall in the domestic market. Shipments of LWC paper are up nearly 10% year-to-date, ......
- Stora Enso moving into Latin
America.
Editor's Note: The following interview originally appeared in the June 2003 issue of O Papel, published by ABTCP, Brazil's Pulp and Paper Technical Association. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Stora Enso's Nils Grafstrom explains the company's new strategy for pulp production in Latin America. Borders are no obstacle for large companies with global ......
- Stora Enso Buys Wisconsin Paper Co.
The Finnish-Swedish forest products company StoraEnso has acquired Consolidated Papers Inc. of Wisconsin for approximately $4 billion in the latest trans-Atlantic consolidation in the paper business. The deal creates a major paper producer with about $12.4 billion in revenues and 47,000 employees. Also, in another global merger in the paper ......
- New frozen food packaging introduced in Europe by
Stora. (SIAL 2002: the global food marketplace).
Two new lines of packaging with ice cream and frozen food applications have been introduced by Stora Enso Food Service Boards, Imatra, Finland, one of Europe's leading consumer packaging board producers. Cupforma and Trayforma for the cup and tray markets, respectively, were introduced in April at the Interpack 2002 exhibition ......