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Companies combine operations to form leading paper and packaging company in Mexico.

SCA announced that its divestment of its business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea for integration with Vinda International Holdings Limited is expected to close as of today, April 1.

Achieving a 50% reduction in fresh water consumption per ton of finished product by 2030 is an ambitious goal of Agenda 2020. The organization has released its 2016 research roadmap outlining priority research initiatives to achieve significant efficiencies in the use and re-use of water in pulp and paper mills en route to that goal.

It is Safety Month at Paperitalo Publications. Let's start off by understanding two things: (1) serious, sometimes fatal accidents occur in our mills today, this is not something that happens in the past or somewhere else and (2) what we tell our fellow employees, through words, deeds and actions is extremely important to conducting operations in a safe manner.

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Södra announced that it has acquired the remaining shares in Crown Timber Group Plc. Södra previously held approximately 20% of the shares in Crown Timber.

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A birthday or anniversary calls for cake, even if the honoree is a 115-year-old facility.

Smurfit Kappa's North American unit has bought two small packaging companies in California for an undisclosed sum.

A KapStone facility is missing 40-feet of wall after it was destroyed in a boiler plant explosion.

Union workers at an Iowa WestRock corrugated packaging company have been on strike for nearly a month now.

Both weapons were run through police computer systems and placed into evidence.

A fire in a conveyor belt system at the Wisconsin Rapids Verso Paper mill did significant damage to the plant over the weekend, according to a fire department captain.

Graphic Packaging International, Inc. has agreed to acquire the converting assets of Wayne, New Jersey based Metro Packaging & Imaging, Inc., a printed folding carton producer primarily servicing the food and away-from-home end markets through strong sheet-fed and web press capabilities.

After the closing, Grupo Gondi will have 13 plants including three WestRock corrugated packaging facilities in Mexico.

International Paper's Maysville mill recently achieved a significant safety milestone by surpassing an entire year without an Occupational Safety and Health Administration recordable safety incident, company officials said.

After coming to a halt earlier this month, demolition work at the former Verso Paper mill has yet to resume, according to a town official.

Domtar Corp. was not overtaxed after its Port Edwards paper mill shut down in 2008, a state appeals court ruled this week, marking another loss for the company as it challenges more than $1 million in property taxes.

A worker at the Harmac Pacific pulp mill near Nanaimo has died after the wood chip pile he was standing on collapsed.

The group of asset liquidators who bought equipment at the shuttered Lincoln Paper and Tissue mill have acquired the bankrupt company's trademarks, patents and other intellectual property for $75,000.

International Paper Co. has granted $1 million for disaster relief caused by flooding in Louisiana and Texas.

Irish international packaging giant Smurfit Kappa has confirmed its plan to move its primary stock market listing to London.

The company has described Richmond as its "principal executive office" and Norcross as its "principal operating office" in reports to shareholders.

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company has announced the appointments of the Board leadership and Chief Executive Officers of LSC Communications, Inc., Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc. and R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company to be effective as of the consummation of the previously announced spinoff transactions which the company expects to complete in October 2016.