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LUCCA, ITALY, May 6, 2021 (Press Release) -A.Celli Paper assisted the PT. Dayasa Aria Prima (Dayasa) team in every step of the process to ensure a successful start-up of the paper machine converted to the production of Corrugated Medium by applying PMT technology.

A.Celli Paper is proud to announce that on Saturday March 13th PT. Dayasa Aria Prima (Dayasa), a subsidiary of PT. Fajar Surya Wisesa (SCG - SIAM CEMENT GROUP), has successfully started-up the completely rebuilt PM#1 located in their Gresik plant.

Given the current global situation and the consequent travel restrictions, the start-up was carried out remotely thanks to the continuous support of A.Celli Paper team and a detailed commissioning program with specific documentation.

The 5600 mm wire machine has been converted from the production of coated paper to Corrugated Medium with a design basis weight of 90 gsm at a design speed of 1200mpm.

The A.Celli Paper/PMT supply included:

  • PMT Shoe Press with Deflection-Controlled Roll
  • Major rebuild of the dryer section with the installation of Vacuum Rolls, Stabilizer Boxes and a new Rope Less Threading System

With the acquisition of PMT and the full integration of the PMT engineering, A.Celli Paper is now in the position to supply machinery equipment for all kind of paper.

This supply will be added to the existing A.Celli E-WIND P100 Paper Rewinder equipped with the Slittomatic Web-In automatic slitting units positioning system and with the addition of the spool storage.

The successful rebuild carried out for SCG, which follows the supply of a new paper rewinder in one of their Vietnam plant and the rebuild of an existing rewinder made by another manufacturer, is a great achievement for all our Asian customers.

This is also a perfect demonstration that no matter the obstacles due to the global pandemic, A.Celli will always be by your side.

A.Celli Paper completes PM 1 start-up at Dayasa Aria Prima's Gresik plant in Indonesia

Posted in: Packaging Technology 05/06/2021 - 13:55

LUCCA, ITALY, May 6, 2021 (Press Release) -A.Celli Paper assisted the PT. Dayasa Aria Prima (Dayasa) team in every step of the process to ensure a successful start-up of the paper machine converted to the production of Corrugated Medium by applying PMT technology.

A.Celli Paper is proud to announce that on Saturday March 13th PT. Dayasa Aria Prima (Dayasa), a subsidiary of PT. Fajar Surya Wisesa (SCG - SIAM CEMENT GROUP), has successfully started-up the completely rebuilt PM#1 located in their Gresik plant.

Given the current global situation and the consequent travel restrictions, the start-up was carried out remotely thanks to the continuous support of A.Celli Paper team and a detailed commissioning program with specific documentation.

The 5600 mm wire machine has been converted from the production of coated paper to Corrugated Medium with a design basis weight of 90 gsm at a design speed of 1200mpm.

The A.Celli Paper/PMT supply included:

  • PMT Shoe Press with Deflection-Controlled Roll
  • Major rebuild of the dryer section with the installation of Vacuum Rolls, Stabilizer Boxes and a new Rope Less Threading System

With the acquisition of PMT and the full integration of the PMT engineering, A.Celli Paper is now in the position to supply machinery equipment for all kind of paper.

This supply will be added to the existing A.Celli E-WIND P100 Paper Rewinder equipped with the Slittomatic Web-In automatic slitting units positioning system and with the addition of the spool storage.

The successful rebuild carried out for SCG, which follows the supply of a new paper rewinder in one of their Vietnam plant and the rebuild of an existing rewinder made by another manufacturer, is a great achievement for all our Asian customers.

This is also a perfect demonstration that no matter the obstacles due to the global pandemic, A.Celli will always be by your side.

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    HONG KONG, April 29, 2021 (Press Release) -
  • The new website provides faster access to BASF additives and formulation recommendations
  • New products meet increasing requirements in performance and sustainability
  • Quick access to additive web-seminars and BASF additive experts

BASF launched a new website for ‘Performance and Formulation Additives’. The new website (http://www.basf.com/additives) offers multiple value-adding features. Its design provides faster and easier access to new additives, fulfilling increasing market needs for performance and sustainability as well as stricter regulatory requirements. The BASF ‘Performance & Formulation Additives’ portfolio enables the conversion from solvent to water-based formulations, helps to reduce the CO2 footprint and contributes to a higher efficiency and reduction in complexity for our customers.

BASF additive customers from various industries, such as Paints and Coatings, Construction, Printing and Packaging, Adhesives and Composites can now easily access a series of new additive web-seminars and podcasts through the website.

