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Stora Enso owns 1.4 million hectares of land in Sweden, and the company is one of the country's largest forest owners.

MM Kotkamills is investing about Euro 30 million in two state-of-the-art cross cutters with automated core and waste handling. The investment is aimed at strengthening MM Kotkamills' position as a supplier of cartonboard sheets in the European cartonboard market.

AquaStop™ is the latest Better Planet Packaging innovation.

Mondi to display full packaging portfolio at leading pet food trade fair Interzoo in Germany to demonstrate how innovative flexible solutions can help the industry become more sustainable.

Suzano also launches a revitalized Sustainability Center disclosing over 450 KPIs.

PurposeSeal™ is a heat-sealed paper carefully constructed to ensure quality and protection for end-use packaging solutions.

Packaging Corporation of America announced that it intends to increase the quarterly cash dividend on its common stock to an annual payout of $5.00 per share from $4.00 per share, a 25% increase.

If you have read this column for any length of time, I am about to repeat something you have heard before. I am always in favor of removing obsolete and unused equipment quickly with one glaring exception. That exception is this: power plants.

President, Segment Pulp & Paper Kim Poulsen is leaving Kemira on Wednesday May 18, 2022. He has worked for Kemira and has been a member of Kemira's Management Board since 2015.

Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. ("SWM") and Neenah, Inc. ("Neenah"), two leading global manufacturers of specialty materials, announced the future executive leadership team and operating structure for the combined company, effective upon completing their pending merger.

A supply chain backlog and rail car shortage will continue to trouble the Taylor mill through summer and likely into the fall.

It's been almost a month and a half since WestRock made the announcement to close the Panama City Paper Mill. Some would say they never expected the day to come when the Panama City paper mill would close its doors for good.

First Nation wants title to Lot 450, including mill lands.

Sonoco, one of the leading global sustainable packaging companies, announced favorable results from a recent study by trial with Sustana in collaboration with Kellogg's, providing new opportunities to recycle paper containers.

A fire broke out in a section of the International Paper Mill in Prattville on May 16, which caused an evacuation of personnel and which is still under investigation.

Crews found a fire in a compacting machine there and were able to get it under control in less than an hour.

Both kilns were destroyed.

Mirax Group has reached an agreement to acquire Interfor Corporation's Avalon Dryland Log Sort ("Avalon") assets located in Port Mellon, British Columbia, Canada, and will operate through a wholly-owned affiliated company, Avalon Log Sort Inc. Pursuant to the agreement, Mirax Group will acquire all real property assets of Avalon and will retain all employees.

Weyerhaeuser Company today announced the appointment of David M. Wold as senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective immediately. Wold has served as vice president and chief accounting officer since May 2019, and he replaces Nancy Loewe, who is leaving the company.

The collective agreement covers approximately 700 employees. The details of the agreement are confidential until union leadership presents its terms to members in the coming days.

Stora Enso has divested its three corrugated packaging plants in Russia. The Company's Lukhovitsy, Arzamas and Balabanovo packaging plants have been divested to local management.

Sylvamo owns the Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Mill in Leningrad region, Russia. The Svetogorsk mill employs more than 1700 people and produces printing papers, liquid packaging board and innovative BCTMP.

Fire crews responded early Friday morning, May 13, to a fire at the WestRock facility in Camillus, New York.

Weyerhaeuser has until May 19 to make the payments, according to court documents.