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American Forest & Paper Association President and CEO Donna Harman issued a statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers announcement of a new proposed Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule.

PT Purinusa Ekapersada, an Asia Pulp & Paper company, and Oji Holdings Corporation have agreed to enter into a $35 million joint venture to set up a new converting factory in Indonesia.

It was announced on Tuesday that the mill's new name will be Phoenix Paper. Signs with the new name have been put up around the mill.

Gov. Scott Walker says he's going to do everything in his power to save a Kimberly-Clark facility in the Fox Valley and about 300 jobs after a tax incentive bill failed in the Legislature.

"An employee, identified as Carl Kuhle, age 60 from Bogata, was struck by a vehicle at the loading dock area," said Officer Curtis Garrett. "OSHA will be investigating the incident."

Metsä Tissue names Jani Sillanpää an interim Senior Vice President, Business Unit Away From Home. He will be part of the Metsä Tissue's management team and will report to Metsä Tissue's CEO Esa Kaikkonen.

Kadant Johnson LLC, a subsidiary of Kadant Inc., completed the acquisition of certain assets of Ohio-based Steam Systems, Inc., a provider of installation, repair, and technical services to the U.S. paper industry.

A Chicago federal appeals panel has upheld a lower court ruling that boarded up a class action antitrust suit against two containerboard companies, which alleged they conspired to fix prices. Judges again found the companies were not colluding, but rather making parallel moves in reaction to the market.

Fortress Global Enterprises Inc. has entered, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Fortress Advanced Bioproducts Inc. ("Fortress AB"), into a Technology License and Collaboration Agreement with Mondelēz International, Inc., one of the world's largest snacking companies.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a lower court ruling that allows a customer to sue the manufacture of flushable wipes over false advertising.

Arauco North America, headquartered in Atlanta, has joined the American Wood Council (AWC).

ANDRITZ has successfully started up the PrimeLineCOMPACT VI tissue production line - including stock preparation and automation system - delivered to Bashundhara Paper Mills Limited in Bangladesh.

Mercer International Inc. announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd. ("DMI").

Metsä Fibre and EcoEnergy SF have signed an agreement concerning the ownership of the biogas plant located in Metsä Group's mill area in Äänekoski, Finland.

UPM plans to invest EUR 2 billion in a new mill to be located near the city of Paso de los Toros in central Uruguay. The new mill would have capacity to produce about 2 million tonnes of eucalyptus pulp annually.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö has for the past years cooperated to develop a recyclable textile material made from locally sourced wood fiber.

UPM increases the IFRS fair value of its forest assets in Finland, mainly due to higher forest growth estimates.

With various analogies over the years, I have talked about our myopic look at energy issues. Your view of energy production, consumption and other KPIs related to energy are largely dependent on where you sit and what you read. Often, we find this is wrong, when the real numbers are placed in front of us. So, we are going to travel a little outside our normal realm of pulp and paper this week, hopefully giving you material not only to think about but to challenge you, the next time you think you know something, to dig a bit deeper...

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The Spanish company Papel Aralar S.A. has selected Valmet as the supplier for a new nonwovens rewinder to be installed in the existing PM 4 line at their plant in Amézqueta, Guipúzcoa, Spain.

The Norske Skog group has decided to invest about A$ 7 million ($5 million) to upgrade the Nature's Flame wood pellets facility in New Zealand to more than double its annual production capacity to 85,000 tonnes.

Christmas has not arrived yet, but SCA has already started recruiting temporary workers for next summer. 80 new employees will be recruited for Piteå.

LSC Communications announced a multi-year agreement with Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health.

Earlier this year, Georgia‐Pacific announced the construction of a new $135 million softwood lumber production facility in Warrenton, Georgia.

Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has begun using four AHEAD-2.0L PRODERGY tissue machines at its OKI mill, in South Sumatra, Indonesia, as part of a series of AHEAD-2.0L PRODERGY tissue machines.

Smurfit Kappa Group has significantly strengthened its presence in Western France with the acquisition of two Europac sites in Brittany.