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The company stirred up controversy last year, when the SEC temporarily restricted the use of the paper producer's Singapore Green Label certification, after it emerged that there were alleged links to the Indonesian forest fires causing the transboundary haze.
The WestRock Newberg facility will permanently close and WestRock Co. officials say it will not reopen, a change from what until now had been described as an "indefinite idle" status.
The Crofton Mill has been shut down until further notice after an employee died in an industrial accident late Wednesday.
The same company marketing machinery at the shuttered Lincoln paper mill purchased the Old Town mill from Expera on Wednesday. The company says it's had interest in a wide range of uses for the pulp mill.
The former FutureMark Alsip mill, which was idled in 2014 and later sold, has begun production, according to sources.
Madison Paper Industries has cut back production by two days a week, the mill's union president said Tuesday, citing declining demand as the reason the company gave for a move that will result in less pay for workers.
Verso has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after trying for months to restructure the business without supervision of a bankruptcy court.
Mr. Gross retired in 2006 after serving the association for more than thirty years.
Anthony Pratt plans to launch a new business in Australia to supply recycled cardboard boxes to the booming e-tailing sector, replicating a division of his US operations, which he believes will grow to generate revenues of more than $US1 billion.
The Chemainus-based Halalt First Nation and its business partners are suing Catalyst Paper, alleging that a 59-year-old mill is trespassing and that the company has disclosed sensitive information, despite signing a confidentiality agreement.
Verso Corp. is preparing to file for bankruptcy protection as a grace period on a missed interest payment nears expiration, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
SCA's acquisition of Wausau Paper, a leading North American Away-from-Home Tissue Company has been closed for the total consideration of USD 513 million in cash. SCA will consolidate Wausau Paper as of 21 January 2016.
The transaction is scheduled to occur on Thursday, 21 January 2016 for total consideration of USD 513 million in cash.
Unifor says it has reached a tentative contract agreement with Resolute Forest Products covering one group of workers in a deal the union hopes will set a pattern across Quebec's forestry sector.
Arctic Paper has announced that the management of the company's subsidiary, Arctic Paper Grycksbo AB, has started negotiations with the unions with the aim of reducing fixed costs and to further increase the efficiency of the Grycksbo mill.
WG Anderson is a premier folding carton manufacturer with a focus on store branded food and consumer products markets. The company operates two world-class sheet-fed folding carton converting facilities located in Hamel, Minnesota and Newton, Iowa.
The new PCC plant is scheduled to start production in Q1/2017 with a capacity of 150,000 dry metric tons per year.
Two fire engines were dispatched to a Kimberly-Clark facility at around 8 p.m. Wednesday night after a fire broke out in a machine used to cut the large paper rolls into smaller, toilet rolls.
The Montville facility, which produces about 166,000 tons of corrugated packaging per year, was temporarily shut down in October.
The mill, which is operated by a subsidiary of OKI Pulp & Paper Mills, has been touted to be the largest in Asia, boasting up to two million tons of pulp in annual capacity.
Colorpak operates three folding carton facilities that convert approximately 38,000 tons of paperboard annually into folding cartons for the food, beverage and consumer product markets.
Firefighters are at the Verso paper mill in Jay for a reported chemical fire.
Kruger's Memphis mill just three years ago completed a $350 million expansion and upgrade. Kruger officials indicate that their Memphis facility could be expanded yet again.
Production has been suspended indefinitely at Kruger Inc.'s Gatineau mill following an intense fire early Saturday.
Saharanpur based Star Paper Mills employees had the shock of their lives Wednesday when they entered the premises of the mill and found a leopard stealthily moving around. Panic spread and before anyone could react, the cat injured one.
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