Advance Agro to sell its paper in the US

Advance Agro is to sell its Double A paper in the US, according to a company press release.

Thailand: Advance Agro plans new 500,000 t/yr pulp mill

By Chris Lang (June 2007):

In December 2006, Pulp and Paper International magazine reported that Advance Agro planned to expand its operations in Thailand with a 500,000 tonnes a year pulp mill and a 500,000 tonnes a year paper mill. The company completed a feasibility study in 2006, and has submitted an environmental impact assessment to the Thai authorities. Advance Agro’s managing director, Yothin Dumnernchanvanit told Pulp and Paper International that the plans would only go ahead if Advance Agro believed that there was a market for the paper: “We don’t want to collapse the market by introducing new capacity when demand is low and prices are down,” he said.

Say goodbye to the forests – Here comes Oji Paper

By Chris Lang. Published in Watershed, June 2006.

Oji Paper, one of the world’s largest pulp and paper companies, is moving into the Mekong Region. Oji Paper has established large-scale industrial tree plantation projects in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. Here and elsewhere in the world the results are deforestation and destroyed livelihoods as the company replaces villagers’ forest and common land with its monocultures.

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Siam Pulp and Paper plans new paper mill

Thailand’s largest integrated paper producer, Siam Pulp and Paper (SPP), is planning to build a 200,000 t/yr paper mill in Amphur Nampong in Khon Kaen province, north east Thailand. Pulp for the mill will come from Phoenix Pulp and Paper’s mill also in Amphur Nampong. Phoenix is a subsidiary of SPP.