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Showing 19 articles from March 2, 2023.

People in the News

LP Building Solutions Names Berman and Hopkins as Vice Presidents

Berman appointed Vice President, Chief Tax Officer; Hopkins appointed Vice President, Treasurer.

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Lynnette Crowder Joins Mill Rock Packaging as Chief Human Resources Officer

Crowder is a highly accomplished human resources executive with 20 years of experience building world-class people organizations and driving high-performing cultures.

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Roseburg names Matt Lawless VP-General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Matt will join the company's Executive Team and help set strategy and overall direction for the business.

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Sonoco's Elizabeth Rhue Named to Waste360's 40 Under 40 Awards List for 2023

Recognized as a Next-Generation Leader in the Waste, Recycling and Organics Industry.

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Jim's Articles

Week of 6 March 2023: A Maintenance Travesty
Week of 6 March 2023: A Maintenance Travesty

If you have taken an automobile to a dealer's repair shop lately, you have no doubt noticed how clean and neat the facility is. I have been wheeled into operating rooms in prestigious hospitals with more clutter and cobwebs than one will find in the typical auto dealer repair shop. Automobile dealers work at a high charge out rate, out of a rate book. They have a constant struggle between the profitability demanded by their owners and the resistance of the customers to high prices. The repair shop is a profit center. The repair services provided by the maintenance department in your pulp or paper mill are treated as a cost center, a cost center the mill does not want to own. Big difference from the automobile dealership repair shop. Perhaps this is at least one reason why pulp and paper mill maintenance centers are so unkempt and trashy.

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Industry News

BlueLinx Announces Expansion of Distribution Partnership with LP
BlueLinx Announces Expansion of Distribution Partnership with LP

The expanded distribution will begin later in the first quarter of 2023.

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Essity publishes Annual and Sustainability Report 2022
Essity publishes Annual and Sustainability Report 2022

Hygiene and health company Essity is publishing its Annual and Sustainability Report for 2022 on www.essity.com.

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Huhtamaki's 2022 Annual Report published
Huhtamaki's 2022 Annual Report published

The report is available in Finnish and English apart from the Sustainability Report, which is available only in English.

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International Paper Announces Rebrand on 125th Anniversary
International Paper Announces Rebrand on 125th Anniversary

The company unveiled a new identity to reflect its focus on what's next.

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LSC reorganizes operations
LSC reorganizes operations

LSC Communications-MCL announced that it has reorganized operations to strengthen its ability to serve the rapidly changing needs of its customers. The magazine and catalog printing unit will now go to market as three brands: ENRU™Logistics and Postal Optimization, KODI Collective™ Marketing Execution Services, and LSC™ Print Solutions.

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Nippon Paper announces price hike
Nippon Paper announces price hike

They say they really don't want to, but they have to.

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Leading Stories

Chile's Arauco warns of $50 million hit from wildfires
Chile's Arauco warns of $50 million hit from wildfires

Chilean pulp and wood panel maker Arauco, the forestry arm of industrial group Empresas Copec, on Wednesday estimated it could take a $50 million hit due to fires raging in the country's south.

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Kruger: Fibre supply needed to keep Kamloops pulp mill going
Kruger: Fibre supply needed to keep Kamloops pulp mill going

Kamloops council has agreed to send a letter of support to the provincial government.

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Mercer International Inc. signs major Mass Timber construction project
Mercer International Inc. signs major Mass Timber construction project

Mercer International Inc. reported that it has signed its first major mass timber project contract with a large consumer products retailer. The project, which is comprised of cross-laminated timber panels, glue-laminated beams and connector elements, is expected to utilize four months of capacity at Mercer's Spokane facility on a one-shift basis over the course of 2023.

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Metsä Tissue to Build Automated Warehouse at Mariestad Mill in Sweden
Metsä Tissue to Build Automated Warehouse at Mariestad Mill in Sweden

The construction work on the new warehouse is expected to start at the end of 2023, to be put into operation in the summer of 2025.

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No path to restarting Taylor mill, Canfor says
No path to restarting Taylor mill, Canfor says

Canfor Corp. says it is does not see a path forward to restarting its pulp mill operations in Taylor, and has begun exploring alternative uses for the site.

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Rengo acquires Nitto Danboru in Japan
Rengo acquires Nitto Danboru in Japan

Nitto Danboru is a corrugated packaging manufacturer established in 1966.

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Stora Enso completes the divestment of its Maxau paper site to Schwarz Produktion
Stora Enso completes the divestment of its Maxau paper site to Schwarz Produktion

The enterprise value of the transaction is approximately EUR 210 million.

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Supplier News

Stora Enso starts up energy efficient Andritz LimeCool system at Imatra pulp mill in Finland

The start-up took place at the end of 2022.

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