GLG News by Fine Paper Experts (NA)

The Halsey mill has a number of valuable assets - the ability to produce Unbleached Softwood (most mills have gone out of this grade), two tissue/towelling machines, a deinking pulping operation, a pulp grade (NBSK) that is in demand all over the Pacific Rim and SE Asia and a location right on...

Raising the duy of all logs to 80 euros/cubic meter will put half the mills in Sweden and Finland out of business it's been reported. Already these mills are operating with the world's highest wood costs - some say as high as US$256/mt or almost six times as high as Ara Cruz's world costs for plantation...

The US Government has fashioned the Tax Laws to make it advantageous for large land owners like Weyerhaeuser to convert to a REIT.  This would be similar to what several Canadians (i.e. Canfor and SFK) have already done. Weyerhaeuser is one (if not the) largest landowner in the Pacific Northwest.  ...

The three mills - Harmac, MacKenzie (BC) and Halsey (OR) were producing 1 million mt/year most for export to the Far East.  How will all the papermills who had been depending on this high strength softwood be able to cope?   Already the market is snug with supply and demand in balance. ...

There is a huge amount of cellulose in municipal sewage and represents enormous potential for producing an energy source from a current discarded material.  What would it take to make this commercially feasible? If a process could be proven effective, every municipality in the US could incorporate...

China's growing middle class has developed a strong appetite for both Uncoated FreeSheet (A4 Copybond, Offset Printing paper, envelope, tablet, thermal imaging papers etc) that has exceeded the PRC's expectations.  How much more will it grow?  The Government has already said by 2010 their...

Russia has now realized the value its Spruce, Pine and Larch trees have and has imposed a 20% tax on any logs greater than 25 cm (10").  It is these larger logs that are so valuable to processing into Newsprint and also for Kraft cooking to produce the highly regarded NBSK market pulp.  Did...

At a time when contraction seems to be the rule (Smurfit Stone having shut down 20 boxplants over the past few years), does IP really see the value in growing their container division by an additional 72 plants? IP's management believes it can cut expenses within 3 years by $400 million including $175...

The major implication is that major North American assets are coming under the complete control of Asian (mostly Chinese) companies and there is no secret that 100% of these mills' production will be going straight back to China.   Current global customers of these mills are already scrambling...

Demand for papermaking pulps over the next 5 years is projected to increase by 5%/year which translates to almost 3 million mt/year.  Where will all this pulp come from?   This demand translates to 3 new world-class market pulp mills being built each year. Ideally market pulp should...