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Richmond, Virginia-based MeadWestvaco Corp. and Georgia-based Rock-Tenn Co. officially closed their merger Wednesday morning, creating WestRock Co.

Whether it is a mill, a supplier or some other entity where a group of people gather to achieve objectives, culture matters. Getting it right is critical and difficult while getting it wrong is easy and disastrous. Fixing a broken culture is extremely difficult and sometimes nearly impossible. How do you know if you have a broken culture?

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Our readers let us know when they think drones will be in their mills.

Atlas Holdings LLC announced today (2 July 2015) that the assets of its portfolio company Forest Resources, a leading North American manufacturer of industrial paper and packaging products, have been sold to PaperWorks Industries, Inc. and New-Indy Containerboard, LLC in two separate transactions.

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The Bucksport paper mill is inching closer to demolition.

A law firm has filed a $5 million class action lawsuit against Glatfelter Inc. over claims from plaintiffs that emissions from the Chillicothe paper mill have damaged property and created a nuisance.

Catalyst Paper Corporation announced that due to operating issues that have been fully resolved, the Crofton, British Columbia, mill has incurred production losses of approximately 8,600 tonnes of pulp and 8,600 tonnes of paper in the month of June.

Both properties are located near existing Rayonier landholdings.

I was taught long ago that one should build quality into a product, not inspect it in after it has been made. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? This is why I have always been troubled by the location of gauging systems on paper machines. Look at where they are: at the end of the machine, after the product is made. In the future, we may still have the old stationary gauges in their traditional locations, but I see something totally different right around the corner, perhaps as soon as in five years. What will it be?

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During our careers many of us had the desire to advance into the management ranks, leading us to search for tools which could strengthen our ability to accomplish things through or by others. But having completed, not only graduate study courses in industrial management and participating in other individual programs intended to develop successful managers, I question the effectiveness of many of the techniques.

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The contemplated transaction is estimated to be completed at the end of October 2015 at the latest.

WestRock Company aspires to be the premier partner and unrivaled provider of paper and packaging solutions in consumer and corrugated markets.

A dryer fire is to blame for a fire at the Georgia-Pacific facility in Warm Springs, Georgia early Tuesday morning.

The closure has an impact on 187 positions at the mill.

OSHA representatives arrived at International Paper mill in Augusta early Tuesday to investigate the death of a worker.

A hog fuel fire at Clearwater Paper was contained quickly Friday afternoon, 20 June 2015.

The mill employs 350 people, who will receive compensation and other support, the company said.

It is clear to those who understand the facts that the environmental performance of today's forest products industry is good, except for a small number of pulp mills and forestry operations. However, the industry's image in the minds of many environmental activists and much of the general public remains negative--and improving the industry's image so that the brightest youngsters want to work in it, and so that developers of new mills do not have to face massive and unreasonable public opposition, remains a challenge.

Everything goes on in your mill, from the honest and upright to the scandalous and felonious. It all happens, and if you don't think it does, I have a shiny bridge over the East River in New York I would like to sell you...

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