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Three people were injured and taken to the hospital after an accident at International Paper's Riegelwood mill Wednesday morning.

Smurfit Kappa announced this week that it has agreed a deal to sell its solidboard and graphicboard operations in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK to the Aurelius Group.

Metsä Fibre says it has made the decision to build a bioproduct mill in Äänekoski, Finland in the area of the existing pulp mill.

No one was injured when a fire erupted inside a debarking machine at Glatfelter paper company on Monday.

Orchids Paper Products Company plans to build an integrated manufacturing site in Barnwell, South Carolina. The project will include a tissue paper machine with paper making capacity between 35,000 and 40,000 tons per year and two converting lines with converting capacity between 30,000 and 32,000 tons per year, which are capable of producing value through ultra-premium grades of tissue products.

The Georgia-Pacific plant in Big Island is undergoing about $50 million in improvements with its biggest expense being an upgrade to its pulp mill.

For the second time in seven months, a massive fire broke out at the Norampac/Greenpac mill.

No cause has been determined yet for the paper machine fire that broke out at the Catalyst paper mill late in the evening on Thursday, 16 April 2015, in Port Alberni.

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Sonoco is building a $12 million research and development showcase at its headquarters and investing an additional $40 million in facilities in Franklin, Ohio, Waco, Texas, and Malaysia that would increase its production capabilities, the company announced Wednesday.

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Firefighters arrived at a blaze reported Wednesday morning at the Expera Old Town mill to find the flames were extinguished by employees, company spokeswoman Addie Teeters said in an email.

Pratt Industries broke ground this week on its new $52 million corrugated box factory in Beloit, Wisconsin. The 350,000 sq. ft. facility, due for start-up in early 2016, will sit on a 56-acre site and produce 600 tons of recycled boxes a day at capacity. It will also eventually provide 140 full-time jobs - as well as approximately 200 during construction.

Inspirepac is a private company with 279 employees, and operates two packaging plants and a further two erecting plants in the North of England.

Company chairman and owner Anthony Pratt said the acquisition would also help integrate his American and Australian holdings.

RockTenn announced this week that its Nicholasville, Kentucky, folding carton team set two world records. The team earned the first record by printing more than 9 million sheets in one month, and the second by printing more than 357,000 sheets in one day.

Construction of the mill and associated infrastructure is progressing, and the production of tissue paper is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2015.

A US paper-manufacturing giant is reportedly weighing a £6bn-plus takeover bid for Ireland's Smurfit Kappa as a wave of global deals fueled by cheap debt continues to gather pace.