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Amcor became the first global packaging company pledging to develop all its packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2025, directly addressing a major environmental issue with capability, scale and reach.

Stora Enso has become the first forest products company to set ambitious science-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets to address significant emissions along the company's value chain. The targets have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative.

Metso's Board of Directors have appointed CFO Eeva Sipilä as Metso's interim President and CEO as of February 3, 2018.

Sonoco has been selected for Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies in the packaging sector, and named first in its industry.

Andritz has received an order from Zellstoff Pöls AG, Austria, to supply a large paper machine for the production of bleached kraft paper grades.

Following the successful Voith rebuild of PM 1 in 2016, Smurfit Kappa Roermond Papier, Netherlands has selected Voith again, this time to supply and install a new forming section and headbox for PM 1.

Virginia officials are preparing to take legal action to recover the remainder of a $5 million grant given to a Chinese company that planned to build a paper mill near Richmond.

Sappi is investing in its mill in Gratkorn.

FPInnovations and Resolute Forest Products announced a significant investment in the implementation of a TMP-Bio pilot project in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Clariant completed the project to expand its industrial facility in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, and increased production capacity by around 15%.

Stora Enso has signed a global framework agreement with IndustriALL Global Union, UNI Global Union and the Building and Wood Workers' International at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva.

Andritz has received an order from Stora Enso to increase the capacity of the evaporation plant of their Enocell mill in Finland.

UPM Biofuels and the Zero Emission Resource Organisation have started cooperation in promoting green shift in the transport and petrochemicals sectors. The work focuses on creating a predictable long term operating environment for sustainable, advanced biofuels to enable climate change mitigation in transport with renewable fuels.

At No. 42 on the Newsweek Green Ranking 2017 U.S. 500 list, which was produced in partnership with Corporate Knights, Domtar is rated first among U.S.-based pulp and paper producers.

WestRock Company announced that it has been named to FORTUNE magazine's annual list of World's Most Admired Companies for the third consecutive year.

International Paper announced that it has been named again by FORTUNE magazine as one of the "Worlds Most Admired Companies."

An equipment malfunction Friday morning at Glatfelter paper company in Spring Grove created an odor that led to dozens of reports of gas leaks throughout York County.

Hamburger Turkey Ltd., part of Hamburger Containerboard, has purchased a new paper machine from Valmet for its paper mill project in Kütahya, Turkey.

Yesterday Iceland announced plans to eliminate all plastic packaging in their own brands by 2023. In its place, they will create packaging made of paper and pulp trays and paper bags that are fully recyclable through domestic waste collection or in-store recycling facilities. They will begin by launching new food ranges in the coming months that have paper instead of plastic trays.

Smurfit Kappa has opened a new recycling plant in Malaga, Spain, which will strengthen its recovered paper service in the region.

A fire at Tolko Mills on Two Mile Flat had Quesnel Volunteer Firefighters out in force at 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 17.

LSC Communications, a Chicago-based spinoff of Fortune 500 company R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., is closing its plant in Long Prairie, Minn., resulting in the layoff of 236 workers there, according to a notice filed with the state of Minnesota.

Port Hawkesbury Paper has been shut down for nearly two weeks over the past month.

Verso is asking the city to submit an application for a $1 million forgivable state loan to help upgrade the recycling capacity of the mill. The project would likely require a total investment of $21 million.

When considering capital projects, especially those of larger sizes, I have always been bemused by the owner's team approach to negotiations with goods and services providers...

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