M-real Consumer Packaging Business Area has joined the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC). The move underlines the company's commitment to sustainability, and complements the major internal measures it has taken over the past decade to reduce wastage and weight in the production of paperboard.

Kemiart Ultra has been the latest addition to Kemiart Liners’ range of high-performance coated white-top kraftliners. Feedback from M-real customers shows that Kemiart Ultra can be postprinted without drying equipment and no loss of efficiency in production. Depending on the press equipment, printing speeds from 6,000 to 15,000 sheets per hour have been achieved with in-line die cutting.

M-real is investing €7million in a new winder at its Kirkniemi Mill, Finland, to meet the increasing quality standards and need for higher production efficiency set by new wider HSWO (heat-set web offset) printing presses. The new winder will be installed on paper machine line 1, producing Galerie Lite publishing paper, and represents the latest technology in winding.

Modern birch plywood often competes for the same usages as light metals and composite materials thanks to its lightness, strength, firmness and hardiness. However, it is considerably cheaper than its competitors and more environmentally friendly at the same time.

Paper Profiles for all of M-real’s Galerie Papers – Galerie Lite, Galerie Brite, Galerie One, Galerie Fine and Galerie Art - have now been updated to include 2006 figures. They are available on M-real’s website www.m-real.com, with a hyperlink to Paper Profiles on the home page.

M-real announces that PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) forest labelling is now carried by its Galerie range of publishing papers, including Galerie Lite, Galerie Brite, Galerie One, Galerie Fine and Galerie Art. The PEFC logo and certification will automatically be printed on reel labels and delivery documentation This signifies that the mills manufacturing these grades know that the wood originates from certified forests and is documented under the PEFC Chain of Custody standard.

New ownership structure to support Eltel’s future growth. 3i today announced that it has signed an agreement with the Industri Kapital 2000 Fund to purchase Eltel Networks, a leading provider of construction and maintenance services for telecommunications and electricity networks in Europe. The transaction is subject to competition authorities’ approvals.

* designers, printers, publishers and advertisers to benefit from faithful colour reproduction A new service from the paper company M-real enables publishers, printers, and catalogue producers to deliver the absolute consistency of colour reproduction their markets demand.

The cruise industry is continuously addressing new markets, both geographically and in terms of new categories of passengers. This calls for new customer concepts and in addition to the ever more important environmental and safety issues, it has put totally new demands also on ship design and ship building.