The web-based tool ‘Lab Assistant’ has also been upgraded. This tool helps formulators to quickly explore BASF additive and formulation recommendations, compare products, access product safety data, order samples and contact our experts.

“The new BASF Additive website combines our strong focus on innovation and digitalization and our commitment to serve our customers in the best possible way. New products for more sustainable solutions, easy access to information and the know-how of our dedicated additive technical experts and sales teams are the basis to continue to grow together with our customers globally,” said Dr. Claus Dallner, Vice President, Global Business Management for Performance & Formulation Additives, BASF.

BASF’s Performance & Formulation Additives portfolio

BASF is a premiere provider of performance and formulation additives for the Paints and Coatings industry. With a comprehensive range of respected brands and a broad technology base of dispersing agents, defoamers, rheology modifiers, wetting agents and surface modifiers, film-forming agents, light stabilizers, antioxidants and optical brighteners, our unique portfolio helps to enable performance-driven products, which are passionately designed to meet the latest and most stringent environmental regulations

BASF’s Dispersions & Pigments division

The Dispersions & Pigments division of BASF develops, produces and markets a range of highquality pigments, resins, additives and polymer dispersions worldwide. These raw materials are used in formulations for a number of industries, including coatings, construction, adhesives, printing and packaging, electronics, and paper. With its comprehensive product portfolio and its extensive knowledge of the industry, the Dispersions & Pigments division offers its customers innovative and sustainable solutions and helps them advance their formulations.

About BASF

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. More than 110,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio is organized into six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €59 billion in 2020. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S.

BASF launches new website for faster access to its additives

Posted in: Chemicals 04/29/2021 - 06:53
    HONG KONG, April 29, 2021 (Press Release) -
  • The new website provides faster access to BASF additives and formulation recommendations
  • New products meet increasing requirements in performance and sustainability
  • Quick access to additive web-seminars and BASF additive experts

BASF launched a new website for ‘Performance and Formulation Additives’. The new website (http://www.basf.com/additives) offers multiple value-adding features. Its design provides faster and easier access to new additives, fulfilling increasing market needs for performance and sustainability as well as stricter regulatory requirements. The BASF ‘Performance & Formulation Additives’ portfolio enables the conversion from solvent to water-based formulations, helps to reduce the CO2 footprint and contributes to a higher efficiency and reduction in complexity for our customers.

BASF additive customers from various industries, such as Paints and Coatings, Construction, Printing and Packaging, Adhesives and Composites can now easily access a series of new additive web-seminars and podcasts through the website.

The web-based tool ‘Lab Assistant’ has also been upgraded. This tool helps formulators to quickly explore BASF additive and formulation recommendations, compare products, access product safety data, order samples and contact our experts.

“The new BASF Additive website combines our strong focus on innovation and digitalization and our commitment to serve our customers in the best possible way. New products for more sustainable solutions, easy access to information and the know-how of our dedicated additive technical experts and sales teams are the basis to continue to grow together with our customers globally,” said Dr. Claus Dallner, Vice President, Global Business Management for Performance & Formulation Additives, BASF.

BASF’s Performance & Formulation Additives portfolio

BASF is a premiere provider of performance and formulation additives for the Paints and Coatings industry. With a comprehensive range of respected brands and a broad technology base of dispersing agents, defoamers, rheology modifiers, wetting agents and surface modifiers, film-forming agents, light stabilizers, antioxidants and optical brighteners, our unique portfolio helps to enable performance-driven products, which are passionately designed to meet the latest and most stringent environmental regulations

BASF’s Dispersions & Pigments division

The Dispersions & Pigments division of BASF develops, produces and markets a range of highquality pigments, resins, additives and polymer dispersions worldwide. These raw materials are used in formulations for a number of industries, including coatings, construction, adhesives, printing and packaging, electronics, and paper. With its comprehensive product portfolio and its extensive knowledge of the industry, the Dispersions & Pigments division offers its customers innovative and sustainable solutions and helps them advance their formulations.

About BASF

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. More than 110,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio is organized into six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €59 billion in 2020. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S.

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ECLEPENS, Switzerland, April 29, 2021 (Press Release) -The BTG Single Point Morphology (SPM-5550) is the newest addition to the BTG portfolio, providing valuable information to better understand fibers. It is an online Morphology analyser, measuring several fiber properties including length, surface, kink and shives content.

The SPM-5550 is mounted directly to the fiber processing pipe and contains all unit operations of the traditional multi-point Morphology analyser, the result being a much faster measurement frequency to support 4.0 solutions.

