Power costs to feature in Tasman mill review

Power costs to feature in Tasman mill review
Gavin Evans
Norske Skog says New Zealand’s high and volatile electricity prices remain a concern and will feature in the review underway of its newsprint operation at Kawerau.Demand for publication paper in Australia and NZ is down 25 percent this year in what the company believes is a permanent change.It is now reviewing the operation, with one option being to stop making newsprint and instead convert the plant’s pulp process to make bleached chemical thermo-mechanical pulp – a product better suited for packaging products.“The BCTM...

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