Stora Enso News

With a declining paper industry and an economic recession, a locally based company is developing new products from recycled materials.

Stora Enso has implemented at its Imatra mill in Finland Metso's Advance Quality Control system for bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp production to reduce energy costs and pulp quality variability.

Chinese officials have reportedly continued to make threats against a lawyer who has defended local farmers in Guanxin Province in the south of China.

Finnish refiner Neste Oil has opened a biomass-to-liquids demonstration facility in Varkaus, Finland to produce renewable diesel from wood residues, the company said Thursday.

Stora Enso and Neste Oil inaugurate today the demonstration plant at Varkaus for biomass to liquids production utilising forestry residues.

GreenBiz.com, 20 May 2009 - Consumer-facing companies and sectors with a history of environmental challenges often excel at communicating their corporate social responsibility efforts, according to the latest findings from a California-based research institute.

The Finnish-Swedish forest industry giant Stora Enso is planning a massive investment in pulp production in Uruguay.

It will still take 7-10 years before new feedstocks for biodiesel are developed to commercial scale, even as biofuel producers look to diversify their feedstock base away from vegetable oils, Simo Honkanen, Neste Oil's senior vice president for sustainability said over the weekend.

Source: Stora Enso Oyj HELSINKI, Finland, May 20, 2009 -- Stora Enso Oyj will publish four interim reviews in 2010.

Finnish paper maker Stora Enso Oyj said Monday it will buy 130,000 hectares of forest in Uruguay with Chilean company Arauco, in a purchase valued at euro344 million .

May 14, 2009 InfoTrends and 4IT group, organizers of the European TransPromo Summit, announced today that Stora Enso has signed as a Silver Sponsor.

Jouko Karvinen , CEO of the pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso, is not interested in proposals that pulp producers, paper manufacturers, and papermaking machinery producers should start buying forest companies on developing markets.

It might have been better if lawyer Yang Zaixin had not answered that telephone call.

A forest industry company, which was working as a subcontractor of Stora Enso in China, was involved in a clash at the company's eucalyptus plantation last Saturday.

Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen says that Finland is contacting Chinese officials immediately concerning the land disputes linked with the activities in China of the forest company Stora Enso.

Both Minister of Economic Affairs Mauri Pekkarinen and Minister of Defence Jyri Hakamies voiced concern on Thursday about the situation in the Finnish forest industry.

Metal components company Rautaruukki and steel manufacturer Outokumpu have reported dismal first quarter earnings.

Two major brokers made contrasting rating changes on European paper producers Stora Enso and UPM-Kymmene on Friday ahead of earnings updates due at the end of April.

"Stora Enso faced high cost inflation, especially in wood and energy costs, throughout the whole of 2008.

Stora Enso Oyj was informed today 25 March 2009 that the number of shares in the Company held by AXA S.A. and its subsidiaries has decreased below 5% of the paid-up share capital and the number of shares in Stora Enso Oyj on 19 March 2009.