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Arctic Paper strengthens the sales organization

Arctic Paper consolidates the sales organizations for Scandinavia and the Baltics into a joint company, Arctic Paper ScanBaltics. Leif-Arne Karlsen, today Managing Director of the Scandinavian sales company, has been appointed Managing Director of the new company from June 1st, 2021. At the same time, Māra Savicka has been appointed Regional Manager for the Baltics States.

The change is part of an ongoing effort to consolidate and streamline the Arctic Paper sales process, while maintaining customer-friendly service.

Arctic Paper is creating a new strategic group R&D function

In order to maintain and strengthen Arctic Paper's ability to develop new innovative products that meet customer needs, the company has decided to create a new cohesive R&D function at the Swedish mill in Munkedal. Daniel Klang has been appointed as Group R&D manager.

Daniel Klang most recently came from the position as production manager at Rexcell Tissue & Airlaid in Skåpafors and has previous experience from roles as sales and marketing manager at Ahlstrom-Munksjö in Billingsfors.

Lecta Reduces Energy Consumption at Its Mills by 60% with New Lighting

In keeping with its environmental objective of optimizing energy consumption.

In accordance with its firm environmental commitment in carrying out its manufacturing operations, Lecta has updated the lighting installations at its Zaragoza, Sant Joan les Fonts and Motril mills in Spain. This energy efficiency project carried out in cooperation with Spanish energy and renewables company Acciona entailed substituting all the lighting at plant facilities, replacing conventional lighting with new LED installations.

Machines are running at full speed at Lessebo Paper

Lessebo Paper can see an increasing interest in their eco-friendly papers. The company is one of the oldest paper manufacturers in Sweden and produces premium graphic papers. Despite a slight decline in the paper market due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company's machines have been working at full capacity for several months. There will be no supply difficulties. The company attributes the positive development also to its sustainability strategy. 

Stora Enso plans to shut down one standard newsprint paper machine in Sweden

Stora Enso will start codetermination negotiations with employees at its Hylte Mill in Sweden regarding a plan to reorganise the mill, including permanent closure of paper machine PM3 and the deinking plant (DIP). After the planned restructuring, the mill would run on 100% thermomechanical pulp (TMP), improving the competitiveness of the mill. The planned closure of PM3 and the reorganisation of the mill would impact a maximum of 140 persons. PM3 is planned to be closed by the end of 2020 and the DIP latest in Q2 2021.

Arctic Paper receives Cradle to Cradle Certified™ certification for a wide range of paper products

The full product range of Munken papers, Amber Graphic and Munken Kraft have been awarded a Silver Level Material Health Certificate as part of the multi-attribute Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Standard. In addition, the entire production process of the mill in Munkedal was inspected and achieved the Bronze Level which therefore represents the overall level of product certification.