It is the key building block of many solutions in the areas of pulping, graphic paper, packaging and tissue. Solutions incorporating the SPM have been demonstrated to impact key performance indicators such as fiber costs, energy costs, chemical costs and product quality.

BTG Group is a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialized process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry. BTG is committed to help its customers achieve significant, sustainable gains in business performance.

BTG adds SPM key building block for fiber morphology solutions to its portfolio

Posted in: Mills 04/29/2021 - 05:27

ECLEPENS, Switzerland, April 29, 2021 (Press Release) -The BTG Single Point Morphology (SPM-5550) is the newest addition to the BTG portfolio, providing valuable information to better understand fibers. It is an online Morphology analyser, measuring several fiber properties including length, surface, kink and shives content.

The SPM-5550 is mounted directly to the fiber processing pipe and contains all unit operations of the traditional multi-point Morphology analyser, the result being a much faster measurement frequency to support 4.0 solutions.

It is the key building block of many solutions in the areas of pulping, graphic paper, packaging and tissue. Solutions incorporating the SPM have been demonstrated to impact key performance indicators such as fiber costs, energy costs, chemical costs and product quality.

BTG Group is a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialized process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry. BTG is committed to help its customers achieve significant, sustainable gains in business performance.

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ECLEPENS, Switzerland, April 29, 2021 (Press Release) -The BTG Single Point Morphology (SPM-5550) is the newest addition to the BTG portfolio, providing valuable information to better understand fibers. It is an online Morphology analyser, measuring several fiber properties including length, surface, kink and shives content.

The SPM-5550 is mounted directly to the fiber processing pipe and contains all unit operations of the traditional multi-point Morphology analyser, the result being a much faster measurement frequency to support 4.0 solutions.

It is the key building block of many solutions in the areas of pulping, graphic paper, packaging and tissue. Solutions incorporating the SPM have been demonstrated to impact key performance indicators such as fiber costs, energy costs, chemical costs and product quality.

BTG Group is a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialized process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry. BTG is committed to help its customers achieve significant, sustainable gains in business performance.

BTG adds SPM key building block for fiber morphology solutions to its portfolio

Posted in: Chemicals 04/29/2021 - 05:27

ECLEPENS, Switzerland, April 29, 2021 (Press Release) -The BTG Single Point Morphology (SPM-5550) is the newest addition to the BTG portfolio, providing valuable information to better understand fibers. It is an online Morphology analyser, measuring several fiber properties including length, surface, kink and shives content.

The SPM-5550 is mounted directly to the fiber processing pipe and contains all unit operations of the traditional multi-point Morphology analyser, the result being a much faster measurement frequency to support 4.0 solutions.

It is the key building block of many solutions in the areas of pulping, graphic paper, packaging and tissue. Solutions incorporating the SPM have been demonstrated to impact key performance indicators such as fiber costs, energy costs, chemical costs and product quality.

BTG Group is a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialized process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry. BTG is committed to help its customers achieve significant, sustainable gains in business performance.

Read more

ECLEPENS, Switzerland, April 29, 2021 (Press Release) -The BTG Single Point Morphology (SPM-5550) is the newest addition to the BTG portfolio, providing valuable information to better understand fibers. It is an online Morphology analyser, measuring several fiber properties including length, surface, kink and shives content.

The SPM-5550 is mounted directly to the fiber processing pipe and contains all unit operations of the traditional multi-point Morphology analyser, the result being a much faster measurement frequency to support 4.0 solutions.

It is the key building block of many solutions in the areas of pulping, graphic paper, packaging and tissue. Solutions incorporating the SPM have been demonstrated to impact key performance indicators such as fiber costs, energy costs, chemical costs and product quality.

BTG Group is a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialized process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry. BTG is committed to help its customers achieve significant, sustainable gains in business performance.

BTG adds SPM key building block for fiber morphology solutions to its portfolio

Posted in: Mills 04/29/2021 - 05:27

ECLEPENS, Switzerland, April 29, 2021 (Press Release) -The BTG Single Point Morphology (SPM-5550) is the newest addition to the BTG portfolio, providing valuable information to better understand fibers. It is an online Morphology analyser, measuring several fiber properties including length, surface, kink and shives content.

The SPM-5550 is mounted directly to the fiber processing pipe and contains all unit operations of the traditional multi-point Morphology analyser, the result being a much faster measurement frequency to support 4.0 solutions.

It is the key building block of many solutions in the areas of pulping, graphic paper, packaging and tissue. Solutions incorporating the SPM have been demonstrated to impact key performance indicators such as fiber costs, energy costs, chemical costs and product quality.

