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WestRock Company announced that Pat Lindner, president, Consumer Packaging, has been named chief innovation officer in addition to his leadership role of the Company's Consumer Packaging segment.

This initiative aims to reduce the impact of climate change by encouraging the use of paper bags, given it is a renewable and recyclable solution.

Exports will begin in 2023.

GE announced an order for a multiyear services agreement with Sappi, the global provider of sustainable woodfibre products and solutions.

The board machine will produce coated recycled board (CRB) grades (white line chip board, WLC grades) with an annual capacity of approximately 500,000 short tons which corresponds to 454,000 metric tons.

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Greif, Inc. announced that it is ceasing operations at its Number 1 paperboard machine at the Mobile Paperboard Mill in Mobile, Alabama.

They will be exiting the following segments of its specialty business: • Pressure Sensitive • Embedded Cards • Dimensional Items • Magnets.

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Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against an ex-finance manager from Weyerhaeuser who is accused of stealing at least $4.5 million from the timber business.

Responding to the technologic advancements in the label market, Twin Rivers enhanced the formulation of Alliance Release, a base paper used in the production of silicone-coated release liners.

The company is expected to invest around $175 million (Euro 159.2 million) to build the plant.

Building on years of experience, the development journey towards a sustainable paper bottle first began in 2015 by innovation expert EcoXpac in collaboration with Carlsberg Group and BillerudKorsnäs, with support from project partners.

Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble faces pressure from environmentalists to clean up its act.

Through an advanced three-dimensional image analysis of the forest company's wood deliveries, Holmen will be able to increase the efficiency of transport and boost the added value of the wood.

Andritz presents its new "MasterDry™" dryer fabric portfolio based on premium-performance dryer fabric technology.

Ilim Group, Russia's largest pulp and paper producer with an annual production volume of more than three million tons, will significantly expand its production capacity in a project now underway.

Company blames decline in cedar supply and weak markets for byproducts.

The cause of a conveyor belt fire at the WestRock Paper Mill in West Point is under investigation.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is investigating a broken pipe at Finch Paper that leaked about 2 million gallons of paper waste into the Hudson River late last month.

LSC Communications announced that the company was honored with six awards in the 2019 'Golden Cylinder' Awards, an annual competition designed to identify the "Best of Gravure" in each segment of the printing industry and to distinguish technical innovations.

DS Smith announced that it is expanding its coffee cup recycling programme to Europe through its De Hoop Mill in the Netherlands.

Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. will increase prices of its high-alpha and high-viscosity Cellulose Specialties products (including acetate, ethers, micro-crystalline cellulose, nitrocellulose and other grades) by 6%, effective immediately, or as contracts allow.