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Valmet has taken a new, important step in building a leading Industrial Internet ecosystem by signing a partnership agreement with Kemira.

Fortress Paper Ltd. announced that the Fortress Specialty Cellulose Mill (the "FSC Mill") restarted.

Ontex Group NV will further expand its personal hygiene business through a new production plant to be built in Radomsko, Poland.

A team of supercomputer programmers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is working with Procter & Gamble to help the company design better paper products.

Verso Corporation announced that Robert M. Amen, chairman of the company's board of directors, has decided not to stand for reelection at the company's 2018 annual meeting of stockholders and, in connection with his decision, has resigned as chairman of the board effective October 6, 2017.

Norpac has scored two early wins in its fight against what it calls unfair competition from Canadian papermakers.

Valmet will supply a vast grade conversion rebuild with a wide scope of automation for Sappi Lanaken Mill in Belgium.

The state Department of Ecology has seen a significant increase in complaints about odor from the Port Townsend Paper Co. mill.

Miami University's Paper Science and Engineering Foundation is pleased to announce that it has named Dr. Gary Rudemiller as its next Executive Director beginning on October 16, 2017.

As Norpac prepares to slash production capacity by nearly a third, the company confirmed that there could be fewer layoffs at the mill than originally expected.

A fire broke out at a Graphic Packaging facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan late last week.

For the second time this week, the board of Norske Skog has extended the deadline for agreeing a consensual restructuring of the pulp and paper producer but this time the subsidiary holding its major assets has not backed the move.

Unilux, a designer and manufacturer of stroboscopic inspection systems, announced new controls for their popular LED2000 Series Inspection systems.

Valmet will supply a Valmet Brown Stock Quality Analyzer (Valmet Kappa Q1) for CMPC Celulosa in Santa Fe, Chile for its fiber line 1 producing ECF (Elemental Chlorine Free) bleached eucalyptus pulp.

Ron Van Den Heuvel, a De Pere, Wisconsin businessman accused of defrauding a bank, has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.

Industrial Assets Corp., a used machine dealer and liquidator based in Los Angeles, will be the new owner of the Appleton Coated paper mill as of Friday.

Wait a minute--you did not know your quality was broken? Your product or service quality is always broken. It is always broken because quality is a moving target. What may have been the best quality among your peers last month may send you to the bottom of the heap this month.

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Södra's port in Mönsterås will become completely free from fossil fuels in October.

Brazilian pension fund Funcef decided to exercise tag-along rights and sell its 8.53 percent stake in wood pulpmaker Eldorado Brasil Celulose SA to Netherlands-based Paper Excellence BV, according to a statement on Wednesday.

Firefighters were called to Resolute Forest Products' site in Thunder Bay, Ont., Wednesday morning to battle a reported structural fire.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company has announced that one of its wholly owned subsidiaries has acquired Norgraft Packaging, S.A.

Phoenix Color Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of ALJ Regional Holdings, Inc., announced today the closing of the acquisition of the assets of Moore-Langen Printing Company, Inc. in Terre Haute, Indiana from LSC Communications, Inc.

Buckman has acquired CiDRA Chemical Management Inc. (CCMI). Buckman took ownership of CCMI's outstanding stock, a wholly owned subsidiary of Connecticut-based technology innovation leader CiDRA Holdings Inc.