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Suzano, the world's largest producer of hardwood pulp, and Sofidel, a leading European tissue paper producer, announce "Together we plant the future", a landmark three-year pilot project which will advance ecological conservation and restoration, alongside supporting socio-economic development in the Amazon region in Brazil.

Hank Ketcham, Chairman of West Fraser's Board of Directors, announced that Ray Ferris, President and Chief Executive Officer, plans to retire on December 31, 2023.

Essity has appointed Sandra Åberg as Vice President and Head of Investor Relations, effective September 1, 2023. Sandra is currently Director Investor Relations at Essity. The current Head of Investor Relations, Johan Karlsson, will assume the role of Vice President Business Control at Essity.

International technology group Andritz has received an order from Stora Enso to optimize the fiberline at the Enocell pulp mill in Uimaharju, Finland.

In a recent press release, NC State announced that "A group of researchers from the NC State Department of Forest Biomaterials has been selected to lead a $10 million, public-private research initiative aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the forest products industry."

As we discussed last week, this year we are using a different format. Fos the Rat is interviewing Mr. Jim in a side room at the Pulp Rat Convention. Last week's story relayed matters that can happen within one's company. This week, we'll move outside the walls and see what can go wrong when an outside company has an evil intent.

Cascades inc., a leader in the recovery and manufacturing of green packaging and hygiene products, announces that the second paper machine at its St. Helens, Oregon Tissue plant will be closed, resulting in the complete shutdown of the facility. The end of operations will be effective at the beginning of October.

After this accident, people created ruckus by keeping the dead body of the deceased laborer on the road and demanded permanent job and compensation to the affected family.

Mark W. Johnson named new Chief Legal Officer and Rajeev Kapur appointed Chief Information Officer.

LP Building Solutions (LP), a leading manufacturer of high-performance building products, announced that Gabriel Farias has been named Vice President of OSB Manufacturing and Landon Stephens as Director of OSB Sales and Marketing Planning.

Sonoco has added two new cold seal structures to the growing family of EnviroFlex® Paper products receiving How2Recycle® Widely recyclable pre-qualification.

Vida's CEO Måns Johansson has been appointed President of Canfor Europe. Måns has been Vida's CEO since 2019 and before that sales manager for the group. Now he will assume the role of President of Canfor Europe while remaining as CEO of Vida.

Ms. Baker joins Clearwater Paper with extensive finance and executive leadership experience. In her last two roles she served as CFO, first at PGT Innovations and then at Hyliion Holdings.

The investment will be financed by bank loans and equity and is expected to be completed during the first half of 2025.

Under the agreement, LP to continue to manufacture and sell LP WeatherLogic® Air & Water Barrier.

The Lenzing Group has again been awarded platinum status in the EcoVadis CSR rating. Covering the most important areas of corporate social responsibility--environment, fair working conditions, human rights, as well as ethics and sustainable procurement--it is the third time it has won the distinction from among 100,000 companies. This puts Lenzing among the top 1 percent of companies being reviewed.

EcoVadis has recognised UPM with a platinum score based on the company's sustainability performance in the following four categories: Environment, Labour and human rights, Ethics and Sustainable procurement.

CenturyPly successfully produced first fibers with its recently installed Andritz pressurized refining system at its medium-density fiberboard (MDF) production plant in Punjab, India.

Andritz has received an order from Andhra Paper Limited in Rajahmundry, India for a recovery boiler upgrade and sustainable technologies to increase capacity and reach environmental goals at the mill.

The upgrade will take place during the mill's annual shutdown in October 2023.

A few years ago, Sappi launched a multi-year modernisation plan to improve both production and paper quality of its Tugela mill, based in Mandeni in KwaZulu-Natal.

HKB-Hoa Lu Paper Co., Ltd. has successfully started up an OCC (old corrugated containers) line and a reject treatment system delivered by Andritz at its mill in Nho Quan District, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam.

Paper recycling rate was nearly 68%. Cardboard recycling rate was more than 93%.

Timothy Hess has decided to step down from his position as President and Chief Executive Officer for health reasons, effective August 7, 2023. In addition, the Company's Board of Directors announced that following a comprehensive search process, it has selected Ross Bushnell to succeed Hess as Pixelle's President and Chief Executive Officer.

Shareholders to Receive $170 Per Share in Cash