A popular American television show is “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” where a design team totally rebuilds a home for a family in record time.
ANDRITZ is involved in an “extreme makeover” of another type (...)

While pouring milk into their breakfast coffee, people hardly think of the importance of well-working service in a pulp mill. For high-quality liquid packaging board producers, the performance of their pulp supplier is a key issue (...)

The Reno de Medici Group of Italy is one of Europe’s biggest cartonboard producers based on recycled materials. Its production capacity is split between mills in Italy, Spain, France, and Germany (...)

Scan a list of pulp projects and you come across familiar names – Suzano, CMPC, Arauco, Stora Enso, Veracel, Fibria, Jari, Eldorado …. Eldorado? Who or what is Eldorado? (...)

Studies show that about 80% of the loops in a typical control system are poorly tuned. Quite often, processes run better in manual mode than automatic (...)

The Crofton mill of Catalyst Paper gets its share of visitors. Not because it is located on picturesque Vancouver Island in British Columbia, but because it has managed to consistently improve in terms of production and efficiency (...)

Dear Readers: Regular readers of Spectrum know that our articles are usually written after a project starts up. However, Montes del Plata of Uruguay is giving us a rare opportunity to publish a series of articles as this greenfield mill is being built (...)

Celulosa Arauco is embarking on a strident program to be world-class in every respect. Key indicators measuring safety and environmental compliance are constantly monitored (...)