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International technology Group ANDRITZ saw a solid development of profitability in the first quarter of 2016 despite slight declines in sales and order intake.

The equipment goes to Fibria’s Horizonte 2 pulp mill. Horizonte 2 is one of the largest private investments in Brazil.

The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) announced a new partnership with Valmet.

Metso will supply about one thousand valves for Stora Enso’s consumer board machine project in Guangxi, China.

DS Smith has confirmed its acquisition of the Recycling Division of Middleton Paper for an undisclosed sum. The Recycling Division currently generates circa 9,000 tonnes a year of fibre, and deals with a wide range of paper and cardboard grades.

Valmet has made a contract with Pratt Paper (IN), LLC for the supply of the paper machine for Pratt’s new greenfield paper mill in Valparaiso area, Indiana, USA. The mill will utilize recovered paper in the production of recycled linerboard and corrugated medium. The start-up of the new paper machine, PM16, is scheduled for 2015.

The new plant, build by Sims Metal Management, is expexted to handle all of the cities recyclables.

International technology group Andritz has received an order from Klabin, the largest integrated pulp and paper company in Brazil, to supply major production equipment for Klabin’s new pulp mill in Ortigueira, Parana, Brasil.