BTG Group is a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialized process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry. BTG is committed to help its customers achieve significant, sustainable gains in business performance.

Read more

ECLEPENS, Switzerland, April 29, 2021 (Press Release) -The BTG Single Point Morphology (SPM-5550) is the newest addition to the BTG portfolio, providing valuable information to better understand fibers. It is an online Morphology analyser, measuring several fiber properties including length, surface, kink and shives content.

The SPM-5550 is mounted directly to the fiber processing pipe and contains all unit operations of the traditional multi-point Morphology analyser, the result being a much faster measurement frequency to support 4.0 solutions.

It is the key building block of many solutions in the areas of pulping, graphic paper, packaging and tissue. Solutions incorporating the SPM have been demonstrated to impact key performance indicators such as fiber costs, energy costs, chemical costs and product quality.

BTG Group is a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialized process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry. BTG is committed to help its customers achieve significant, sustainable gains in business performance.

BTG adds SPM key building block for fiber morphology solutions to its portfolio

Posted in: Bio-Insight 04/29/2021 - 05:27

ECLEPENS, Switzerland, April 29, 2021 (Press Release) -The BTG Single Point Morphology (SPM-5550) is the newest addition to the BTG portfolio, providing valuable information to better understand fibers. It is an online Morphology analyser, measuring several fiber properties including length, surface, kink and shives content.

The SPM-5550 is mounted directly to the fiber processing pipe and contains all unit operations of the traditional multi-point Morphology analyser, the result being a much faster measurement frequency to support 4.0 solutions.

It is the key building block of many solutions in the areas of pulping, graphic paper, packaging and tissue. Solutions incorporating the SPM have been demonstrated to impact key performance indicators such as fiber costs, energy costs, chemical costs and product quality.

BTG Group is a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialized process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry. BTG is committed to help its customers achieve significant, sustainable gains in business performance.

Read more

ECLEPENS, Switzerland, April 29, 2021 (Press Release) -The BTG Single Point Morphology (SPM-5550) is the newest addition to the BTG portfolio, providing valuable information to better understand fibers. It is an online Morphology analyser, measuring several fiber properties including length, surface, kink and shives content.

The SPM-5550 is mounted directly to the fiber processing pipe and contains all unit operations of the traditional multi-point Morphology analyser, the result being a much faster measurement frequency to support 4.0 solutions.

It is the key building block of many solutions in the areas of pulping, graphic paper, packaging and tissue. Solutions incorporating the SPM have been demonstrated to impact key performance indicators such as fiber costs, energy costs, chemical costs and product quality.

BTG Group is a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialized process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry. BTG is committed to help its customers achieve significant, sustainable gains in business performance.

BTG adds SPM key building block for fiber morphology solutions to its portfolio

Posted in: Tissue 04/29/2021 - 05:27

ECLEPENS, Switzerland, April 29, 2021 (Press Release) -The BTG Single Point Morphology (SPM-5550) is the newest addition to the BTG portfolio, providing valuable information to better understand fibers. It is an online Morphology analyser, measuring several fiber properties including length, surface, kink and shives content.

The SPM-5550 is mounted directly to the fiber processing pipe and contains all unit operations of the traditional multi-point Morphology analyser, the result being a much faster measurement frequency to support 4.0 solutions.

It is the key building block of many solutions in the areas of pulping, graphic paper, packaging and tissue. Solutions incorporating the SPM have been demonstrated to impact key performance indicators such as fiber costs, energy costs, chemical costs and product quality.

BTG Group is a multinational provider of integrated, highly specialized process solutions for the global pulp and paper industry. BTG is committed to help its customers achieve significant, sustainable gains in business performance.

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HELSINKI, April 26, 2021 (Press Release) -Launched in April, Stora Enso’s NewsPress range of newsprint is now available also as a 100 % thermo-mechanical pulp (TMP) grade. Juha Ceder, VP of the News & Book segment and Håkan Naij, Mill Director at Stora Enso’s Hylte Mill in Sweden, explain the benefits NewsPress papers offer to printers and newspaper consumers.

NewsPress is a well-known newsprint brand in Europe and overseas. Juha Ceder, VP of the News & Book segment at Stora Enso, what was the impetus to now offer a 100 per cent virgin fibre alternative?

We have always adjusted our range of NewsPress papers to respond to shifting demand patterns and consumer preferences. We have a strong 100% recycled fibre based NewsPress offering, but wanted to offer a fully virgin fibre based NewsPress as well.  

