The building materials manufacturer plans to invest $1.175 billion over the life of the project and create nearly 200 jobs, according to the governor's office. The company's initial investment in the Orange facility is $650 million.

Crews say the fire inside the Smurfit Westrock facility in Claremont started when a worker accidentally dropped a battery-powered flashlight into a compactor and smashed it.

With a capacity production of 1.200 million square meters of corrugated board packaging, THIMM employs 2,500 people in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Romania

UPM on May 13 announces that it has reached an agreement with Avantium N.V. to acquire the intellectual property related to Avantium's Ray Technology®, a process for the production of bio-based mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) and mono-propylene glycol (MPG) from plant-based sugars.

The acquisitions deepen Veritiv's presence in Central Florida and strengthen its penetration in underrepresented Northeast markets, expanding the company's packaging capabilities and regional customer coverage.