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A Jay, Maine man, one of three former employees accused of taking items from Verso paper mill in Jay, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Franklin County Superior Court.

Sun Chemical has named Veritiv as a distribution partner of its Streamline solvent inkjet inks for wide format and super wide format printers.

UPM Raflatac, one of the world's leading suppliers of self-adhesive label materials, has completed its acquisition of the assets of Irving, Texas-based Southwest Label Stock.

Cascades Inc. announced that it will close its packaging plant in Maspeth, New York, as part of the Corporation's modernization and optimization efforts in the Northeastern United States.

The state's water regulator for Central and North Florida renewed permits Tuesday for two of Florida's biggest industrial consumers of aquifer water.

Sinar Mas Group's Asia Pulp and Paper collaborated with the Japan Agency for Environmental Business, or JAEB, and the International Tropical Timber Organization to conserve the Kerumutan forest in Pelalawan, Riau Islands, by planting Meranti trees there on Monday.

The government India said that employees of Nagaon and Cachar paper mills belonging to central PSU Hindustan Paper Corp have not been paid salaries for 8 months and 10 months, respectively.

Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. and Tembec Inc. announced that the Québec Superior Court issued a final order approving the previously announced statutory arrangement under Section 192 of the Canada Business Corporations Act (the "Transaction") involving the acquisition by Rayonier Advanced Materials of all of the outstanding shares of Tembec.

DuPont has agreed to pay nearly $400 million to settle environmental lawsuits ahead of its planned merger with the Dow Chemical Co.

Chilean pulpmaker Empresas Copec SA's bid to buy rival Eldorado Brasil Celulose SA, which collapsed early on Friday because of price disagreements, faces three competing offers, two people with direct knowledge of the situation said.

Resolute Forest Products Inc. is confident that U.S. import duties on softwood lumber won't impact its future earnings because the Canadian company expects to be reimbursed for the levies paid.

A fire quickly extinguished by the Port Townsend Paper Corp. fire brigade did minimal damage to the mill with no injuries.

Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co., the two largest U.S. chemical makers, have received all the regulatory approvals needed to close their historic merger.

For the past 30 years, WestRock has played its role in the City of Waxahachie industrial base. However, come September, the company will shutter operations.

Local firefighters responded to the Weyerhaeuser Longview, Washington mill early Thursday morning after a conveyor belt about 50 feet above the ground caught fire.

Nippon Paper Industries will shut down the coating machine No.1 operating at Akita Mill in Japan and the coating machine No.2 operating at Ishinomaki Mill, respectively, at the end of May 2018.

The U.S. lumber industry says it won't accept the latest Canadian government proposal for a deal on softwood lumber, downplaying expectations any agreement is imminent.

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Cascades Inc. announced an investment of $80 million USD for the construction of a new containerboard packaging plant in Piscataway, New Jersey, United States.

Georgia-Pacific says it's expanding its corrugated packaging business with the acquisition of Ohio-based PAX Corrugated Products. PAX operates a corrugated sheet plant with more than 100 employees in Lebanon, Ohio.

Expera is rolling out its refreshed line of Glass-Gard Prime™ and Glass-Gard™ papers, highlighting a diverse portfolio of specialty paper products that span a variety of end-use applications.

Mac Papers has completed the acquisition of Florida Graphic Supply, Inc. (FGSI), a Clearwater, Fla.-based distributor that specializes in the most advanced wide format technology available.

DS Smith announced that it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire 80 per cent. of the shares of Interstate Management Resources, Inc. (Interstate) from Indevco.