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Ennis has assumed leadership of the organization and will work in partnership with Mill Rock Capital on future growth initiatives. He replaces Eric Popham, a board member of Mill Rock Packaging and a Senior Principal at Mill Rock Capital, who has served as interim CEO for the past six months.

Most Loved Workplaces® certify companies where employees are the happiest and most satisfied at work.

A study released by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (RRD) found the market's most pressing challenges forced packaging decision makers to shift priorities and rethink operations, with 90% changing how their packaging is sourced. The Unpackaging Reality Report explores how converging disruptive issues like supply chain volatility, inflation, labor shortages, and increasing sustainability pressures have impacted the industry.

Fleas and ticks seem particularly bad this year. If your cat or small dog seems lethargic, they may be overrun with fleas. They can literally drain the life out of a small animal. Our vet recommends a vet supplied topical treatment rather than OTC medicines from retail stores.

Over 30 firefighters from several localities put out a fire at the WestRock paper mill early Tuesday morning.

The transaction comprises the UPM Steyrermühl site with approx. 400 employees, including the newsprint paper machine with an annual capacity of 320,000 tonnes and the Steyrermühl sawmill operations with an annual timber capacity of 370,000 cubic meters. The parties have agreed not to disclose the value of the deal.

Upon close, the new company name will be Mativ, Inc. ("Mativ") and its shares will begin trading on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "MATV." The "SWM" and "NP" ticker symbols will be deactivated.

Stora Enso is leasing the former paper machinery hall at its Veitsiluoto site in Finland to the textile technology company Infinited Fiber Company, which plans to build a commercial-scale factory to produce regenerated textile fiber from textile waste. Earlier this month Stora Enso sold its district heating business at Veitsiluoto to utility infrastructure company Nevel, a provider of advanced industrial and municipal infrastructure solutions.

The first HolyGrail 2.0 sorting prototype was successfully validated in March this year following semi-industrial trials, using NIR and digital watermarks detection to sort packaging waste with a 99 percent detection rate and the potential to develop new, more granular post-consumer recycling streams.

Patent-pending Fry Cartons are made from Pactiv Evergreen's Sentinel™ Paperboard, providing a fully integrated packaging solution to foodservice operators

JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. announced Julie C. Albrecht will join JELD-WEN as executive vice president and CFO, effective July 18, 2022. Albrecht joins JELD-WEN from Sonoco.

Kruger Products officially inaugurated its Sherbrooke Tissue Plant, which was commissioned in 2021, and also broke ground at its expansion project where another tissue plant will be built on a site adjacent to the Sherbrooke Plant by 2024.

The list recognizes U.S.-based corporations that champion women's advancement in leadership roles, with a focus on succession planning, gender pay parity, benefits programs and flexible work policies.

WIELAND had record volume of $665.5M in 2021, ranking it at No. 146, its highest ranking ever. WIELAND made the largest jump of any contractor in the US, vaulting up from No. 340 last year, according to the May 30th edition.

The project, "Hygiene is our right", highlights the rights of children and young people in relation to health, education and gender equality.

OnceMore® is the world's first large-scale process for recycling blended fabrics. The process combines post-consumer textile waste with renewable wood from responsibly managed forests to produce high-quality textile pulp.

A new Stora Enso survey among 2,400 book readers of all ages in the UK, France, Germany, and the US found that people still overwhelmingly prefer physical books for their look, their feel and even their smell.

Sonoco announced that Robert R. Hill, Jr., has been elected Lead Independent Director of its Board of Directors. Hill succeeds James M. Micali who is retiring after 19 years of service to the Company's Board.

EcoVadis assesses companies covering four themes. Metsä Board was in the top 1% of companies for Environment, Labour & Human Rights and Sustainable Procurement and in the top 7% for Ethics. For the first time Metsä Board scored the full 100/100 in the Environment section.

On June 28th at 11:00 EASTERN TIME, NOREXECO, the world's only international regulated market for trading pulp and paper derivatives, will fully explain the current state and outlook of the pulp markets in North America. Companies have historically utilized these same financial instruments for mitigation of pricing risk for energy, currency exchange, and numerous commodities, and attendees will learn that leveraging the same strategies for pulp is no different, and NO PHYSICAL DELIVERY IS REQUIRED.

If you are looking for goods and services in the pulp and paper industry, you need to check out the Paperitalo Directory!

A tough subject and one all of us, not matter what side of the negotiating table we sit, should treat with respect, not forgetting our fiduciary duty.

The initiative will focus on companies operating within at least one of four bioeconomy applications: improving the measurement and management of carbon sequestration, accelerating and maximizing agroforestry yield, developing new technologies and applications for pulp biomass, and creating more efficient pulp packaging from renewable sources.

The feasibility study will take place over the next several months, with a decision anticipated by the end of the year.

Dillard, 48, joined Sonoco in 2018 and has led the Company's corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions activities.