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Responding to what union officials consider the company's minimalist approach to COVID safety precautions, two locals with the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers have requested to bargain for extra measures with Nippon Dynawave Packaging in Longview.

The company has been donating thousands of corrugated boxes to a number of hospitals, medical units and charitable organizations such as the Civil Protection, Blue Cross, local foodbanks and others across the communities where it operates.

The WestRock paper mill has started screening its Longview mill workers at least four days of the week to "further minimize" potential coronavirus exposures.

A fire in a pit at Pratt Industries Paper Mills in Staten Island on Sunday night prompted an "all hands" response from the FDNY, a spokesman for the department said.

Domtar plans to temporarily idle the operations of its Hawesville, Kentucky, mill beginning May 5th 2020. The company expects to restart the H1 paper machine in June 2020, while the H2 paper machine will remain idled until July 2020.

A total of five employees at Georgia Pacific in Madison have tested positive for COVID-19, the highly contagious and potentially lethal coronavirus ravaging the globe.

Two of the mill's three paper machines restarted last week but pulp is being provided from other mills for the time being, hurting the loggers and truckers who provided the raw material that's transformed into paper.

North Strabane firefighters responded Tuesday morning, 22 April, to an International Paper facility for a roof-top incinerator that had caught fire.

The system was specifically developed for paper manufacturers that impose the most stringent efficiency requirements on their production process.

Valmet will supply a fine paper making line with stock preparation, an extensive scope of automation and a recovery boiler for Sun Paper in Beihai, China. Also, another stock preparation line for a different Sun Paper site will be supplied.

Paperitalo Publications did a follow-up survey regarding the coronavirus and how it's affecting the pulp and paper industry. Here are the results...

Paperitalo Publications did a follow-up survey regarding the coronavirus and how it's affecting the pulp and paper industry. Here are the results...

In a 2-1 decision, the court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to set limits on air pollutants that pulp mill combustion sources are known to emit.

On April 22, 2020, the Pixelle Specialty Solutions mill in Jay, ME restarted two of its paper machines. The A4 and A5 machines are now running 24x7 and customer service and sales personnel are taking orders from customers.

Arauco will close its medium density fiberboard (MDF) production facility in Bennettsville, South Carolina May 18.

Valmet announced on April 21, 2020 the start of co-determination negotiations for temporary lay-offs in Finland.

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To mark Earth Day's 50th anniversary, Earth Day Canada and Earth Day Initiative, in collaboration with Corporate Knights, have released the 50 Top Business Moves for the Planet. Cascades is pleased to be included on this list for its pioneering role in recycling.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö has developed a face mask material as part of the Resilience project, administrated by the French Government.

The UPM Blandin paper mill is the latest long-standing business in northeastern Minnesota to close due to the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic.

The annual report details Greif's commitment to continuous improvement through an integrated approach to environmental and social responsibility. The report provides the company's 2025 sustainability goals and highlights progress and strategies underway to achieve those goals.

Safety failures seem to fall into two categories.

For a second time, FITNIR Analyzers was selected by Södra, a leading pulp producer based in Sweden, for its online pulp liquor analyzer.

Workers at Sappi's Cloquet paper mill will return to work Thursday following a one-week layoff as the mill prepares for a three-week outage.

The acquisition was finalized April 17, and New-Indy will begin operations immediately.