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Longtime International Paper and Georgia-Pacific papermaker Jeff Reese passed away Wednesday, 30 Oct. 2019. He was 56.

Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited will be shutting down one of its two paper machines for 11 days.

The company blames lumber markets, weather, labour shortages and equipment.

WestRock is closing its Newark plant, potentially putting more than 100 employees out of work.

ArborGen Brazil will begin operating the nursery on November 1st, 2019.

Kemira announced a significant capacity extension of its ferric sulfate water treatment chemicals production line in Goole, UK.

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This is innovation and strategy month here at Nip Impressions. The sources of innovation (which can either lead or lag a strategic vision) are many. These days, it is popular to do innovation in an institutional environment with government or other deep pocket funding. That’s OK, however there is another way of which I am fond. That is when we do innovation out of necessity or when a bright entrepreneur has an “Aha!” moment. Here is one of those...

Great Pacific Capital Corp. is buying company's remaining shares at $16 each.

Klabin SA will invest 3.8 billion reais ($950 million) in its 'Puma 2' containerboard expansion project next year, and will end 2019 with lower stocks of cellulose than it did last year, executives said on Tuesday.

Cascades Inc. announces that it will permanently close tissue converting operations at its Waterford, New York and Kingman, Arizona plants, effective March 27, 2020.

The book business, acquired in 2010 as part of the World Color transaction, generates around $200 million in sales annually. It has facilities in Versailles, Kentucky, Fairfield, Pennsylvania and Martinsburg, West Virginia with around 1,350 full- and part-time employees.

A roughly 350,300-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisc. has been acquired by ND Paper, an Illinois-based paper and paper products maker, according to county records.

In a letter, GP says it offered all 55 employees positions at other locations in the area. Twenty-seven people accepted jobs; the remaining 28 chose not to.

Roseburg Forest Products held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday (Oct. 28, 2019) to celebrate the grand opening of its newly constructed Chester, S.C., engineered wood plant, the company reported.

The company won 13 awards - the most of any entrant - including the Sustainability Award of the Year.

International Paper on 30 Oct. 2019 announced that it has completed the sale of its controlling interest (21,873,521 shares) in International Paper APPM Limited, an India-based printing paper business, to West Coast Paper Mills Limited for approximately $85 million.

The Town of Fort Frances faces a looming deadline while it works hard to find a buyer for the former Resolute paper mill.

Prominent New Brunswick philanthropist Jean Irving died Tuesday morning.

Beetles, tariffs and mill closures have cut into Canada's share of the U.S. lumber market, lifting prices by about a third over the past year and shifting even more logging to the U.S. Southeast.

Vote shows 99.6 percent of members opposed to proposed deal.

At present, no one in the world can recycle fibres from blended fabrics on a large scale. Södra now has a unique solution that will enable circular flows in the fashion and textile industry.

DuPont de Nemours Inc. never intended to saddle its spinoff Chemours Co. with "unlimited exposure" to its liabilities, DuPont's former chief executive officer said.

The director of strategy for Global Win Capital, the subsidiary of Shanying International that owns Phoenix Paper, said it has stalled production at the paper mill until around Nov. 11.

Maryland environmental officials said they are investigating a chemical leak from a recently shuttered paper mill on the Upper Potomac River that has discolored part of the river and could harm aquatic life.