Sugar pulp can be applied as a sustainable substitute for wood fibre to produce paper on an industrial scale. Crown Van Gelder recently signed a Letter of Intent with Cosun Beet Company for the joint development of innovative solutions for sustainable paper and packaging materials.
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The company suspended its Corner Brook forest operations on Saturday August 9 and stopped pulp and paper mill operations on August 15 owing to
limited . Kruger expects the mill to be closed until the end of August or beginning of September.
The mill is a newsprint producer with 230,000 tonnes per year of capacity that primarily serves customers in Europe and Asia.
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