Supplier News

Rohrer joined Kadant Johnson in 2008 as a marketing manager. Since that time, her responsibilities have grown to include inside sales, applications, and marketing where she has developed high-performance teams in each area.

Andritz recently received the final acceptance certificate for the upgrade of two Andritz P-RC APMP (pre-conditioning refiner chemical alkaline peroxide mechanical pulp) fiberlines delivered to APP's Guangxi Jingui Pulp and Paper in Guangxi Province, China.

BID Group will be partnering with Canfor Corporation to deliver a new state-of-the-art sawmill complex in southern Alabama. Through its industry-leading wood processing technologies and integrated solutions offering, BID will manage, design, build, equip, install, and provide full start-up services for the project.

Following the fire that hit RDM Blendecques mill in France, A.Celli will contribute to the restart of production with a brand new E-WIND P100 paper rewinder.

Andritz has successfully received the Final Acceptance Certificate for a biomass handling plant at Eldorado's Onça Pintada site in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

Ms. Katri Hokkanen (M.Sc. Econ) has been appointed CFO at Valmet as of August 1, 2022. She will report to President and CEO Pasi Laine. Katri Hokkanen has worked as Valmet's interim CFO since May 1, 2022.

Valmet's delivery includes replacing an existing baling line with a new one.

ANDRITZ has received an order from Sichuan Huaqiao Fenghuang Paper Co. Ltd. to supply a patented combi-pulping system for its mill in Guanghan, Deyang City, Sichuan Province, China.

Start-up is scheduled for the third or fourth quarter of 2022.

Swedish specialty pulp mill Aspa Bruk has placed an order for SPM's most advanced online system Intellinova Parallel EN to monitor the mechanical and lubrication condition of the mill's pulp dryer and wood chipper.

ABB has been appointed by Arauco, a manufacturer of forest products, to provide remote supervision in five of its pulp mills in Chile to ensure greater reliability and monitoring across all processes.

Kastamonu Entegre placed an order with Siempelkamp for a new particleboard plant for its location in Kastamonu City, Turkey.

ABB has been appointed by Klabin, Brazil's largest producer and exporter of packaging paper and sustainable solutions for paper packaging, to deliver the management and power distribution system (PDS) for their Puma II Project, which will support their production target of 920,000 tons per year.

Valmet will deliver the world's first two electrical folding machines for pulp bales to Södra Cell Mönsterås pulp mill in Sweden.

Andritz has received an order from Dongfang Smart Energy Co., Ltd. of Shaanxi Power Generation Group to supply two paper machine approach flow systems and LC (low consistency) refiners to its mill in Wugong County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, China.

Andritz has received the third order from Shandong Canfield Wood Industry Co., Ltd. to supply a pressurized refining system to its mill in Chiping County, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, China.

Valmet will deliver a LignoBoost plant for Mercer Rosenthal Lignin Center in Thuringia, Germany. The plant will extract kraft lignin from pulp mill black liquor.

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from Shanying Paper (Jilin) Co. Ltd. to supply a complete OCC line, including fiber recovery and reject handling system, for its mill near Fuyu City, Songyuan, Jilin Province, China.

AFT will be supplying a new POM thin stock approach system to the Papeles y Conversiones de Mexico containerboard mill in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. PCM is a leading Mexican company in the manufacture, conversion and marketing of high quality printing and packaging products.

SKF and ABB have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the possibilities for a collaboration in the automation of manufacturing processes. The MoU was signed at ABB's Robotics Experience Center in Västerås, Sweden, by SKF CEO Rickard Gustafson and ABB CEO Björn Rosengren.

AkzoNobel has announced that Gregoire Poux-Guillaume will become the company's new CEO as of November 1, 2022. He will succeed Thierry Vanlancker, who has been CEO and member of the Board of Management since 2017, and whose term of office is coming to an end.

The annual rankings also cited WIELAND as the 14th largest Industrial Contractor in the US, and the 4th largest contractor in Michigan.

Valmet will supply two Valmet IntelliTissue 1600 tissue machines for Liaoning Yusen tissue mill located in the county of Tai'an, Liaoning province, China.

Saudi Paper Group (SPG) and Toscotec have signed an agreement of understanding for the supply of a new tissue line to be installed at SPG's paper mill in Dammam second industrial city, Saudi Arabia. The tissue machine will produce 60,000 tonnes/yr of premium quality tissue, bringing SPG's total capacity to 190,000 tonnes/yr.

The Middle East Paper Company, the largest paper manufacturer in the Middle East and Africa, is deploying solutions from global software company SAP SE in an effort to streamline its business processes and increase efficiencies as part of a regional and global expansion strategy.