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Sonoco, a global packaging company that has been in Waco for 10 years, said it will invest $13.5 million on new equipment for area operations and will add about 15 jobs.

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Damage to the building was estimated at US $200,000.

Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. said on Friday it will be making a US $25 million investment to better align assets to current market conditions, improve operating efficiency and increase commodity throughput.

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The ruling by the U.S. Department of Commerce sets the Irving subsidy rate at 11.19 percent, lower than the Port Hawkesbury Paper rate, which it sets at 20.33 percent.

Owners face $210,000 in penalties from OSHA...

Stora Enso has signed an agreement to divest its Barcelona mill, which produces recycled-fiber based consumer board, to the private equity fund Quantum.

A worker was killed Tuesday afternoon and another was seriously hurt when the driver of a pickup truck lost control of his vehicle and hit the two men outside the Georgia-Pacific mill on Green Bay's west side, Green Bay police said Friday.

The mill's owners, Paper Excellence, blamed the extreme drought, noting that water from a nearby lake that feeds the mill's operations is dwindling. It also said declining prices and a shrinking newsprint market have been bad for business.

We often talk about corruption in mills as a thing of the past. I can assure you it is a matter in the present. We have recent correspondence with readers who have told us very interesting stories of things they say are going on right now as you read this. All of this leaves us in a dilemma, for if we tell the stories we know as straight up reporting, we could be sued, called into court and so forth. How to get around this is a problem. Fortunately, I started a book on this subject a while back...

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The Roman Statesman Cicero is credited with the expression "as you have sown so shall you reap," and there are biblical variants in the Old and New Testaments. The expression has a powerful literal and figurative relevance to the Australian forestry industry...

I have been thinking about the difficulties of communicating and the problem of matching relationships to expectations. In this world of mass communication, at least on a personal level, communications in an organization seems more difficult than ever...

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Some of the areas affecting safety are traditionally not discussed at length in most paper mill safety training programs. These include behavioral safety, work attitude, and awareness. In spite of the many excellent mill safety programs existing today, accidents still happen. Often, so much time is spent on complex safety matters that the more basic contributors are either completely ignored or fall through the cracks during training sessions.

A letter from Tom Gallagher, President of Sales, Port Hawkesbury Paper...

KapStone union workers rejected the company's latest contract offer, union officials announced Wednesday night.

This rigid packaging business, which includes two facilities in Brazil, recorded annual net sales of approximately US$75 million in 2014.

Wasilenkoff is stepping down as president and chief executive.

FiberMark sells globally from six production facilities in the United States and one in the United Kingdom.