Saica inaugurated a €100M+ corrugated packaging plant at Sant Esteve Sesrovires near Barcelona — 200M m²/yr, merging the Saica Pack Barcelona and El Prat operations, with digital, flexo and offset printing and production paper waste routed back to Saica's paper mills (Papnews)
BIR's Paper Division asked the EU for a ≥6-month delay to the Digital Waste Shipment System (DIWASS), live since May 21 with a Dec. 31 registration deadline — only tens of the 1,000+ Asian mills taking Europe's 6–8M t/yr of surplus recovered paper have registered, and receiving-plant audits kick in May 21, 2027 (Papnews)
Cepi issued a new edition of its EUDR implementation guidance for the pulp and paper value chain, replacing the June 2025 guide and folding in the Dec. 2025 amendment, the May 2026 simplification package and 2026 secondary legislation; the revised EUDR applies from Dec. 30, 2026 (Papnews)
Update: Bergslagets Skogar has set its first financial targets ahead of a Nov. 3 Capital Markets Day in Stockholm — 1%/yr net standing-stock growth, 2% long-term annual free-cash-flow return, net LTV of 0–20% and an ordinary dividend of 80–100% of adjusted net income — with Tuomas Hallenberg as CEO and headquarters planned in Falun (Papnews)
Forestry & Timber
Claymark is closing its Te Kūiti timber-processing mill in New Zealand's Waitomo district, cutting 35 jobs, as it consolidates volume into its larger Rotorua and Katikati sites on weak markets and rising costs — just as locally planted pine reaches harvest age (B2B News)
Japan's Q3 wood chip imports fell 3.9% y/y to 2.52M t; Vietnam stayed the top supplier but lost 6.8 points of share while Australian shipments rose 33% (Lesprom)
Sweden's 2026 gross felling is projected at 84.6M m³, down 2.4M m³ (2.8%) from last year (EUWID)
Wood Pellets & Biomass
Vietnam's wood pellet exports to Japan fell 10.1% y/y in September even as the average export price rose 1.8% (Lesprom)
