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As the Verso Corp. paper mill quickly approaches a planned shutdown this month, local, state and industry leaders continue looking for ways to keep it up and running, including by finding someone to buy it.

Stora Enso and Helsinki Olympic Stadium share the aim of promoting the use of renewable materials in customer and food service packaging to reduce the climate impact of stadium operations.

Environmental policies and other regulations are the cost of doing business in the modern civilized world. If you are going to operate a business in today's world, you must do it legally, it is part of the job. I have seen a number of excuses made over the years that do nothing to endear customers to businesses when such matters are used as excuses.

The Dryden maintenance outage's success in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic has garnered national attention in Canada at a time when many other pulp and paper operations are considering cancelling, or have already cancelled, similar maintenance outages. The mill shared its story through Canadian industry trade associations, and it's now considered a best management practice for other mills to consider.

Greif Inc. will close a Town of Tonawanda packaging manufacturing facility that the company has operated for 22 years.

The province is opposing a deal that Northern Pulp claims would allow it to continue paying severance to its laid off employees, its share of the cost of Boat Harbour's shutdown and cleanup, safely idle its kraft pulp mill and work toward an environmental approval for a new effluent treatment plant.

Verso Corporation announced that due to the public health impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and to protect the health and well-being of its employees, stockholders and the broader community, Verso will hold its 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders in a virtual meeting format only, via live audio webcast.

Klabin currently pays royalties for the right to explore six brands owned by Sogemar. The transaction still needs to be approved by the pulpmaker's shareholders in an assembly not yet scheduled.

SCA has confirmed a new harvesting plan which shows that the harvesting level in the own forest will increase over the coming five years by an additional one million cubic meters per year more than the current level.

DS Smith Tecnicarton has designed and manufactured a new packaging for the metallurgical sector in four-wave laminated cardboard, especially suitable for heavy bulks in the sector, whether they are positioned or extendable parts.

SCA has appointed Anders Edholm as new Senior Vice President Communications and member of SCA's Executive Management Team.

'This is probably the lowest point that I've ever seen,' says one logging industry veteran and association president.

In an effort to encourage more recycling, Domino's and its primary box supplier, WestRock, have launched recycling.dominos.com to encourage and educate pizza lovers about their recyclables. Domino's worked with WestRock earlier this year to increase the recycled content in its pizza boxes from 40 percent to 72 percent and says they are designed for at least seven recycling cycles.

The new line will add 70,000 tons of tissue to company's current production of facial, toilet and towel tissues..

At about 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, deputies were dispatched to the back gate of Verso's Escanaba Mill. While preparing to dump a wood chip trailer at the mill, a driver had heard a man yelling from inside the trailer. The driver left the mill and called law enforcement.

BillerudKorsnäs has appointed Christoph Michalski as new President and CEO. He succeeds Lennart Holm, who has been acting President and CEO since November 2019. Christoph Michalski will assume his new position November 1, 2020.

UPM's Jyväskylä plywood mill will be permanently closed on July 31, 2020, UPM announced. The jobs cut will be 147.

Sappi Europe is very pleased to report that its Alfeld site PM 3 is operational again as of the 20th of July, significantly ahead of the planned restart date. As previously reported the largest area of reconstruction focused on the machine hall with limited damage to the machine.

Paper maker Verso Corp. will provide death benefits of $2,750 to each of 155 union retirees of a now-shuttered paper mill in Wickliffe, Ky., ending a proposed class action filed in the Southern District of Ohio.

Atlas Engineered Products ("AEP") has completed the acquisition of selected assets of Trusstem Industries Inc., marking a major milestone in AEP's plans for expansion into the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada.

Veritiv launches Vine, providing customers the packaging design quality and agility of a branding firm with the sourcing strength of a leading distribution company.

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company announced that it has unified its Content and Creative Services (CCS) and Global Outsourcing (GO) capabilities to expand and streamline offerings for clients.

Dune Packaging Ltd has partnered with Mondi to grow its market share by offering more complex, multicolour designs on its open mouth paper bag packaging.

Smurfit Kappa has unveiled a new, state-of-the-art solar panel system in its Colombian Forestry operation. The Solar One photovoltaic system will generate 50% of the energy needs of the nursery and the entomology and plant pathology laboratories.