Europe

Construction of a new 167m (244m) joint power plant at UPMs Kaukas mill in Lappeenranta, Finland, has been kick-started as part of the Finnish paper manufacturers strategy to use biofuels.

Print manager Charterhouse has extended its relationship with car giant Renault, with a new long-term deal.

Europes most powerful gravure printer has given a stark prognosis for web offset and claimed that printers fail to understand their role in the publishing process.

International policing organisations are toughening their fight against euro counterfeiting following a series of seizures both inside and out of the European Union.

Agfa Graphics sold more than 50 platesetters at last months Graphispag 2007 pre-press and printing exhibition in Barcelona, exceeding its own pre-show targets.

Stora Enso is planning to close down its Sauga sawmill in Estonia in June owing to a continued shortage of raw material, resulting in unprofitable operations.

Procter & Gamble, the fast-moving consumer goods giant, is to sell its Western European tissue and towel business to global consumer goods and paper company SCA.

UPM has announced that eight companies operating at its Voikkaa Business Yard, located at UPMs Voikkaa paper mill in Finland, have given jobs to more than 100 former employees of the mill.