Ahlstrom-Munksjö develops new testing capabilities, helping to accelerate its leading position in markets of Electric Vehicles and Industrial Filtration

Rayonier Advanced Materials announced that Joshua C. Hicks is joining the company as Senior Vice President, High Purity Cellulose to lead the High Purity Cellulose business. Hicks brings nearly 20 years of business leadership experience in the chemical and advanced materials industries, most recently as Vice President, Global Industrial Solutions for Univar Solutions, a global chemical and ingredients distributor and provider of value-added services. In this role, he was responsible for a $1.3 billion global specialty chemicals and ingredients division. He previously worked for Nexeo Solutions, acquired by Univar in 2019, in various specialty chemical business unit leadership positions overseeing coatings and construction, personal care, and energy. Hicks began his career with Dow Chemical in various commercial and leadership roles of increasing responsibility across multiple business units.

Building Strong Relationships reviews 2021 and looks at both our achievements and our opportunities to do better. In particular, it highlights the work we did in building relationships with the Indigenous communities in whose traditional territories we operate and our corporate giving campaign which had a greatly increased budget in 2021. The report also looks at our environmental and economic impacts nationally and on a mill-by-mill basis. From an environmental standpoint, 85% of our total energy use was renewable in 2021 and we have continued to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions—now down by 66% since 1990. From an economic perspective, the total economic activity created by Paper Excellence Canada operations was $4.8 billion. “Paper Excellence Canada’s spent this last year putting our words into action and I’m proud of what we have achieved,” said Graham Kissack, Vice President, Environment, Health & Safety and Corporate Communications. “Our vision is to be a profitable, sustainable, and globally competitive fibre products provider that is environmentally and economically beneficial to all stakeholders and this year’s achievements have supported us in that aim.”

Total European shipments of graphic papers in October 2020 were down 18.7% vs. October 2019 and are down 19.9% year-to-date. Total European shipments of newsprint in October 2020 were down 21.6% vs. October 2019 and are down 18.7% year-to-date. Total European shipments of sc-magazine in October 2020 were down 16.5% vs. October 2019 and are down 18.8% year-to-date. Total European shipments of coated mechanical reels in October 2020 were down 24.0% vs. October 2019 and are down 27.2% year-to-date. Total European shipments of uncoated mechanical (improved & others) in October 2020 were down 5.0% vs. October 2019 and are down 8.5% year-to-date. Total European shipments of coated woodfree in October 2020 were down 27.1% vs. October 2019 and are down 26.5% year-to-date. Total European shipments of uncoated woodfree in October 2020 were down 10.3% vs. October 2019 and are down 14.3% year-to-date.