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Essity has once again been recognized for its leadership in sustainability by the global non-profit environmental organization CDP. The company is awarded a place on CDP's prestigious A List for its work in combating deforestation.

Valmet and Opal have agreed to extend the Mill Maintenance Operations Agreement and thus continue the long-term co-operation for mill maintenance services at Opal's B9 board making line in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

CDP's evaluation is based on the company's disclosure about its strategy, targets, governance, risks and opportunities, risk management and actions in the last reporting year related to climate change mitigation and development of low-carbon technology and solutions.

The equipment installation is expected to be completed during the second half of 2023.

Mondi has started production at its €16 million plant in Tangier (Morocco), increasing production capacity in West Africa to over 500 million bags each year.

Stora Enso is investing Euro 38 million in unbleached kraft pulp (UKP) production at its Enocell site in Finland and Euro 42 million in fluff pulp production improvement at its Skutskär site in Sweden. These investments will support the growing consumer demand for non-bleached renewable packaging materials and hygiene products respectively.

Georgia-Pacific's $425 million investment is the largest single investment in the history of Jackson.

Södra's research foundation is now distributing seven million kroner to nine research projects to promote the development of family forestry. A number of the projects focus on how forestry is affected by an increasingly warmer climate in Sweden.

The department contends Nippon went over discharge limits three times at the sanitary treatment plant in November 2020, according to a notice of penalty the ecology department sent to Nippon.

Joséphine Edwall Björklund, Essity's Senior Vice President, Communications, and member of the company's Executive Management Team, will adopt a new role at Essity and will therefore be leaving the Executive Management Team.

PT. Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper ("PT. RAPP"), the operating arm of the leading sustainable fibre and product producer Asia Pacific Resources International Limited ("APRIL"), a member of the Singapore-headquartered Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) group of companies founded by Sukanto Tanoto, has received an award for the largest foreign investment in the Riau Province in Indonesia, for the January to September period in 2022.

UPM has agreed to sell the Renforsin Ranta business park in Kajaani to Kansallisholding Oy. The site will be operated by Redeve Oy, the parent company of Kansallisholding, specialising in the ownership and development of industrial real estate.

Many consumers say they would pay more for sustainable packaging.

UPM has been listed in the Dow Jones European and World Sustainability Indices (DJSI) for 2022-2023 as the only company in its industry. The DJSI indices cover environmental, social and governance aspects of responsibility.

Stephen J. Smith to Retire, Eric J. Guerin to Become SVP and CFO, Effective March 1, 2023.

Prinzhorn Group, having a strategic long term interest in Italy, has made a proposal to acquire corrugated packaging plant Scatolificio La Veggia S.p.A. ("SLV"), Roteglia, which is part of the La Veggia Group of companies in the course of a restructuring process under Italian law.

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Rayonier added its first female director to its board in 1994. Currently three female directors serve on its 10-member board, two of whom have joined since 2020.

More than 85% of the 123 voting members with United Steelworkers Local 27 voted to reject a contract offer from the company and authorize a strike earlier this week.

I think my long-term proclamation that all energy is political (which is proven true every day in the popular press), licenses me to wander a bit from our normal management and technical topics here as we attempt to figure out how to get the pulp and paper industry through this coming Northern Hemisphere winter.

Our mill got a call one day from Wisconsin Electric Power Company (WEPCO), asking if we were doing anything unusual? As it so happened, we were restarting the mill after the spring shut down and maintenance. Why did they ask?

In a recent article from the European Rubber Journal, it states that a "new sustainable rubber chemicals derived from waste produced by the pulp & paper industry are among the targets of a project that has just received €2.8 million in EU funding. The ZEBRA-LIFE project is based on a thermo-oxidative depolymerisation process, developed by CENER, to extract high-value-added bio-aromatic compounds from lignin."/p>

Pregis®, a leading global manufacturer of flexible packaging and protective packaging solutions, recently added digital printing capabilities at production facilities across North America, offering customers high-impact protection and impactful brand messaging with the Pregis EverTec™ curbside recyclable padded mailer.

Valmet will supply a complete automation solution to Melitta Europa for its paper production plant in Minden, Germany.

The installation is scheduled to start in May 2023.