Domtar Expanding to Become a Leading Airlaid Nonwovens Provider

Sappi offers Transjet Tacky Industrial, a coated dye sublimation paper for digital transfer printing, specially developed for high-speed inkjet printing on highly elastic textiles. Also new is the uncoated dye sublimation paper Basejet, which has been developed for light designs for high-speed digital printing of fashion and home textiles. · Transjet Tacky Industrial: Immediate tack effect, high ink transfer, fast ink drying; no ghosting on elastic textiles thanks to reversible tack · Basejet: Consistent print quality for light designs, fast ink-drying, very fast transfer process. Transjet Tacky Industrial enables highly elastic fabrics to be printed on industrial high-speed machines that work with a higher glycol content, such as printheads from Kyocera. The paper is first printed with the desired image or pattern which is then transferred to the elastic polyester fabric by means of heat and pressure.

Along with members of the community, provincial and federal elected representatives, staff at Meadow Lake Mechanical Pulp mill (MLMP) and Paper Excellence Canada today celebrated 30 years of the pulp mill being in operation. The mill is located just east of Meadow Lake and has been operational since 1992. MLMP was the first mill Paper Excellence Canada acquired in 2007. The mill employs over 200 full-time employees, creates approximately 1,300 direct and indirect jobs, and creates approximately $470 million in economic activity annually. MLMP produces approximately 400,000 tonnes of bleached chemi-thermal mechanical pulp (BCTMP) annually. BCTMP is used to make a variety of products from tissue and paper towel to food and board packaging.

Comments by the CEO: The third quarter was another solid quarter for Billerud. As we had planned, our net sales grew, and profitability improved in both regions. The positive profitability trend we have seen from the beginning of the year continued. The Group’s EBITDA margin ended at 14%, our strongest result since Q4 2022. Production stability was solid in the quarter and our scheduled maintenance stops in three mills went according to plan. Yet again, region North America delivered an excellent financial performance with double digit sales growth and 18% EBITDA margin. All our categories in the US contributed to the strong result. In Region Europe, our fiber cost continued to increase, while most other input costs declined. Also for this quarter, we were successfully able to offset the cost inflation by proactive pricing and portfolio management for Europe. This is key and it will continue to be one of our top priorities going forward. Region Europe reached an EBITDA margin of 16%, the highest profitability in two years. Our efficiency enhancement program continues to deliver structural savings. Disciplined work to eliminate price point outliers in the customer base as well as to increase our field-purchased pulpwood in the vicinity of our Swedish mills produces positive effects.