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North Pacific Paper Co. in Longview has cut staff and curtailed production in response to a "significant, sudden change" in orders due to the coronavirus, company officials said.

Georgia-Pacific will "cease operations" at its lumber facility in DeQuincy due to market conditions, the company announced over the weekend.

IT Tech Packaging, Inc. announced the Company plans commercial launch of a new tissue paper production line (the "PM10").

An employee at Sonoco of Hartsville was injured in a workplace accident Monday night at the company's number 4 mill, according to Brian Risinger with Sonoco Corporate Communications.

Clearwater Paper Corporation announced that Ann C. Nelson has been elected to the company's board of directors, effective May 13, 2020.

Clearwater Paper Corporation announced that due to the public health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and to support the health and safety of its stockholders, employees and communities, the company will provide a means to participate in its annual meeting of stockholders (the "Annual Meeting") to be held May 13, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (Pacific) via webcast.

A new slate of state-imposed operational rules will require International Paper to pay $190,000 in penalties, implement a $1 million environmental mitigation project and pay a $10,000 fine each time it fails certain water quality tests.

Greif will communicate a comprehensive transition plan to its customers to ensure orders are filled as expeditiously as possible.

Conifex Timber Inc. announced that, in response to continued weakened global demand for forest products amid sustained uncertainty from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is extending its temporary production curtailment at its Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada sawmill for four weeks to June 1, 2020. The curtailment is not expected to have any adverse consequence on bioenergy operations.

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Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. and Paper Australia Pty Ltd ("Australian Paper"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Paper Industries, complete the purchase of Orora Limited's paperboard and fibre-based packaging business in Australia/New Zealand.

A St. Louis man faces felony charges after allegedly making false claims about someone trying to kill him and shots being fired inside a Menasha Packaging facility on Tuesday morning.

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the Shenandoah Valley, with 426 confirmed cases in Harrisonburg by April 30, LSC Communications has confirmed more cases of the virus in their workplace.

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Nearly 700,000 tons of tissue produced by U.S. mills in March, more than any other month since 2007.

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At the beginning of April, Södra announced that it would be introducing short-time working at the Orrefors sawmill in light of the fall in demand related to the ongoing pandemic.

An industrial fire has caused significant damage to a building on the site where San Group is building a remanufacturing plant in Port Alberni.

Northern Pulp has been given a clearer idea of what the province is looking for if the company is to reopen its mill in Pictou County.

In July of 2018, I received a letter from a gentleman who lives in a Mennonite community in southern Ohio. He had been reading my opinion column in a small southern Ohio town's newspaper for several years. He, and the leaders of the community, liked my viewpoints. They invited me to visit them. We corresponded a bit and I arranged to come see his family and the community in October of that year. I got off the bus (the method of travel he recommended) at another small southern Ohio town and he was there to meet me with a buggy. It took us a couple of hours to make the ten-mile trip from the bus stop to his farm. Our method of propulsion for this buggy journey was, I kid you not, "Rocket"--a small middle-aged black gelding, about thirteen hands high.

The automation technology will be delivered for the start-up of the rebuilt PM 7 which is scheduled for the end of 2020.

International Paper announced a change in the format of its annual meeting of shareowners for 2020 (the "Annual Meeting") from a hybrid meeting to a virtual-only meeting via the filing of additional proxy materials with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

In a statement, Nancy Thompson, Director of Government Affairs for Weyerhaeuser, said that an employee tested positive for COVID-19 at their Plymouth mill in Washington County.

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