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The pending combination of the magazine industry's two largest printers should be blocked by the Department of Justice because it represents a merger into monopoly that will put power over long-run magazine printing in the hands of one company, according to a letter published last week by the nonprofit anti-monopoly organization Open Markets Institute and two venerable writer's groups.

The Maryland Port Administration has signed a six-month contract with Brazil-based forestry giant Suzano Pulp and Paper to ship the company's pulp through the port's state-owned terminals -- a deal that could yield as much as 120,000 tons of wood pulp, officials announced Thursday.

A lawsuit filed by Resolute Forest Products against Greenpeace remains unresolved, six years after it was launched.

Smurfit Kappa Group plc announced that it intends, subject to the approval of the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia, to launch a tender offer to acquire the minority shares in Cartón de Colombia S.A. for cash.

Nippon Paper Industries announces its decision to conduct installation work at Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company, LLC, its consolidated subsidiary that operates a liquid packaging board business in the United States, to improve the subsidiary's earnings capacity by expanding pulp production and sales, improving print performance of paper board and production efficiency.

Lecta has announced the temporary shutdown of line 8 production at its Condat mill, in the French town of Le Lardin Saint Lazare, from the end of April.

At Domtar, we value our employees and want them to enjoy their work. It's why we invest in measuring employee engagement and satisfaction and use employee feedback to improve how we do business.

Mario Plourde, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cascades, has announced a change in leadership for the company's Tissue Group: Jean-David Tardif will take over from Jean Jobin as President and Chief Operating Officer.

Stora Enso is investing Euro 5 million to build a new production line and related infrastructure to manufacture formed fiber products at Hylte Mill in Sweden.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö's North America Specialty Solutions Coated Products team announced an extension to their brand of release liners used in the manufacture of Advanced Composites.

Stora Enso has joined the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment to eliminate plastic waste and pollution at the source.

As I go around the industry, it seems like the last bastion of old-fashioned prejudice is the maintenance department. It's often the rough and tumble end of the mill and many times the workers in this area may have been overlooked in general training for the softer parts of doing their jobs. It has been a male dominated area forever. I have seen some racial prejudice in this area, but not near as much as I have male/female prejudice.

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Amcor says it expects its takeover of US rival Bemis to be completed in May.

Rengo announced that its consolidated subsidiary, Tri-Wall Limited has established a packaging design and sales subsidiary for heavy duty packaging materials, TW Mexico Packaging Solutions, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, through Tri-Wall's wholly-owned subsidiary.

The first wave of about 270 workers at Georgia-Pacific's paper mill north of Baton Rouge were laid off Tuesday, as the company begins a weekslong decommissioning process that will see more than 600 leaving their jobs.

A grassroots community drive aimed at heading off the demolition of the Fort Frances mill has won the support of more than 2,000 people.

Veritiv Corporation announced that its Canadian division, Veritiv Canada Inc., will be the exclusive Canadian distributor of coated sheets from Asia Pulp & Paper.

Metsä Wood has begun statutory labor negotiations at Suolahti and Punkaharju birch plywood mills in Finland.

Metsä Wood has begun statutory labor negotiations at Suolahti and Punkaharju birch plywood mills in Finland.

Graphic Packaging International (GPI) has been approved to join Amazon's Packaging Support and Supplier Network (APASS) focused on delivering packaging solutions that comply with Amazon's rigorous requirements to meet the demands of today's e-commerce packaging.

Thirty-three firefighters from area departments were on scene for several hours Saturday at a Quad Graphics plant in Effingham to combat a fire that was caused when an industrial paper shredder malfunctioned.

WestRock has acquired automated packaging machinery firm Linkx Packaging Systems for an undisclosed amount.

No one was injured in the fire, according to a mill employee. A cause for the fire has not been released.