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Expera Specialty Solutions has achieved BRC Global Standard - Packaging and Packaging Materials Issue 5 High Hygiene Certification at all four Wisconsin paper mills.

Domtar Corporation announced a donation of $10,000 to the Canadian Red Cross to help provide relief for British Columbia wildfires. The effects of hundreds of active wildfires across the province have left many people in need of assistance.

Sonoco announced it has completed the acquisition of the remaining 70-percent interest in the joint venture of Conitex Sonoco, a vertically integrated global leader in the manufacture of paper-based cones and tubes used in the textile industry.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company announced that its subsidiary, Graphic Packaging International, LLC, has completed the previously announced acquisition of substantially all the assets of the foodservice business of Letica Corporation, a subsidiary of RPC Group PLC.

The Wisconsin State Senate did not meet for a vote Sunday to approve nearly $100 million worth of tax incentives to the Kimberly-Clark Corporation.

As market demand for high-performance filtration material continue to increase globally, Ahlstrom-Munksjö continues to grow its attractive Filtration business and strengthens its manufacturing platform globally by completing a major investment in its plant in Madisonville, Kentucky.

American Forest & Paper Association President and CEO Donna Harman issued a statement regarding a trilateral trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada.

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The program is expected to generate annual cost savings of approximately SEK 800m, with full effect at the end of 2019.

Two men were arrested as part of the investigation and more arrests are possible; defendants also allegedly defrauded Graphic Packaging International so they'd get a larger payment from the mill.

Smurfit Kappa said Thursday it has begun operating a "state-of-the-art" combined heat and power plant at Townsend Hook Paper Mill in Kent, south east England.

American Forest & Paper Association President and CEO Donna Harman commended the House for passing the Guidance Out of Darkness (Good) Act (H.R. 4809) and urged the Senate to quickly pass the companion measure (S. 2296) to provide more transparency and accountability in the regulatory process.

You will see it all the time, both corporately and individually. People, and people representing corporations, will demand very high quality from others but will tolerate themselves or their organizations delivering low quality goods and services. This is hypocrisy, yet it is not as bad as things can get. Those who accept low quality goods and services are nearly a lost cause when one tries to deliver high quality goods and services. They just don't get it.

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Weyerhaeuser, one of the world's largest private owners of timberlands, announced the company is donating $250,000 to several organizations providing relief efforts in North Carolina after Hurricane Florence.

The Skowhegan paper mill is diversifying its capacity and expanding into paper-based packaging, officials said.

WestRock Company has provided an estimate of the impact of Hurricane Florence on its business and fiscal fourth quarter financial results.

Clearwater Paper Corporation announced a key divisional executive appointment. Effective October 1, 2018, Steve Bowden is named senior vice president and general manager of the pulp and paperboard division.

Reforestation company transitions to new branding with new logo.

A worker is suing International Paper Co., a packaging company, after allegedly slipping and falling on icy steps while delivering large rolls of paper.

USG Corporation announced that at the Company's special meeting of stockholders, USG stockholders voted to adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger with Gebr. Knauf KG, dated as of June 10, 2018.

WestRock Co., the largest employer in the Alleghany Highlands, will invest $248 million in its manufacturing operations in Covington and Alleghany County.

McKinley Paper Co. officials have said the company will begin production at its Port Angeles mill by September 2019, ending a curtailment that began in April 2017.