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The Legislature voted Friday to back a $13.4 million taxpayer bailout of at least two of the state's six ailing biomass energy plants that support hundreds of logging jobs.

A former senior account representative for RR Donnelley is suing the company for allegations of age discrimination.

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Oji Paper Co., Bridgestone Corp. and Suntory Holdings Ltd. stopped operations at their plants in Kumamoto Prefecture.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a unilateral order to Georgia-Pacific, Weyerhaeuser and International Paper which requires the removal of PCB-contaminated sediment and soil from a 1.5-mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River upstream of the Otsego Township Dam, Otsego, Mich.

Weyerhaeuser Company plans to commit up to 3 million acres of private timberland in Washington and Oregon to support a variety of conservation efforts focused on reintroducing the North American Fisher throughout the West.

Quad/Graphics announced it has expanded its executive leadership team to support its ongoing transformation as an innovator of new, complementary products and marketing services that help clients increase engagement, response and revenue across channels while reducing their total cost of production and distribution.

Canfor Corporation says it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Wynndel Box & Lumber Ltd. located in the Creston Valley, British Columbia.

Metsä Board announced that it has inaugurated a new folding boxboard machine at Husum mill in Sweden.

Smurfit Kappa has been ordered to pay €17,000 to a staff member it unfairly dismissed arising from alleged unauthorized absences connected to the man serving on a jury panel for a high-profile criminal trial.

A dust explosion happened around midnight Thursday at International Paper's facility in Richland.

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A more detailed complaint is what plaintiffs in a $5 million class action lawsuit against P.H. Glatfelter Co. hope will push the case forward after their original suit was dismissed early this year.

UPM announced this week the official inauguration of the Paper Machine 3 in Changshu, China.

Södra announced this week that the final leg of the expansion Värö project is approaching and on 7 May, all production at Södra Cell Värö will cease, followed by five intensive weeks of dismantling the old machinery, and installing new and larger machinery.

Klabin announced that the annual maintenance shutdown of the Monte Alegre Unit in Telêmaco Borba, Brazil, will be from May 10 to 20.

About 214 people who will lose their jobs in May with the closure of the Madison Paper mill have been cleared to receive federal aid to help them adapt to new jobs or careers.

Neenah Paper will pay $33,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the commission announced this month.

Asked whether the Catalyst Paper mill in Rumford, Maine is one of the companies, the governor said no, "at least not for the time being

Jay mill owner Verso Corp. has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to step in and decide whether the town of Jay should hand back as much as $11.4 million in taxes assessed during the past three years.

Fire investigators are trying to determine what sparked a blaze at an International Paper facility Tuesday afternoon near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

RenFuel and Nordic Paper have signed an agreement to build a production test facility in Bäckhammar, Sweden, in order to test manufacture an advanced biofuel based on lignin. The project has been granted US $8.7 million by the Swedish Energy Agency.