Financial

Britain's Fiberweb Plc posted a lower first-half profit, hurt by sharply increasing raw material prices, but the nonwoven fabrics maker said it expects full-year performance to be slightly ahead of last year.

Kimberly-Clark has reported details of its second quarter 2008 results.

Polymer Group, Inc. (PGI) reported results from operations for the second quarter and six-month periods ended June 28, 2008.

Ahlstrom Corporation has reported key financial highlights from the April-June 2008 period.

Lydall has released financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2008.

Buckeye Technologies Inc. has announced sales and earnings results for the fourth quarter.

Suominen Corporation's net sales for the second quarter totaled €55.2 million, an increase from €51.2 in the second quarter of 2007.

Weyerhaeuser, Federal Way, WA, reported a net loss of $96 million for the second quarter of 2008 on net sales of $3.6 billion.

Procter & Gamble announced net sales growth of 10% for the April-June quarter to $21.3 billion and 9% net sales growth for the fiscal year to $83.5 billion.

The Procter & Gamble Company has released sales and earnings results for the October-December quarter of 2008.

SCA announced sales results for the period January to March 2011.

Procter & Gamble reported net sales increased 5% for the January-to-March quarter to $20.2 billion driven by 5% volume growth, as well as favorable pricing and foreign exchange, partially offset by geographic and product mix.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation reported $5 billion in net sales for the first quarter of 2011, an increase of 4%.

The Hartmann Group recorded sales revenues of $2.4 billion—an increase of 4.6% compared to the previous year.

Buckeye Technologies has announced third quarter net income of $28.7 million compared to net income of $19.3 million in the same period oflast year.

3M has closed its first quarter with increases in both sales and earnings.

Suominen Corporation generated net sales of $65.6 million in the first quarter 2011.

Lydall announced sales results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011.Lydall's sales for the quarter totaled $108.1 million, a 43% increase from the first quarter 2010, primarily attributable to the Thermal/Acoustical and Performance Materials segments, which reported $21.4 million (or 52.9%) and $9.3 million (or 34.3%), respectively, higher net sales in first quarter of 2011 than the same period in the prior year.

DuPont's company sales for the first quarter of 2011 were $10 billion with 9% higher sales volume, 8% higher local price and a 1% increase from portfolio changes.

Ahlstrom generated first-quarter 2011 net sales of $728 million, an increased of 11.5% compared with $653 million in the first quarter of 2010.