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TAPPI’s Fiber Molding Committee is kicking off new activities—join now to get involved.

The TAPPI Nonwovens Committee is preparing to ramp up its activities again after a brief hiatus.

More than 175 delegates from 26 countries assembled in Girona, Spain July 8-11, for the 2025 TAPPI International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials (“TAPPI Nano”). This was the fourteenth occurrence of the TAPPI Nano conference, dating back to 2009.

The  American Forest Foundation (AFF) announced today that Netflix has committed to a 15-year contract to purchase verified carbon credits produced through AFF’s Fields & Forests project (F&F), an Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) carbon project that partners with family landowners to transition their underused fields to thriving, working forests. 

Twin Rivers Paper Company (“Twin Rivers”), a leading producer of specialty paper products, proudly marks a century of papermaking, operational excellence, product innovation, and a strong commitment to the communities where it operates.

Driven by the overcapacity resulting from exceptional market developments during the past years, UPM Adhesive Materials continues centralizing its label material production to more cost competitive units and is planning to discontinue label materials production at its Nancy factory in France.

The PM7 (Paper Machine) from Munksjö Caieiras, located in São Paulo, Brazil, has recently undergone a major modernization as part of the company’s ExpanDecor project, which is the largest investment in Munksjö’s history in Latin America. Runtech delivered ropeless tail threading system to PM7, featuring Runshooter technology with detailed engineering and startup support for the dryer section. With the upgrade Caieiras targeted more fluent and faster tail threading and improved operator safety.

To meet the growing demand for recyclable packaging, Royal Vaassen, in collaboration with UPM Specialty Papers, has developed several recyclable* and food-safe barrier paper solutions for a variety of end-use applications. The Barryrwrap concept by Royal Vaassen addresses packaging needs ranging from medium to the most demanding barrier requirements, including oxygen and moisture barrier properties.

 Metsä Group, a leading Finnish forest industry group whose operations span pulp, paperboard, tissue, and wood products, has started operating a carbon capture pilot plant at its Rauma mill, in cooperation with technology company Andritz, which supplied the plant. The pilot will test the capture of carbon dioxide from pulp mill flue gases, an application not previously trialed in the industry.