Tag Archives: Spain

Sofidel Investing $185 Million to Increase Capacity of Its Circleville, Ohio Tissue Mill

Sofidel announced that it is investing $185 million to increase production capacity at its tissue mill in Circleville, Ohio. The project involves the construction of a new building that will house a new Valmet DCT 200 tissue machine. The new machine will have the capacity to produce 70,000 metric tons per year. The Circleville plant, […]

Glatfelter and Ekman Initiate Partnership to Sell Abaca Pulp Globally

Glatfelter has entered into an agreement with Ekman & Co. to market Glatfelter’s high quality, specialty Abaca pulp exclusively through Ekman’s global sales agency platform. Glatfelter has increased its market capacity of Abaca pulp and is partnering with Ekman’s global sales organization to reach new and innovative markets for this fiber. Abaca is a unique, […]

Valmet to Deliver Recovery Boiler Upgrade to Lecta’s Torraspapel Mill in Spain

Valmet will deliver a recovery boiler upgrade to Lecta Group’s Torraspapel combined pulp and paper mill in Zaragoza, Spain. According to Valmet, the primary target of the upgrade is to increase the recovery boiler’s black liquor capacity. The upgrade will also reduce the mill’s emission levels and improve the water side of the boiler, hence […]

Albany International to Acquire Heimbach Group for EUR 153 Million

Albany International on June 14 announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Heimbach Group, a leading supplier of paper machine clothing, in an all cash transaction valued at approximately EUR 153 million, including the assumption of EUR 21 million net debt. The transaction has been unanimously approved by the Albany […]

DS Smith to expand its Cartogal packaging plant in Spain

The Cartogal packaging plant located in the town of A Pobra do Caramiñal, in Galicia, Spain, will soon see an increase in size, production and storage capacity after a milestone investment of 11.35 million euros, according to DS Smith. The major investment and expansion plans aim to improve service to customers, as well as to […]

Smurfit Kappa invests Euro 27 million in lime kiln and gas treatment system at paper mill in Spain

Smurfit Kappa is investing Euro 27 million in a state-of-the-art new waste management and recovery facility at its Nervión paper mill in Iurreta, Spain. The lime kiln and gas treatment system will have a production capacity of 120 tonnes of lime per day and will provide significant environmental benefits. The new circular system will allow the […]

Saica Group expands in Poland

Saica Group has reached an agreement to acquire the majority of shares (76%) of Fox Recykling, a waste management company in Poland. Thanks to this acquisition, Saica strengthens its growth strategy in Eastern Europe and expands the footprint of one of its business divisions: Saica Natur. “This milestone is a step forward in Saica´s business […]

Nijhuis Saur Industries completes the acquisition of Veolia’s European mobile water services division

Nijhuis Saur Industries (part of Saur Group) announces that it has finalized the Group’s acquisition of Veolia’s European Mobile Water Services division based on the anti-trust commitments made by Veolia to the European Commission. The former Mobile Water Services will now become Nijhuis Saur Industries’ Mobile Water Solutions division, one of Europe’s leading providers of […]

Saur and Veolia signed a binding agreement for the acquisition by Saur of MWS Europe from Veolia

In accordance with the press release , and following completion of the consultation process with the employee representative bodies, Saur announces that Veolia has exercised the unilateral put option for the sale of its European Mobile Water Services division (MWS Europe). Subsequently, Saur and Veolia signed an agreement for the acquisition by Saur of MWS […]

Global recovered paper market reaches $46.4B

IndexBox has just published a new report: ‘World – Recovered Paper – Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends and Insights’. Here is a summary of the report’s key findings. In 2021, the global recovered paper market was finally on the rise to reach $46.4B after three years of decline. The market value increased at an average […]