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International Paper announced that Sharon R. Ryan, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, will retire effective June 30, 2022.

The answer to dirty energy today seems to be electricity. For mobile transportation, cars and trucks, electricity moves the emissions from many points (tail pipes) to either single points (power stations) or theoretically no points (solar, wind and hydroelectric). The first thing we need to understand is that our choice of energy is cost, ease of use, and emotions. Notice that glaringly absent from this list is science. Energy choices have long since left science out of the equation.

Fighting Fires Together campaign will provide specialized support to firefighters on front lines of wildfires

Ox Industries acquires a 150,000 square foot facility in Hanover, PA to expand its converting capacity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. The facility will house next-generation equipment and manufacturing practices and expand just in time stocking products and services.

The rebuilt plant is scheduled to start up before the end of 2022.

Iconex, the world's leading provider of highly differentiated label solutions and low-cost paper receipts, announced the acquisition of Liberty Greenleaf. Founded over three decades ago, Liberty Greenleaf is one of the premier manufacturers of point-of-sale (POS) and industrial packaging solutions, with operations in Phoenix, Arizona and Morristown, Tennessee. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The company says the project will allow the company to add capacity for their molded fiber products.

The company currently expects a loss of about 10,000 tonnes of NBSK pulp production in total across all three sites.

Ms. Bayles is Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain for Aramark Corporation, a global food and facilities company.

Sonoco will raise the price for all paperboard tubes and cores by a minimum of 6%, effective with shipments in the United States and Canada on or after June 10, 2022.

Natron-Hayat Pulp and Paper Mill in Maglaj, Bosnia-Herzegovina, has ordered a press technology upgrade from Valmet. The delivery includes two refurbished Twin Roll Presses and additional equipment and services to secure the trouble-free operation of the presses.

Valmet has been selected in a new public procurement process as the tenderer for completing the biomass boiler, flue gas cleaning and flue gas condensing system works for Vilnius Combined Heat and Power Plant (Vilnius CHP) in Lithuania, the company announced.

UPM had permanently ceased production and agreed a social plan for its employees at its Chapelle mill in Grand-Couronne, France already in June 2020.

UFP Industries announced that its affiliate, Deckorators, Inc., acquired Cedar Poly LLC, for $17 million. The purchase price includes incentive payments of up to $1.5 million over three years if Cedar Poly meets certain performance goals.

Mondi announced €125 million investment to expand and upgrade its Kuopio mill in Finland with expected start-up by the fourth quarter of 2023.

As part of its long-term global commitment to climate protection and sustainable production, Sappi will be abandoning the use of coal at its German site in Stockstadt as a next step. To this end, the current coal-fired Boiler 9 will be decommissioned, and the mill will be operated using only renewable biomass and natural gas.

Reemphasizes Need for the Board to Immediately Repay Debt and Refinance RYAM's 2024 Senior Notes.

The fire that started at a workshop during a roll test has been now extinguished. The origin of the fire is under investigation.

Plaintiff alleges company's negligence led to third-degree burns over 45% of body

Stora Enso invests in ACDF Industrie SAS and becomes a 35% shareholder of the French wood processing company.

If it vibrates, FPA can analyze the situation. If it is not supposed to vibrate, FPA can facilitate the solution.

Paper Excellence announced that it is nearing completion of a significant project to winterize the pulp mill at Prince Albert Pulp Inc (PAPI). Winterizing the mill means that the interior of the mill is now heated for the first time since 2014, when the site last operated. The project will cost approximately $500,000.

This is the first-time that bio-syngas will be used in the paper industry for paper drying.

In a recent article from CBC in Canada, it was announced that a Bill 22 Electricity Statues Amendment Act was introduced in Alberta, under Canadian legislature to allow companies to generate and store their own electricity and sell the excess back to the power grid.

These price increases are in response to inflationary cost increases in transportation, energy, labor, chemicals, maintenance, and other raw materials and continued strong demand across the Greif paperboard and converting network.