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According to a press release received Monday by Erin Wilson, director of communications for the N.C. Department of Labor, WestRock Kraft Paper LLC was cited with two alleged serious violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of North Carolina with a total penalty of $29,004.

According to officials, these changes will eliminate around 1,300 positions.

The Sonoco Hutchinson Paper Mill has closed, affecting over 100 employees as a result.

Sofidel launched its Language Learning Program to help employees improve vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and reading skills, all based on their personal interests and professional goals.

Successful completion of wet section rebuild by Toscotec; machine glazed PM2 produces specialty papers including MG grades, flexible packaging products.

Solenis has completed acquisition of the paper process chemicals business of Kolb Distribution Ltd., a unit of KLK Kolb Group. The deal also includes a long-term supply agreement, in which the KLK Kolb Group will manufacture paper process chemicals exclusively for Solenis.

The delivery also includes an extensive package of stock preparation, automation and service solutions.

The new PM7 line will add over 60,000 tons to the mill's annual production capacity.

Tolko Industries will restart its curtailed mills in Armstrong and Soda Creek next week.

Sylvamo, the world's paper company, is proud to announce Jean-Michel Ribiéras, chairman and chief executive officer, has been appointed to the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo for the 2023-2026 term.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Nitto Danboru is a corrugated packaging manufacturer established in 1966.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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