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SCA has appointed Anders Edholm as new Senior Vice President Communications and member of SCA's Executive Management Team.

'This is probably the lowest point that I've ever seen,' says one logging industry veteran and association president.

In an effort to encourage more recycling, Domino's and its primary box supplier, WestRock, have launched recycling.dominos.com to encourage and educate pizza lovers about their recyclables. Domino's worked with WestRock earlier this year to increase the recycled content in its pizza boxes from 40 percent to 72 percent and says they are designed for at least seven recycling cycles.

DS Smith Tecnicarton has designed and manufactured a new packaging for the metallurgical sector in four-wave laminated cardboard, especially suitable for heavy bulks in the sector, whether they are positioned or extendable parts.

Klabin currently pays royalties for the right to explore six brands owned by Sogemar. The transaction still needs to be approved by the pulpmaker's shareholders in an assembly not yet scheduled.

SCA has confirmed a new harvesting plan which shows that the harvesting level in the own forest will increase over the coming five years by an additional one million cubic meters per year more than the current level.

Verso Corporation announced that due to the public health impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and to protect the health and well-being of its employees, stockholders and the broader community, Verso will hold its 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders in a virtual meeting format only, via live audio webcast.

The Dryden maintenance outage's success in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic has garnered national attention in Canada at a time when many other pulp and paper operations are considering cancelling, or have already cancelled, similar maintenance outages. The mill shared its story through Canadian industry trade associations, and it's now considered a best management practice for other mills to consider.

Greif Inc. will close a Town of Tonawanda packaging manufacturing facility that the company has operated for 22 years.

The province is opposing a deal that Northern Pulp claims would allow it to continue paying severance to its laid off employees, its share of the cost of Boat Harbour's shutdown and cleanup, safely idle its kraft pulp mill and work toward an environmental approval for a new effluent treatment plant.

The new line will add 70,000 tons of tissue to company's current production of facial, toilet and towel tissues..