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This past week, International Paper recognized the five-year anniversary of the repurposing of its Franklin mill.

A worker who died on the job at Kamloops' Domtar pulp mill has been identified.

A $7.5 million feasibility study will investigate a proposal to burn thousands of tonnes of household and industrial waste to create energy at the Australian Paper mill at Maryvale near Morwell in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.

Around 60 of the 140 employees on the Mondi packaging facility in Scunthorpe face redundancy as part of a plan by the company to downsize the business.

Fire investigators are working to determine the cause of a fire that broke out June 30 at the Packaging Corp of America facility.

Charles and David Koch are best known for their controversial political empire, where they ply their combined personal fortunes of nearly $96 billion into conservative causes and candidates across the nation. They're less known for the business empire that's enabled that wealth: Koch Industries.

Is the Cloquet Sappi mill the greenest in the world? While there hasn't been an official trophy awarded by pulp and paper mills worldwide, Cloquet Sappi manager Mike Schultz is quite certain we have a winner here.

Stora Enso says it has decided to invest Euro 45 million in a new production unit for cross laminated timber (CLT) in connection with its Gruvön mill in Sweden.

Sappi Limited says it will bolster its Packaging and Speciality Papers Business through the acquisition of the barrier film technology of Rockwell Solutions Limited.

Stora Enso Oyj has notified Kotkamills Oy that the leasing agreement concerning Tainionkoski PM7 will be terminated in accordance with its terms to expire at the end of 2018.

UPM has signed a contract to sell forest estates to Silvestica Green Forest Finland Oy. The contract covers 6,877 hectares of forestry land located in Kajaani, Sonkajärvi and Sotkamo in Finland

DS Smith announced that it has opened its fifth PackRight Centre in the Germany & Switzerland region in Kaarst, close to the Düsseldorf metropolitan area.

Stora Enso has signed an agreement to divest the business and assets of its Swedish subsidiary Stora Enso Re-board AB, a producer of rigid paperboard for expositions and displays, to Culas AB, which is partially owned by the current managing director of Stora Enso Re-board AB, John-Åke Svensson.

Sappi Limited is pleased to announce that it will bolster its Packaging and Speciality Papers Business through the acquisition of the barrier film technology of Rockwell Solutions Limited (Rockwell Solutions).

Smurfit Kappa has announced a multi-million euro investment in technology at its Nettingsdorf Paper Mill that will significantly reduce CO₂ emissions while increasing production.

Fire officials responded to a Georgia-Pacific Corporation facility in Lexington after a transformer caught fire on June 29.

Voith has successfully started up new XcelLine TM 10 tissue machine at Lee & Man's Jiangxi site in China.

WorkSafeBC is investigating a heavy-equipment accident on Thursday at Domtar's Kamloops pulp mill that left one employee dead and another in hospital.

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Kimberly-Clark Corporation has published its annual report on sustainability, providing the first update on the company's global progress toward its Sustainability 2022 goals.

Previously, Rubicon had approximately 33% ownership of ArborGen, with International Paper and WestRock owning the rest of the company; Rubicon bought out the other two partners for $29 million.

Catalyst Paper announced today the launch of Trident™, a wet strength label paper produced at its Rumford mill in Maine, USA.

Members from the United Steel Workers Union have voted to accept a new contract from Foley Cellulose. The contract agreement comes after a year-long dispute between the union and Georgia Pacific.