It will now be quicker and more efficient for American manufacturers of corrugated board to apply tape directly in the corrugator. This follows from the release by the Swedish company AssiDomän of the Wellpack Taper, its successful tear tape applicator, onto the American market. The unveiling will take place at the industry exposition, SuperCorrExpo 2000, in Atlanta at the end of October.

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Stora Enso's Baienfurt mill is the first European box board producer to gain accreditation by the German RWTÜV for the introduction of stringent risk assessment systems normally applied in the food industry.

When the new high-speed trains on the Arlanda line rush along at over 200 km/h, they get dusty and caked in insects. Cleaning them might seem easy, but the environmental requirements, the more-than-100-metre length of the trains and the operating voltage of 16,000 volts make it a challenge. Kambre AB, a company specialising in various means of cleaning vehicles, has found a solution that provides both better results and a cleaner environment.

The award for quality has been given to Stora Enso by IKEA. It relates to the production of the Swedish furniture group's main catalogue, said to be the world's largest printed matter. Around 110m copies are printed world wide.

The most modern facility in Europe for advanced surgical dressings has been inaugurated in Mikkeli (St. Michael), Finland. Behind this investment of about SEK 200 million and 100 newly created jobs is Mölnlycke Health Care of Sweden. Their leading edge technology in this branch is the patented Safetac line, silicon-coated surgical dressing products which have well-documented patient-friendly and healing characteristics.

The Swedish conveyor belt company Sicon Roulunds has just been awarded a special prize by the trade organisation SCEMMI in its "Scandinavian First Maintenance Service Award" competition.

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Punctured and subsequently repaired tyres of the two most commonly used types in Europe for motorcycles and scooters have survived comprehensive high speed tests carried out by TÜV (Technischer Überwachungsverein) in Germany, with good results. Four popular types of car tyre were also tested and were driven problem-free after nail punctures had been repaired by using the same method. The car tyres were in addition subjected to an extra long test while under load. Two of the Safety Seal repair methods were thus proved to pass this recent impartial testing.

This year there will be more opportunities than ever before to establish international business contacts at Scandinavia's largest industrial trade fair, Scandinavian Technical Fair with Machine Tools 2000 arranged in Stockholm October 17-21. The fair has grown 20 per cent in size from last year and will include some 650 exhibitors representing 1300 companies from 25 countries, among others Russia, Poland, Taiwan, China, USA, France, Japan, UK and Germany