Switzerland | Since the beginning of this year the staff members of the TEXAID sorting plant -in Schattdorf, Switzerland- are learning a completely new kind of dealing with the used clothes, home text ...
India | Pragati Papers Industries Ltd, a Delhi based paper producer, is putting up a Rs.5 billion (US$ 124 million) recycled waste-paper plant in Gujarat. According to Pragati, the plant, at Dahej in ...
Canada | According to preliminary data from the Canada Pulp and Paper Products Council, recycling rates in the country climbed in the last year to reach 58%. This marks an improvement in recycling ef ...
United States | An all-time high of 56% of paper consumed in the United States was recovered for recycling in 2007, achieving an industry goal five years ahead of schedule, the US trade association of ...
United Kingdom | The UK Confederation of Paper Industry (CPI) has analysed paper mill raw material usage and HM Revenue and Customs (HM R&C) trade data which shows solid progress through 2007 in the r ...
United States | One of the world’s leading paper producers, Weyerhaeuser, has announced the sale of its Containerboard Packaging and Recycling (CBPR) business to its rival International Paper for US ...
Australia | Australian paper maker AMCOR will close its historic paper mill in Fairfield and invest AUS$230 million (US$211 million) in a new recycling mill, after reporting flat first-half results. T ...
Norway | Due to cost increases and excess capacity, leading Norwegian paper producer Noske Skog is closing facilities to improve profitability, Production capacity in Europe and Korea will be reduced, ...
Japan | The Fair Trade Commission of Japan has asked Nippon Paper Group Inc, the first major papermaker to admit this month that it had falsified the ratio of used paper contained in recycled paper pr ...