When making a decision on further production at our Hylte Mill, we had two alternatives available; produce TMP or deinked pulp. From the perspective of raw material and production efficiencies available to us, TMP was considered to be the better alternative. 

Markets also appreciate paper made of virgin fibre as it gives body to a printed product. Furthermore, virgin fiber-based products are well perceived by the markets as they increase the fiber inflow into the recycling ecosystem.

Håkan Naij, Mill Director at the company’s Hylte Mill in Sweden, what differences can printers and consumers of newsprint expect between NewsPress recycled and 100 per cent TMP grades?

As our 100% TMP grade is an all-virgin fibre product, this means the paper will have a discernibly firmer structure due to its higher bulk content. Consumers will perceive a fresh look, with stiffer integrity to their newspaper and a delightful tactile feel associated with this paper. 

Moreover, this newest grade of NewsPress maintains other Stora Enso paper qualities of outstanding runnability and printability.

From the standpoint of the customer, what will this added choice mean to their own business objectives?

Firstly, there are fewer and fewer mills today that offer 100% virgin fibre newsprint. For printers in markets whose customers continue to expect the same newspaper reading experience, they now have the assurance that our Hylte Mill, which has been exclusively producing newsprint in Sweden for over 50 years, will fulfil their needs. 

Secondly, because NewsPress 100% TMP is bulkier than recycled newsprint, customers are able to use a lower substance alternative, and consequently print the same number of pages using fewer tonnes of material. This provides a path for our customers to better target varying weights of both 100% recycled and 100% TMP newsprint to different consumers, while still controlling costs.

Part of the bioeconomy, Stora Enso is a leading global provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wooden construction and paper. We employ some 23 000 people and have sales in more than 50 countries and our shares are listed on the Helsinki (STEAV, STERV) and Stockholm (STE A, STE R) stock exchanges.

Stora Enso launches new NewsPress range of newsprint based on 100% TMP

Posted in: Mills 04/27/2021 - 08:40

HELSINKI, April 26, 2021 (Press Release) -Launched in April, Stora Enso’s NewsPress range of newsprint is now available also as a 100 % thermo-mechanical pulp (TMP) grade. Juha Ceder, VP of the News & Book segment and Håkan Naij, Mill Director at Stora Enso’s Hylte Mill in Sweden, explain the benefits NewsPress papers offer to printers and newspaper consumers.

NewsPress is a well-known newsprint brand in Europe and overseas. Juha Ceder, VP of the News & Book segment at Stora Enso, what was the impetus to now offer a 100 per cent virgin fibre alternative?

We have always adjusted our range of NewsPress papers to respond to shifting demand patterns and consumer preferences. We have a strong 100% recycled fibre based NewsPress offering, but wanted to offer a fully virgin fibre based NewsPress as well.  

When making a decision on further production at our Hylte Mill, we had two alternatives available; produce TMP or deinked pulp. From the perspective of raw material and production efficiencies available to us, TMP was considered to be the better alternative. 

Markets also appreciate paper made of virgin fibre as it gives body to a printed product. Furthermore, virgin fiber-based products are well perceived by the markets as they increase the fiber inflow into the recycling ecosystem.

Håkan Naij, Mill Director at the company’s Hylte Mill in Sweden, what differences can printers and consumers of newsprint expect between NewsPress recycled and 100 per cent TMP grades?

As our 100% TMP grade is an all-virgin fibre product, this means the paper will have a discernibly firmer structure due to its higher bulk content. Consumers will perceive a fresh look, with stiffer integrity to their newspaper and a delightful tactile feel associated with this paper. 

Moreover, this newest grade of NewsPress maintains other Stora Enso paper qualities of outstanding runnability and printability.

From the standpoint of the customer, what will this added choice mean to their own business objectives?

Firstly, there are fewer and fewer mills today that offer 100% virgin fibre newsprint. For printers in markets whose customers continue to expect the same newspaper reading experience, they now have the assurance that our Hylte Mill, which has been exclusively producing newsprint in Sweden for over 50 years, will fulfil their needs. 

Secondly, because NewsPress 100% TMP is bulkier than recycled newsprint, customers are able to use a lower substance alternative, and consequently print the same number of pages using fewer tonnes of material. This provides a path for our customers to better target varying weights of both 100% recycled and 100% TMP newsprint to different consumers, while still controlling costs.

Part of the bioeconomy, Stora Enso is a leading global provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wooden construction and paper. We employ some 23 000 people and have sales in more than 50 countries and our shares are listed on the Helsinki (STEAV, STERV) and Stockholm (STE A, STE R) stock exchanges.

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