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A fleet of fire engines rushed to a Mold Business Park on Tuesday following reports of a blaze inside a Smurfit Kappa facility.

European Commission regulators have raided publisher Euromoney's newly-acquired specialist unit covering the paper industry as part of an investigation into the kraft paper and industrial paper sack sector. Euromoney confirmed the "inspection" by antitrust authorities at the Brussels office of RISI...

Valmet will supply an OptiConcept M board production line with automation for Pratt Paper, LLC for Pratt's new greenfield paper mill in Wapakoneta, Ohio.

Nippon Paper Industries announces that its consolidated subsidiary, Kitakami Paper, has decided at the meeting of the Board of Directors held that it will withdraw from all of its businesses on July 31, 2018.

"We are stunned that a single U.S. mill in Longview, Washington, has been able to manipulate the trade laws to their gain, while potentially wreaking financial havoc on newspapers and other commercial publishers across the country," said the News Media Alliance, which represents more than 2,000 U.S. news organizations, in a statement Wednesday.

UPM Raflatac has opened a new labelstock slitting and distribution terminal in Santiago, Chile.

A bylaw banning plastic bags has been adopted in Victoria, the first local government to do so in British Columbia.

McDonald's will stop using plastic foam cups, which keep drinks icy cold but make environmentalists red hot, by the end of this year.

Leaders in the newspaper industry have pledged to fight new tariffs on the paper that they use to print their publications.

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. has obtained the highest rating in the DBJ Environmental Rating from the Development Bank of Japan Inc., and has received a loan based on the relevant program.

The Chilean folding boxboard maker Cartulinas CMPC S.A has bought two PulpEye online analyser systems to its mill in Maule. One system will be installed in the BTMP pulp mill and the other in the board mill's stock preparation.

VPK Packaging Group plans to invest in a new paper machine for light weight recycled containerboard to strengthen its sustainable resource management.

Expera Specialty Solutions has introduced a new product brand, Resin-Gard™, that represents its advanced line of saturating papers engineered to achieve uniform saturant (resin or latex) pickup required by manufacturers to meet finished product performance requirements.

UPM Biofuels has received a sustainability certificate for the cultivation of the Brassica carinata crop - a new feedstock for biofuel production - in Uruguay.

UPM has been recognized as a Water Efficiency Frontrunner in Jiangsu Province and China at large.

Sun Chemical has launched a new UV offset ink that was developed to make sophisticated graphics look stunning and vibrant on high-end luxury folding cartons while at the same time providing the longer-term shelf appeal brand owners require.

Graphic Packaging International, LLC has announced the appointment of Spencer Maurer to Senior Vice President, Americas Foodservice, the business unit created from the combination with International Paper's Consumer Packaging business.

Smurfit Kappa's innovative ShelfSmart service helped Agua de Benassal, a premium bottled water company in Spain, increase sales by 10%.

Resolute Forest Products Inc. expressed praise for yesterday's filing by the Government of Canada at the World Trade Organization (WTO).

An Irving Paper employee was treated in hospital after butane gas was detected at the mill on Wednesday, the company has confirmed.

The American government's imposition of duties on exports of Canadian newsprint will only accelerate the transition from print to digital and threaten thousands of U.S. jobs, says North America's largest newsprint producer.

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) announced its top 2018 advocacy priorities that include free and fair trade, transportation efficiencies, regulatory process reforms and government policies that respect market dynamics for paper-based products.

As part of its strategy to expand into the tissue segment, Suzano Papel e Celulose, the world's second-largest eucalyptus pulp producer, commissioned Voith Paper, a global technology leader in innovation for the paper industry, to supply complete production lines for the manufacture of sanitary (tissue) paper.

Graphic Packaging International, LLC announced the appointment of Mike Farrell to Senior Vice President, Supply Chain.