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Firefighters rushed to put out a fire at International Paper in Garden City.

The Graphic Packaging International mill in West Monroe was damaged in one of two Easter tornadoes that ripped through Ouachita Parish.

The Swanson Group is laying off 300 workers from its plywood mill in Glendale and cutting the pay of those still working due to a shortage of orders, as businesses grind to a halt during the COVID-19 pandemic.

They say the two cases involved workers on different shifts. The first case was confirmed on March 26 and the second on March 31.

A DuPont employee has died due to COVID-19 complications and four other employees have tested positive at the facility in Chesterfield.

As the global impacts of COVID-19 continue to evolve, there is the potential that further adjustments to operating plans may be required.

Sappi's board of directors and the group and regional leadership teams from Europe, North America and Southern Africa have volunteered to take a 10% reduction in salaries or fees for the three months ending June 30. This is in recognition of the uncertain trading environment that will persist across the world for some time, in light of COVID-19.

There are 650 employees working at Ortviken paper mill. Ortviken produces coated and uncoated paper for magazines, catalogues and commercial print. The production capacity is 775,000 tonnes per annum.

Smurfit Kappa has launched a new 'Design for Help' portfolio of products to help alleviate some of the current challenges being experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mondi will not pay a final dividend for 2019, it said on Thursday, as it cuts costs and capital spending after seeing a deterioration in its order book in Europe and South Africa from the end of March.

Freeman Lumber announced Thursday that the Greenfield-based outfit could no longer afford to operate due to a lack of markets for wood chips following the closure of the Northern Pulp mill earlier this year.

Several crews responded to a call for a fire at the Kimberly-Clark Corp. plant located in Beech Island on Thursday morning.

The former site of the White Pigeon Paper Company -- now owned and operated by Graphic Packaging International -- has been added to the state's list of PFAS contamination sites.

The company said it identified other workers who may have come in close contact with the employee. They are now in self-quarantine.

A worker notified management that their tests results came back positive for COVID-19, according to Tom Srother, Senior Communications Manager at Georgia-Pacific. This worker has been out of work since March 30.

Clearwater Paper confirmed the first positive case of COVID-19 among the workforce at its Lewiston mill Monday.

IT Tech Packaging, Inc. announced that its tissue paper production lines are now running at full production capacity to fulfill orders. The average selling price of tissue paper increased 8% from USD $836 per tonne to USD $903 per tonne in the first quarter, resulting from growing demand because of Covid-19.

Mercer International Inc. reports that its joint venture Cariboo pulp mill in British Columbia, Canada will be taking approximately 4 weeks of downtime starting on or about April 20, 2020, resulting in an approximate reduction of NBSK production of 30,000 tonnes of which Mercer's share is 15,000 tonnes.

The company is planning reductions in plywood production of 25-35% and in EWP volumes of 20-40% depending on location, in comparison to 1Q levels. The reductions in production are expected to be implemented through a combination of periodic curtailments and reductions in operating schedules at specific facilities.

Quad/Graphics Inc. said it has temporarily furloughed employees throughout the company and suspended operations at a number of its plants.

West Fraser says it will further reduce its SPF production by 30M to 40M board feet of production per week which represents between 45 and 60% of SPF production.

As part of the #RollingItForward initiative, Mercedes-Benz Canada and its dealer network are working with Kruger Products to deliver the essentials to front-line healthcare professionals--allowing them to focus on their critical work helping people all over the country.

Paperitalo Publications is doing a follow-up survey regarding the coronavirus and how it's affecting the pulp and paper industry.

Company to idle Kingsport, Tennessee mill and Ashdown, Arkansas A62 paper machine for three months.

Kokusai Pulp & Paper ("KPP") and SEQUANA SA have entered into an agreement, according to which KPP agreed to acquire 53,395,148 ordinary shares of Antalis SA held by Sequana, representing approximately 75.2% of Antalis' share capital and 82.5% of voting rights.