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Holmen is investing SEK 450 million ($43.9 million) in rebuilding a paper machine at Braviken Paper Mill in Sweden.

The MM Group (MM) has approved a comprehensive investment project to increase the long-term competitiveness of its largest board and paper mill, MM Kwidzyn in Poland. Energy and CO2 cost reduction, pulp integration and entry into the market for sack kraft papers are to set the mill up for sustainable future success.

Mercer Peace River (MPR) announces the completion of the Fibre Procurement Project. This milestone was celebrated with a ribbon cutting in front of the newly revitalized woodroom at the MPR site with dignitaries in attendance.

Packaging and speciality paper manufacturer Sappi Europe has invested a double-digit million euro sum in a new plant to produce innovative high-barrier papers - including an all-new type of barrier coating machine. Recently put into operation at the company's Alfeld site in Germany, the in-house solution will produce high-barrier papers for recyclable packaging for food and non-food applications.

Following a guilty plea in the Ontario Court of Justice, Resolute Forest Products Inc. was fined $120,000.

The investment is planned to be operational in 2024.

Kristina Enander, President of SCA's Pulp business area, will assume the role of Senior Vice President Strategic Development on May 1, 2023.

Tero Kokko, Ph.D. has been appointed President, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) at Valmet as of June 1, 2023. In his new position, Tero Kokko is a member of Valmet's Executive Team and reports to President and CEO Pasi Laine.

Valmet will deliver key technologies and automation systems for Henan Longyuan Paper's new PM7 testliner line at their mill in Henan province in China. The order also includes a quality control system for the rebuild of their PM3 machine.

International technology group Andritz has received an order from the Colombian wipes converting company Quimicolor to deliver a complete neXline spunlace line for nonwovens production to its Medellín plant.

Solenis, a leading global producer of specialty chemicals used in water-intensive industries, has released its 2022 Sustainability Report, summarizing the company's environmental stewardship, social responsibility and governance (ESG) initiatives for the previous fiscal year.

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The start-up is planned for 2024.

DS Smith announced an ambitious upgrade program to its kraft paper mill in Viana, Portugal. A multiyear Euro 145 million package of investments will bring some of the most up to date paper-making machinery to Viana, rebuilding the mills paper machine and reducing CO2 emissions.

It is energy month again, and, quite frankly, I am getting tired of talking about energy matters. As I have stated before, the first energy crisis occurred about four months after I received my undergraduate degree. We have been talking about energy ever since, not only in our mills, but in life in general. At first, the issue was, do we have enough? At the time, known petroleum reserves were about eight years, which would have gotten us to 1981. Obviously that was incorrect. Later in my career, climate change became the issue when the powers that be decided we face global warming instead of global cooling.

Rajeski's Expanded Role Includes Responsibility for Overseeing all Aspects of the Business.

Van Den Heuvel was convicted of fraud in Wisconsin and handed a 7.5-year prison sentence in 2019. He was released during the COVID-19 pandemic to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest in Cheboygan.

LP Building Solutions (LP) and Forex Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement under which LP will acquire the assets owned by Wawa OSB Inc., a subsidiary of Forex Inc.

Due to materially lower earnings forecasts for the full year results 2023, Stora Enso's new guidance is that the full-year 2023 operational EBIT is expected to be significantly lower than for the full-year 2022 (Euro 1,891 million).

Metsä Group's Kemi bioproduct mill will start up in the Q3 2023.

PotlatchDeltic Corporation announced that Jerry Richards will relocate to accept an opportunity with another company. Mr. Richards has resigned as the Company's Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective April 19, 2023 and he will be focused on ensuring a smooth transition through his final day on May 12, 2023. Mr. Richards joined the Company in 2013.

When I was young, binge drinking seemed to be the personally destructive behavior of choice. In one mill where I worked, the staff was in the habit of having a beer blowout after every shutdown day. I don't know if that is still a widespread activity or not. Of course, drugs, especial fentanyl, are widespread today and kill many people. We have had this tragedy hit close to us. Today, however, I want to talk about overeating and weight. We all, including me, struggle with this.

A fire of unknown origin broke out at the Soundview Paper Co. in downtown Putney on Friday afternoon, drawing dozens of firefighters from area departments to fight the blaze on a hot afternoon.

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Members' motion to look into Paper Excellence to be presented at provincial council meeting in May.