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Crew says the fire was fully contained in about 80 minutes. No injuries were reported in the event of the fire.

U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threat could motivate more Canadian lumber producers to shift to the U.S. southern border while accelerating efforts to find new markets, industry experts said.

In its annual report, Stora Enso reports the seedlings planted in own forests or delivered to other forest owners: a little over 20 million of the seedlings end up in our own forests in Sweden, and more than 19 million were planted on private forest owners' lands in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the Baltics.

The continued rise in the prices of wood raw materials, the negative market development, especially for CTMP pulp produced in Rottneros Mill, and a weaker USD, have had a negative impact on the Rottneros Group's financial performance in the first quarter of 2025.

Nordic Paper is currently reviewing options for its long term financing. Due to this, the Board of Directors of Nordic Paper has decided to propose no dividend for the financial year 2024 to the Annual General Meeting to be held on 28 May 2025.

Activists from Greenpeace Norden held up banners and played bird sounds through speakers to interrupt proceedings multiple times. They called on the company to adopt a clear and comprehensive policy ensuring that no wood from old-growth or natural forests is used in its products.

The decline in adjusted operating profit to Euro 190.0 million after Euro 229.2 million in 2023 was mainly caused by the division MM Food & Premium Packaging.

SIB Fixed Cost Reduction (SIB), a leader in strategic cost reduction and operational optimization, has announced a partnership with GP PRO, a division of Georgia-Pacific and a provider of advanced restroom and hygiene solutions, to showcase the KOLO® Smart Monitoring System, an IoT-driven technology designed to redefine facility management.

Valmet's new premises in Tikkurila, Vantaa, have been completed. Nearly 700 Valmet employees in Finland, mainly from Järvenpää and partly from Vantaa's Hakkila office, have moved into the new premises in early spring.

Metsä Group's tissue paper business, Metsä Tissue, in partnership with the Cleaning & Services Support Association, has celebrated and recognised the cleaning and hygiene industry's commitment to sustainability in its 2025 Sustainability Awards.

Sylvamo, the world's paper company, is partnering with ENGIE, a Brazilian low-carbon energy company, to create renewable electricity at wind farms.

he AGM adopted the accounts for 2024, adopted the Remuneration Report 2024 and the updated Remuneration Policy through an advisory resolution, and granted the Company's Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer discharge from liability for the financial period 1 January 2024-31 December 2024.

Eh, maybe not. Unless you are buying a lock washer like I mentioned last week. Lock washers should be in your automatic ordering system and never show up as a human decision once reorder quantities are established. For the bigger stuff (say $500,000 and up), go reasonably slow. Use AI to gain knowledge, but don't use it to go quicker.

International Paper, the owner of the mill, also agreed to operational and inspection changes, employee training and recordkeeping improvements and potentially upgrades of a key incineration furnace that was the focus of regulators' concerns, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency settlement.

Final preparations at the production site are ongoing, and the project budget remains unchanged.

It's hard to wrap your head around the seismic shifts happening in society, not to mention the rate of technological changes that are just around the corner.

UPM Raflatac, a global supplier of self-adhesive paper and film products, will showcase its latest sustainable innovations and expanded offerings at Labelexpo Mexico 2025 in Guadalajara, booth C72. The company will present its Carbon Act/p>

Graphic Packaging International, a global leader in sustainable consumer packaging, has signed an agreement with New Jersey-based co-packer JJM Packaging that will make the company's award-winning Boardio™ paperboard canister available to brands and retailers across the U.S. and Canada for a wider range of food products.

The implementation of the expansion project will begin in 2026.

Stora Enso's new consumer packaging board line at the Oulu site in Finland has started production ramp-up. The first customer deliveries are expected in the second quarter of 2025.

Shreveport Fire Department (SFD) continued to rotate crews in and out every three hours Sunday (March 16), a day after a three-alarm fire involving 9,500 tons of paper erupted at a Pratt Industries recycling facility at the Port of Caddo-Bossier.

This regulation is unworkable for the forest products industry in the United States and would jeopardize more than $3.5 billion worth of paper and wood products shipping into the EU market for essential products like timber or pulp for baby diapers.

The Government of Canada has announced an investment exceeding $20 million to support 67 projects aimed at strengthening British Columbia's forest sector. The funding, unveiled by Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, will enhance competitiveness, sustainability, and resilience in the industry.

Greif, Inc., a world leader in industrial packaging products and services, announced it is implementing a price increase between $50 and $70 per short ton for all grades of uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) products and a minimum 7.5 percent increase on all tube and core and protective packaging products.