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Particle board plant fully commissioned

7th March 2008 South African rigging and engineering provider Vanguard, has handed over a fully commissioned particle board plant to Sonae Novobord in White River, Mpumalanga. →

Paper giant adds voice to power supply crisis

7th March 2008 Paper manufacturer and producer Sappi is adding its voice to an increasing number of business leaders requesting Eskom and government to consider all options to make it economically viable for companies already producing their own power to increase output to assist in rectifying the current... →

KZN project to balance timber supply and demand

7th March 2008 Sappi Forests will be able to supply current and potential timber resources for the proposed Project Amakhulu. The project will have a positive effect on Sappi Forests by balancing timber demand with supply. →

Mondi eyes emerging markets for growth

By: Olivia Soraya Spadavecchia 28th February 2008 Paper and packaging firm Mondi reported on Thursday that its underlying earnings a share had increased by 74% taking the figure to €46,9c a share for the 2007 financial year. The group, which would continue to pursue growth in emerging market countries, specifically, Poland, Russia and South... →

Rapid exploitation of African forests may lead to wood shortages

By: Leandi Kolver 8th February 2008 Forests are under immense pressure for human, agriculture and animal needs. Many forests are being converted for agricultural use in the sub-Saharan African region, which is happening at alarming speeds. Between 1981 and 1990, an estimated 25% of forest loss was accounted for by agriculture... →

Despite ‘real challenges' Sappi Saiccor expansion remains on track

By: Christy van der Merwe 31st January 2008 Pulp and paper firm Sappi confirmed that its Saiccor expansion project in KwaZulu-Natal, which would increase capacity at the plant by some 30%, was "running a week and half behind, but very much on track to be up and running by the third quarter of 2008". →

Sappi's first quarter profits rise on higher sales

By: Christy van der Merwe 31st January 2008 Pulp and paper giant Sappi on Thursday reported that basic earnings a share had jumped by 38% to $0,18 a share for the first quarter ended December 2007. Operating profit, excluding special items, increased by 46% to $92-million from $63-million a year ago, the company said. →

Mondi to set up container-board machine at Polish mill

By: Christy van der Merwe 31st January 2008 Paper and packaging manufacturer, Mondi announced on Thursday that its new lightweight recycled containerboard machine would be situated at it's Swiecie mill, in Poland. →

Mondi to go ahead with €525m Russian project

By: Matthew Hill 7th December 2007 Paper and pulp manufacturer Mondi said on Friday that it would proceed with a €525-million project in Russia to modernise and expand the low-cost and vertically integrated Syktyvkar. →

Adding value across the pulp and paper cycle

By: Terence Creamer 30th November 2007 As with just about every other commodity, China is currently offering the main price underpin for pulp prices, which have risen strongly over the last few months, but remain volatile. However, Mondi's Strategy and Business Development Director Andrew King tells Engineering News that the... →

SA unit’s BEE-plus makes it charter ready

By: Chanel de Bruyn 30th November 2007 Black empowered Mondi Packaging South Africa (MPSA) - with Mondi and the Shanduka Group as its main shareholders- believes that the new forestry sector charter, which could be unveiled soon, will be aligned as far as possible to the generic broad-based black economic-empowerment (BBBEE) codes, as... →

Recycling an informal sector growth engine

By: Chanel de Bruyn 30th November 2007 Recycling is a big informal sector growth engine and job creator and Mondi Packaging South Africa’s (MPSA’s) CEO Theo van Breda says he is committed to ensuring that it continues to develop and evolve despite the lack of enabling legislation. →

Development key to East Rand success, says Eaton

By: Chanel de Bruyn 30th November 2007 Development is key to the turnaround of Pamodzi Gold’s East Rand operations, says COO Tony Murdoch Eaton. →

Employees drive funds for rape victims

30th November 2007 Employees of paper and packaging solutions company Mondi Packaging South Africa (MPSA), together with the Gauteng Department of Health opened a trauma centre at the Far East Rand Hospital, east of Johannesburg in November. →

SA paper giant eyes Russia's softwood riches

By: Terence Creamer 30th November 2007 Newly independent paper and packaging group Mondi - which unbundled from resources giant Anglo American in July and became only the second company to take up dual primary listings on the JSE and the London Stock Exchange - believes its low-cost fibre advantage is being further entrenched by a... →

Newly listed KayDav eyes national expansion

By: Matthew Hill 15th November 2007 Wooden-board supplier KayDav, which joined the JSE's main board on Thursday, has plans afoot to nearly double its South African market share to 25%, CEO Gary Davidson said. →

Komatiland Forest faces abuse of dominance complaint

By: Matthew Hill 13th November 2007 The Competition Commission has found sufficient evidence to refer State-owned forestry firm Komatiland Forests (KF) to the Competition Tribunal, after a it received a complaint that KF was charging excessive prices for its timber on the spot market, which makes it difficult for smaller mills that... →

At what cost, lower prices?

