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Resolute Forest Products Inc. responded to the proposal put forth by FSC International to launch a mediation process between interested parties with the goal of identifying solutions to forest management issues in the Canadian boreal forest.

The fate of the University of Maine research center for wood-based products located on the former Expera pulp mill site is up in the air, according to a university official.

Model Group acquired industrial site in western Poland, including a production and storage facility with an area of around 20,500 m2.

Catalyst Paper, operating in Powell River, was reportedly fined $200,000 in British Columbia Provincial Court on 8 December 2015, after pleading guilty to offenses under the Fisheries Act related to the deposit of a deleterious substance into water frequented by fish.

The sessions to start early next year are expected to last one to three months. The primary focus will be on Resolute's suspended Lac St-Jean certificate and terminated Mistassini certificates.

A final decision by the boards of both companies on whether to proceed with the project is anticipated in mid-2016.

Resolute Forest Products Inc. has responded to "misleading media statements by third parties regarding the U.S. Department of Commerce's final order for countervailing duties on supercalendered paper from Canada."

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Here in the pulp and paper industry, we have a difficult problem explaining our energy needs to the public. The scale of our facilities, the energy needs, just do not compute for the individual who is not regularly exposed to the scale of the business. This works to our detriment when the population puts pressure on the politicians. What to do about this?

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The Paris Agreement of 12th December 2015 among 195 countries, on measures to control climate, was hailed by politicians, and most of the media, as the saviour of the physical world, or better. However, like any issue so complex, opinions vary. Overall, it is probably somewhat beneficial to the forest products industries.

Catalyst Paper Corporation announced it is converting Powell River mill's paper machine 11 to produce a paper-towel product, a niche market manager Fred Chinn said has growth opportunity.

Stora Enso has opened an innovation center focused on the development of biomaterials as part of its strategy to transform into a renewable materials company.

The Mondi Group announced that it has decided not to acquire two of Walki's industrial packaging plants.

The curtailment will begin 7 a.m. Monday and "is expected to last seven days for the entire mill and will be extended an additional two days for certain product grades and paper machines," the company said in a press release. No other KapStone mills will be affected.

Paper machine PM 12 is already up and running, while it has now been assessed that PM 11 will be able to be restarted in mid-March.

No injuries were reported during blaze.

Orient Paper noted that the temporary suspension of production will not impact its tissue paper operations.

The final order follows a decision by the department last month to impose the duties at rates of 18 to 20 percent.

A federal judge has ruled Verso Paper's agreement to sell mills in Rumford and Biron, Wisconsin, was sufficient to settle antitrust complaints stemming from its $1.4 billion purchase of larger competitor NewPage.

Stora Enso will invest EUR 16 million to start pellet production and to renew the boiler at Ala Sawmill in Sweden.

The fire was reported at 10:15 a.m. on Saturday.

Dow Chemical and the DuPont Co. have announced that they are merging in a $130 billion chemical industry megadeal.