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RR Donnelley has decided on the new names for the separate businesses that will be created when the group completes its three-way split later this year.

For years Hollywood has been telling us that we will someday be able to commute and make long distance trips, a la George Jetson, with our feet propped up on our dashboards and without a care in the world. It seems like science fiction but several large manufacturers and tech firms are working hard to make it a reality. How could this affect the paper industry and other companies that rely on trucks to deliver their products around the country? The answer may surprise you.

Los Angeles-based Industrial Realty Group paid $70.5 million Tuesday for the Federal Way campus of Weyerhaeuser and says it plans to sell off large pieces for redevelopment.

The agency ruled that China, Brazil, Indonesia, Australia and Portugal have violated U.S. trade laws and "materially injured" U.S. paper manufacturers by dumping uncoated paper into the United States "at less than fair market value."

Smurfit Kappa has announced that Ken Bowles will succeed Ian Curley as the group's chief financial officer.

The president and CEO of Madison Paper Industries said Tuesday he can't confirm the details of a potential months-long curtailment at the paper mill, saying only that while production at the mill is down, the situation is changing on a weekly basis and layoffs have been avoided.

The investment will double the production capacity for its polyacrylamide powders used in a wide variety of water-based industries including the pulp, paper, oil and gas, chemical processing, mining, biorefining, power and municipal markets.

Lecta announced that it has implemented a new organizational structure with the creation of three business units.

U.S. trade officials have agreed to give an expedited review to duties imposed on Canadian paper imports at the request of UPM Madison and Verso Paper, which is going through a bankruptcy restructuring.

An early morning Monday fire at a Wisconsin Cascades Tissue Group facility was quickly controlled by firefighters.

Two Sides North America has released a new study outlining key facts on why paperless initiatives do not save trees.

As more researchers and doctors recommend the benefits of handwriting for both children and senior citizens, Domtar Corporation announced it has unveiled a new program called PaperPal.

McGraw Hill Financial Inc. is preparing to change its name to S&P Global Inc. this year, a symbolic move that underscores the firm's shift away from its publishing roots.

Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is rebranding itself as an environmental champion by announcing its successful efforts in forest conservation and peatland restoration.

KapStone has won a key legal victory in its ongoing dispute with the pulp and paper union, and it will not be forced to return to the bargaining table, at least for now.

Miami University Paper Science and Engineering Foundation Executive Director Jon Kerr, a longtime pulp and paper industry veteran, will be retiring, the foundation announced Friday afternoon.

The Forest Stewardship Council said that its international board will decide in March whether to recommend that its 800 members vote to remove the Quebec-based company, the second-largest holder of FSC certifications in North America.

An employee at Clearwater Paper's Lewiston facility was taken to the hospital Wednesday afternoon after suffering chemical burns.

When the Allies invaded France in June of 1944, they knew they would have to conquer transportation problems if they were to be successful in reaching their objective. Starting on 24 August 1944 and running until 16 November 1944, the Red Ball Express operated 5,958 vehicles and moved 12,500 tons of freight each and every day from the coast of France to the front lines.

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Both companies are located in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area.

The changes will be implemented gradually throughout 2016.

A Chinese company that expressed interest in November in building a $1.36 billion pulp mill in south Arkansas is also considering other states for the mill.

Metsä Board says it has started up a new folding boxboard production line at its Husum mill in Sweden.