By: Terence Creamer 12th October 2007 In recent years, much ink has been spilt (this publication being no exception) over the potential employment benefits that could flow from more competitively-priced basic materials, particularly carbon steel. →

York grows earnings 36% on increased volumes

By: Mariaan Webb 26th September 2007 Forestry products York’s interim headline earnings a share increased by some 36% to 11,8c a share, on higher sales volumes, the group reported on Wednesday. →

York expects interim earnings to rise 35% y-on-y

By: Matthew Hill 21st September 2007 JSE-listed timber products firm York expects its diluted headline earnings a share for the half-year ended June 30 to be 35% higher than for the figure for the same period the previous year, it said on Friday. →

Mondi orders containerboard machine for European operations

By: Olivia Soraya Spadavecchia 18th September 2007 Paper and packaging firm Mondi has signed a delivery contract with Metso for a new lightweight recycled containerboard machine with a production capacity of up to 470 000 t/y. →

PG Bison to raise capacity next year, Steinhoff says

By: Mariaan Webb 10th September 2007 Timber firm PG Bison, a wholly owned subsidiary of JSE-listed Steinhoff, would start increasing its capacity early next year, when its North Eastern Cape Forest (NECF) project becomes operational. →

Mondi wraps up acquisitions

By: Olivia Soraya Spadavecchia 5th September 2007 Paper and packaging firm Mondi has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in Turkish corrugated packaging and containerboard business Tire Kutsan. →

Business wants industrial policy implementation to be accelerated

By: Terence Creamer 3rd September 2007 The South African business community is displaying none of the reticence partially attributed to it in reports following the release, by Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa, of the National Industrial Policy Framework (NIPF) in early August, and would, in fact, like to see its... →

Bold forestry-products thrust rooted in rural development, manufacturing aspiration

By: Olivia Soraya Spadavecchia 24th August 2007 Biomass, export quality furniture, 100 000 ha of afforestation, thousands of downstream jobs - the list of possibilities and the potential for the forestry sector in the Eastern Cape and KwZulu-Natal is material. →

Paper group assessing extent of fire damage

By: Brindaveni Naidoo 17th August 2007 Fires continue to damage tracts of timberland in South Africa and Swaziland, says paper and pulp manufacturer Sappi. →

Sappi posts Q3 profit on higher prices, volumes, but input costs still weigh

By: Olivia Soraya Spadavecchia 6th August 2007 Paper producer Sappi on Monday posted a profit for the third quarter of its financial year, on improved European prices and increased export volumes, compared with a loss during the same period last year. →

Fires cost York Timber R103m

By: Olivia Soraya Spadavecchia 2nd August 2007 JSE-listed York Timber expects fire damage to its plantations and mills in the Lowveld to cost R103-million before tax, the company said on Thursday. →

Steep European timber price hikes tapering off - Mondi

By: Matthew Hill 1st August 2007 JSE- and LSE-listed paper and pulp company Mondi said that it had seen timber price increases for its central eastern European operations of as much as 20% for the six months ended June 30, but that these cost hikes seemed to have simmered down. →

Plantation fires damaged less than 5% of Mondi's local forests - CEO

By: Matthew Hill 1st August 2007 Paper and packaging firm Mondi, which separated from diversified mining giant Anglo American last month, said on Wednesday that the fires that had ravaged forests in Mpumalanga since Friday would not have a significant financial effect on the firm. →

York estimates 6 000 ha of plantations damaged by fires

By: Liezel Hill 30th July 2007 Fires, which began over the weekend, had damaged an estimated 6 000 ha of JSE-listed York Timber's plantations, the company reported on Monday. →

Mbeki identifies scaled-up local manufacture as top priority

By: Terence Creamer 29th July 2007 Large-scale value-added local manufacture had been identified as a top priority for the next two years, the President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday, in his report back to the media on the outcomes of the mid-year Cabinet Lekgotla.He also revealed that embattled Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi... →

Newly empowered timber firm mulls Eastern Cape expansion

By: Christy van der Merwe 27th July 2007 South Africa's largest lumber product producer, Hans Merensky Timber (HMT), is newly empowered, with a combination of entities consisting of Vuka Forestry, Wiphold, and an HMT staff trust gaining ownership of a 26% stake in the business. →

Austro to buy three equipment firms for R130,5m

19th July 2007 JSE-listed equipment supplier Austro has agreed to buy three local companies, Generator Hire, the Neptune group and Gearing Moss, for a total of R130,5-million, the firm said on Thursday. →

Dual-listed Mondi believes its empowerment initiatives are in line with new forestry scorecard

By: Olivia Soraya Spadavecchia 13th July 2007 Paper and packaging group Mondi, which recently dual-listed on the London Stock Exchange and the JSE, says that it is in line with the objectives of the new Forestry broad-based black economic-empowerment (BBBEE) Charter. →

York wraps up Global Forests acquisition

By: Nelendhre Moodley 12th July 2007 JSE listed forest products company York Timber (York), which acquired Global Forest Products and South African Plywood (GFP) for some R1,7-billion, on Thursday confirmed that the company had met all suspensive conditions pertaining to the deal. →

HM Timber sells 26% to black group, including Wiphold, Phosa's Vuka

By: Nelendhre Moodley 12th July 2007 Lumber product manufacturer Hans Merensky on Thursday announced that its subsidiary, HM Timber had signed a R260-million black economic-empowerment (BEE) transaction with Wiphold, Vuka Forestry Holdings (Vuka) and its staff. →

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