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Quad/Graphics will invest nearly $3 million and create 45 new full-time jobs by expanding at separate locations in Franklin and Versailles.

Probable cause for the fire is an overheated bearing within the paper machine.

If you want to wring unpredictability out of your energy budget, you will push conservation no matter the price of your energy sources. Energy that you don't have to purchase (at any price) reflects energy costs that cannot destabilize your energy budget. It is as simple as that.

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The company is currently evaluating location options, primarily in the southern United States.

Wood pellets have long been available to consumers in small packages and were typically burned in residential wood stoves to heat homes. Over the past decade, large industries, primarily in Europe, have latched onto wood pellets to reduce their need for coal and other fossil fuels. This move has given rise to debates.

A Boston-based investment firm has completed its purchase of the Lincoln Paper and Tissue mill and said it's open to selling the facility to a company that will restart the mill.

At closing, WestRock will pay a total consideration of approximately $105 million.

Expera Specialty Solutions in September announced its plan to close the pulp mill around the end of 2015, about a year after it bought the facility for $10.5 million in a bankruptcy auction.

Dow Chemical and DuPont, two of the biggest and oldest companies in the American chemical industry, are in talks to merge in what would be one of the largest transactions in a year full of huge deals.

In exchange, David Fischer agrees not to work for any competing company and will not disparage Greif, among other conditions.

Suzano announced that it has launched production and sales of fluff pulp, which was named Eucafluff.

Attorneys defending a $5 million class action lawsuit against Glatfelter and its Chillicothe paper mill say those bringing the suit have not provided enough facts and specifics about their claims to justify the case going to trial.

Epson's PaperLab machine reportedly breaks down workplace wastepaper and fashions it into fresh sheets on-site.

Sonae and Metso - now known as Valmet Limited - appeared for sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting breaking health and safety laws.

Rengo announced that its consolidated subsidiary, Osaka Paper has decided to withdraw from the newsprint and printing paper business at the end of March 2016.

Tranlin Inc.'s $2 billion paper plant in Chesterfield County, scheduled to be fully operational in 2020, will start partial production as early as 2018, a company official said this week.

Shorr said it will continue to provide Mack's customers with the same level of quality service.

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Supremex Inc. says it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Premier Envelope Ltd and affiliated operating entities.

Milas is a leading producer of specialist corrugated packaging and displays in Turkey.

UPM Biofuels' business and the deliveries of wood-based UPM BioVerno diesel, based on UPM's own innovation, will continue as usual.