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Pixelle Invests $1.4 Million in Mill Safety and Productivity with Industry First Robotics

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Technology, Packaging, Hispanic, Robotics, Manufacturing, Consumer, Machinery, Other Natural Resources, Environment, Sustainability, Forest Products, Natural Resources, Hardware, Other Manufacturing, PA, Multimedia, Paper, Valmet, FANUC, Safety, Automation, Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, Pulp and paper industry, Perceptive Pixel

Pixelle Specialty Solutions (“Pixelle”), a leading manufacturer of specialty papers in North America, has improved safety and productivity at its Spring Grove, Pennsylvania facility by installing a smelt spout robot manufactured by Valmet.

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  • Pixelle Specialty Solutions (“Pixelle”), a leading manufacturer of specialty papers in North America, has improved safety and productivity at its Spring Grove, Pennsylvania facility by installing a smelt spout robot manufactured by Valmet.
  • The smelt robot is essential for keeping recovery boiler spouts open and improving efficiencies in the liquor recovery cycle.
  • The first smelt robot installation of its kind in North America, the robot regularly cleans the recovery boiler smelt spouts ensuring stable smelt flow, optimum cleaning and safer boiler operation, without manual intervention.
  • “By helping Pixelle reach new levels of safety and boiler performance, this industry first project will help change perceptions about what is possible in pulp and paper.”

Lindsay Goldberg Enters into Agreement to Sell Pixelle Specialty Solutions LLC to H.I.G. Capital

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Monday, April 4, 2022
Forest Products, Natural Resources, Other Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Group, LLP, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Industry, Lindsay Goldberg, Partnership, Ropes & Gray, Jefferies, H.I.G. Capital, Financial services, Perceptive Pixel

Pixelle Specialty Solutions Holding LLC (Pixelle or the Company), a leading provider of fiber-based specialty solutions in North America and portfolio company of Lindsay Goldberg, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of H.I.G.

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  • Pixelle Specialty Solutions Holding LLC (Pixelle or the Company), a leading provider of fiber-based specialty solutions in North America and portfolio company of Lindsay Goldberg, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of H.I.G.
  • Pixelle was formed in 2018 by Lindsay Goldberg, a private investment firm that focuses on partnering with families, founders and management teams seeking to actively build their businesses.
  • Pixelle has built an industry-leading four-mill specialty paper platform with mills in Chillicothe, OH; Jay, ME; Spring Grove, PA; and Stevens Point, WI.
  • Timothy Hess, Pixelles Chief Executive Officer, said, Together with Lindsay Goldberg, Pixelle has developed a broad, innovative portfolio of industry leading brands across the specialty papers and sustainable packaging markets.