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One of the five men serving a life prison term for killing a co-worker at a Green Bay paper mill in 1992 has been paroled because of his declining mental health.

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation announced its commitment of $1 million to support Hurricane Harvey disaster relief efforts in Texas, as well as match employee contributions to hurricane relief.

Veritiv announced it has acquired Miami-based packaging distributor All American Containers.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Graphic Packaging International, Inc., will close its coated recycled paperboard mill in Santa Clara, California by year end.

KapStone Container has decided to cease operations at its Oakland facility. The Kapstone closure will eliminate 67 jobs, according to an official company filing with state labor agencies.

Part of the roof collapsed onto a baling machine at a Louisiana Graphic Packaging facility, starting a fire.

As reported in the media, during the night between September 5 and 6th, there was a fire in one of the buildings at BillerudKorsnäs' production unit in Karlsborg.

Södra will invest more than SEK 100 million in the production of biomethanol, a sustainable fuel from forest raw material.

Weyerhaeuser Company announced effective immediately that all its lands in Flathead, Lake, Lincoln, Missoula, Sanders and Ravalli counties in Western Montana are closed to public access due to the extreme forest fire danger.

Kemira has finalized its approximately EUR 50 million investment into a new sodium chlorate production line in Joutseno, Finland.

BillerudKorsnäs says it is investing in the area of cold chain packaging as it acquires a minority holding in the innovative company Vericool Inc., headquartered in California.

Dow Chemical Co and DuPont said the companies had successfully completed their planned $130 billion merger to form Dow DuPont.

Andritz says it will officially open the world's most modern research and development center for tissue, the PrimeLineTIAC Tissue Innovation and Application Center, at its Graz location in March 2018.

Gov. Paul LePage has asked President Donald Trump's administration to exempt eastern Canadian provinces from softwood lumber tariffs that he says will lead to layoffs and shut-down operations in Maine.

Another problem at Nippon Dyanwave's wastewater treatment plant has reportedly triggered paper machine shutdowns at the Longview mill and other nearby businesses.

Clayco, Inc. has announced the completion of the construction of a Georgia-Pacific warehouse-distribution facility in University Park, Illinois.

The chief executive officer of Verso Corp. told investors he expects the shuttered Wickliffe, Ky. paper mill to be sold by the end of September.

Brazilian holding company J&F Investimentos SA on Saturday accepted a proposal from Netherlands-based Paper Excellence to buy pulpmaker Eldorado Brasil Celulose SA for 15 billion reais ($4.7 billion), including debt.

Arctic Paper S.A. has announced the appointment of Göran Eklund as new CFO of Arctic Paper S.A. as at the 1st of September.

Weyerhaeuser Company announced the completion of the sale of its timberlands and manufacturing business in Uruguay to a consortium led by BTG Pactual's Timberland Investment Group (TIG) for $402.5 million in cash.

Sappi Limited announced that it will bolster its biorefining expertise through the acquisition of the Xylex® and Versalac® technologies owned by Plaxica Limited.

Paper maker The Southworth Company has laid off more than 120 employees after shutting down its facilities.

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