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Sonoco announced it is implementing a 6% price increase for tubes and cores products sold in Mexico starting with May 2024 deliveries.

At present, the maintenance of the company's plywood and Kerto LVL mills has been outsourced to the industrial maintenance company Quant.

"The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power" by Daniel Yergin is the definitive book on the history of oil up until the current energy craziness we have been experiencing for the last fifteen years or so. It is also a great documentary available for free on YouTube. I highly recommend the documentary. Unfortunately, "The Prize" stops where modern energy follies start.

Acquisition to Enhance Existing Capabilities in Paperboard Manufacturing

Transaction further advances Twin Rivers' focus on core specialty papers business.

Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. (RYAM) is announcing that, effective July 2, 2024, it will suspend operations at its Temiscaming High Purity Cellulose (HPC) plant for an indefinite period.

The temporary curtailments will impact all of Interfor's operating regions, including the US South, through a combination of reduced operating hours, prolonged holiday breaks, reconfigured shifting schedules and extended maintenance shut-downs.

CMPC has signed a deal with Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul to evaluate building a new pulp plant there, which would require $4 billion in investments, it said on Monday .

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Firefighters were dispatched at 9:25 p.m. Monday to an area between the lagoon and the mill where 15 refrigerator-sized bales of cardboard were on fire, according to a Port Angeles Fire Department press release.

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation has fined Domtar $64,650 for violating its water discharge permit multiple times in the months following startup of its new Kingsport recycled packaging facility.

SCA increases the prices on brown and white kraftliner in Europe by €60 per tonne. The new price is valid from June 1, 2024

Updated ESG targets reflect pledge to become Better, Every Day.

West Fraser Timber continues to expect total lumber shipments in 2024 will be largely similar to 2023 levels.

Muskogee's largest private employer, Georgia Pacific announces a $50-million expansion at its port of Muskogee mill. This is a big deal not just for Georgia-Pacific - but also for the port and city where the company continues to make big investments.

This is exactly the same column I delivered up to you for the last week in March. At that time, I was talking about housekeeping and how it relates to maintenance. Housekeeping is strongly tied into safety, too. Read it again, please. This is the column I promised you last week. Your reaction will be either scoffing at it or believing it--there will be no middle of the road reactions. If you decide to believe, contact me and I will help you, at no charge, to get started.

Mativ Holdings, Inc. announced it has appointed Dr. Kimberly E. Ritrievi as Chair of the Board of Directors, succeeding Dr. John D. Rogers, who will continue to serve as a director of Mativ and will assume the role of Audit Committee Chair.

UPM Raflatac's RafCycle™ recycling service recently won the 2024 Innovator Award for Innovation in a Recovery Technology or Practice at the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) Impact event.

Sonoco Products Company, one of the largest global sustainable packaging companies, released its 2023 Corporate Sustainability Report which highlights progress made in support of its environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives.

The negotiation agreement, now endorsed by the European Parliament, brought significant changes compared to the original proposal for the regulation by the European Commission specifically in relation to restrictions of packaging formats in HORECA sector and to take-away re-use targets.

Georgia-Pacific's Albany Lumber has produced its 1 billionth boardfoot. The record-setting board rolled off the production line on April 18, just four years after the facility opened in 2020.

Suzano Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Suzano, the world's largest market pulp producer, is funding up to US$5 million for Canadian startup, Bioform Technologies.

The enhancement will increase the mill's folding boxboard output by approximately 10,000 tonnes annually, raising its total capacity to around 310,000 tonnes.