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Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation began its annual maintenance shutdown on September 10. The purpose of such a shutdown is to carry out preventative maintenance on non-operating equipment.
On Tuesday, the ground was officially broken for the new evaporator and brown stock washing system at Södra's pulp mill at Mörrum, Sweden.
After 45 years in suburban Federal Way, Weyerhaeuser has begun its long-planned headquarters move to Seattle's Pioneer Square. The first wave of employees moved in on Monday.
A major Indonesian pulp and paper firm, Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (Rapp), has temporarily ceased operations in part of a concession in Riau province, as forestry authorities begin to review whether it built canals on peatland in the area illegally.
European Union antitrust regulators have halted their review of the proposed $130-billion merger between Dow Chemical and DuPont.
WestRock Company announced that Bob Feeser has been named president of Consumer Packaging and Jeff Chalovich has been named president of Corrugated Packaging. Jim Porter, who currently serves as president of Paper Solutions, will transition to a new role as president of Business Development and Latin America, and Craig Gunckel has been named president, Enterprise Solutions.
KapStone announced that it is building a new state-of-the-art sheet plant in Ontario, California.
Catalyst Paper Corporation announced this week that the Halalt First Nation has discontinued two lawsuits previously commenced against Catalyst.
DS Smith says it has completed the acquisition of Deku-Pack, following receipt of competition authority clearance.
Resolute Forest Products Inc. has hit a setback in its high profile, ongoing defamation suit against Greenpeace and two of its activists.
Amcor has struck a deal to bolster its specialty containers operations with the $US280 million acquisition of a North American business serving personal care and food markets.
Universal Forest Products Inc. signed a definitive agreement to buy idX Corp. in a deal valued at about $68 million.
Four workers were taken to hospital with severe smoke inhalation after a fire in a paper machine at the Resolute Forest Products facility in Gatineau on Wednesday night.
Packaging Corporation of America has completed its acquisition of TimBar Corporation, a large independent corrugated products producer, in a cash-free, debt-free transaction. Funding for the acquisition came from a new $385 million five-year term loan facility.
Stora Enso has completed the divestment of its Kabel coated mechanical paper mill in Germany, to Kabel Premium Pulp & Paper GmbH, owned by a German based investor group.
Canadian tissue paper manufacturer Kruger Products Inc. is looking to boost its production and exports by investing $52 million in its Trenton, Ont. operations.
Rolls of tissue were passed around the dozens of people gathered outside the local pulp mill Wednesday afternoon, but not because anybody was upset. The atmosphere was festive as the crowd celebrated the formal opening of the St. Croix Tissue mill adjacent to Woodland Pulp.
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and the Finnish state export credit agency Finnvera Oyj have signed a 9.5-year loan agreement on a $225 million (Euro 199 million) expansion of a eucalyptus pulp mill project in Brazil.
A man was treated for inhalation of chemical fumes following a sodium hypochlorite spill Monday morning at Expera Specialty Solutions.
The biggest economic development deal in Chesterfield, Virginia's history appears to have fallen off schedule - so much so that the company, Tranlin Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of China-based Shandong Tranlin Paper Co., has deferred accepting millions in state grants tied to the project.
Catalyst Paper is installing a $500,000 pump system in Lake Cowichan to maintain minimum water levels required in the Cowichan River.
Following a six-month investigation, Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) enforcement agents arrested two men on multiple felony charges.
A migrant laborer from Bihar was reportedly shredded in a machine used to make pulp in a paper mill located near Bhavani Sagar on Tuesday morning. Barring a small bone and a few pieces of the T-shirt that he wore, his entire body had turned into pulp.
Today about 85% of SCA's sales derives from the hygiene business and about 15% from the forest products business.
Tolko Industries Ltd. is shuttering its operations in The Pas as of Dec. 2, throwing more than 300 people out of work.
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