Billerud receives a new award when the international organization CDP ranks Billerud as one of the companies and organizations which are at the forefront globally in sustainability work as well as transparency in sustainability reporting. Billerud is placed on CDP's top A-list in the “Climate” category out of a total of nearly 25,000 companies globally reviewed in 2024.
APV Graz and the Institute of Bioproducts and Paper Technology would like to remind you that until February 28th there is still the chance to submit a nomination for the Heinzel-Mondi-Sappi Research Award, which will be presented at the next Paper & Biorefinery Conference (4/5 June 2025) in Graz/Austria.
International technology group Andritz has recently commissioned a state-of-the art teXline bast fiber line at the new factory of Ekolution, a pioneer in sustainable building materials, in Malmö, Sweden. The line will expand Ekolution’s production capacity, producing environmentally friendly hemp fibers and nonwoven felts made from industrial hemp. The scope of supply included equipment for hemp decortication and refining, combined with a neXline airlay line for producing the felts.
International technology group Andritz supplied and recently commissioned two new refining and cottonizing lines for Van Robaeys, France. These fully customized teXline bast fiber lines enable the company to increase its production of textile fibers from flax. With the new lines, Van Robaeys is responding to the growing demand from the French market for cottonized and high-quality textile fibers from natural sources. Europe is the world’s largest producer of flax fibers, showing a 133% increase in flax cultivation areas between 2010 and 2020.
Södra’s mission is focused on members’ forests and to process their raw material, thereby creating value for these forest estates. Södra has therefore, as a step in implementing its strategy, decided to initiate a process to divest its forest holding and related activities in the Baltics. In order to do what’s best for forest estates and Södra’s long-term competitiveness, the holding is routinely evaluated against business needs.