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UPM is among the first global forest industry companies making this commitment.

Italian tissue manufacturer Sofidel Group anticipates an early June grand opening for its $360 million facility in Inola, Oklahoma a spokesman for the company said.

Georgia Pacific announced news last week that now makes many believe there is still a future for the plant in the region. They plan to invest $37 million into operations at the Crosset

Kotkamills, a manufacturer of fully recyclable barrier boards, has signed a significant collaboration agreement with Lavazza Professional.

All Three Leading, Independent Proxy Advisory Firms Recommend that Verso Stockholders Vote FOR the Pixelle Transaction.

The company says in a business update that it expects its operating loss to be between US$15 million and US$19 million, due in part to US$19 million in closure and restructuring costs and US$74 million in depreciation and amortization.

Montana officials are worried that the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of timberland may eventually close off the public access that previous owners have allowed, despite assurances from the buyer that no such changes are planned.

Excess heat from the industrial processes at Stora Enso's Maxau paper mill in Germany, will be used to provide renewable, biomass-based district heating for the city of Karlsruhe.

The start-up of the rebuilt paper machine PM 1 is scheduled for the second half of 2021.

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The value of a delivery of this size and scope is typically around Euro 200-250 million.

Gary Byrd of Pratt Industries and Jim Thompson of Talo Analytic International recently celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the two companies' relationship. The relationship started in November of 1993.

For the occasion, Talo Analytic International commissioned a "tombstone" reminiscent of those typically prepared to celebrate a deal closing and presented it to Mr. Byrd.

Talo Analytic International began working with Pratt Industries when Pratt's Conyers, Georgia Mill was first financed. Talo Analytic International has been the principal technical adviser on the financing of every Pratt mill in the United States. Talo Analytic International was also a key adviser on the Visy Tumut Mill in Australia in the late 1990's.

Atlas/Blue Wolf's Continuous Refusals to Enter Customary Confidentiality Agreements and Desire to Continue Trading Verso Stock Underscores Company's Concerns

Corrugated box facility expected to bring 170 jobs.

Company wants decision quashed and costs awarded.

Arup Basu, (52), PhD (Technology), has been appointed President, Flexible Packaging and a member of Global Executive Team as of February 1, 2020.​

ND Paper, a subsidiary of Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Ltd., purchased the Old Town mill in 2018.

In an encouraging move with the potential to create transformative market change, China recently amended its Forest Law to include a nationwide ban on buying, transporting, and/or processing illegally sourced timber, as well as an added focus on traceability.

The world's largest pulp maker Suzano SA is developing a fiber made from dissolved pulp, which aims to be more efficient than the viscose currently used in the clothing market, Chief Financial Officer Marcelo Bacci said in an interview in Sao Paulo.

CatchMark Timber Trust, Inc. announced that Brian M. Davis, previously President and CFO, will succeed Jerry Barag as the company's next CEO and join the company's Board of Directors, effective immediately.

I have seen few project engineers successfully transfer their skills between the two extremes of the paper industry. On the front end, we find incoming long wood, chippers, chip piles and so forth. At the other end of the business, we find printing and packaging lines with the daintiest of doodads, which must nevertheless work properly and flawlessly for long periods of time.

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Metsä Group acquires nature sites that are used to compensate for the conservation areas required of forest owners by the FSC® forest certification.

McKinley Paper Company is expected to be running at full capacity at the former Nippon Paper Industries USA plant in March, three years after operations ceased at the 100-year-old Ediz Hook mill.

Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) and Louisiana-Pacific Building Solutions (LP) announced the signing of a new, 10-year agreement that will positively impact more than 6.2 million acres of Manitoba's boreal forest, an area larger than the state of Vermont and about half the size of Nova Scotia.

The IFRS fair valuations of Stora Enso's forest have increased significantly since the publication of the Group's third quarter results in October.