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Paper: Metsä Tissue plans to build a factory in the UK
Metsä Tissue, the tissue paper business of the forest industry group Metsä Group, is planning to invest in a new factory in the UK. The plan consists of 240,000 tonnes of tissue paper production capacity, built in several phases over the next decade. The plans are...
Plastics: priority categories to be improved in terms of recyclability
Launched in 2018 as part of the European Strategy for Plastics, with the aim of using at least 10 million tonnes of recycled plastics in the EU by 2025, the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) is now defining more precisely what needs to be done to reach its targets. In...
Rare earth: China increases quota by 20 percent to record levels
China increased its annual rare earth production quotas on Thursday by 20% to the highest level ever recorded. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 2021 rare earth mining production was set at 168,000 tonnes, up from 140,000 tonnes last...
Copper: Resolution project still on standby
Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm's visit to Arizona underscores the importance of Resolution the company has spent more than $2 billion on the project over the past decade) but without yet producing copper, the red metal used in electric vehicles and other electronic...