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The Molpus Woodlands Group, LLC, a timberland investment management organization headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, has on behalf of a client, successfully purchased approximately 14,306 acres of timberland in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Pixelle Specialty Solutions has promoted Timothy R. Hess to Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mr. Hess will continue to report to Steven J. Klinger, Executive Chairman of Pixelle.

The Chilean Supreme Court fined local paper manufacturer CMPC and a division of Sweden's SCA for having colluded for at least a decade in the Chilean tissue and toilet paper market, the Chilean antitrust authority said Monday.

Over the next three years, J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI) is forecasting over 6,800 full time hires as well as 2700+ student hires across the company's diverse operations in Canada and the U.S.

Feldmuehle GmbH has successfully completed the self-administration insolvency proceedings that began at the end of 2018.

Urges Stockholders to Vote FOR Pixelle Transaction, Verso's Seven Nominees and in Accordance with Verso's Recommendations on All Other Proposals.

Company's Maine mill receives industry certification for food safety, ensuring products meet industry standards.

BASF has closed the previously announced transaction to divest its ultrafiltration membrane business to DuPont Safety & Construction (DuPont).

The start-up is planned for the first half of 2021.

The billion-dollar Visy Pulp and Paper mill near Tumut has set up constant fire patrols around its mill and is ready to implement an action plan to shut down its operation if the Dunns Road fire should threaten.

Tequaly Técnica Industrial Ltda signed an order for a gas incinerator, instrumentation and services to be installed in Klabin Monte Alegre mill in Brazil.

Universal Forest Products, Inc. announced it has completed the reorganization of its operations and is now operating as UFP Industries, a change announced in August 2019. The name UFP Industries more accurately describes the company today.

Board Urgently Requires the Experience and Stockholder Perspective of Atlas and Blue Wolf Nominees.

This is an interesting time for capital projects in our industry.

Sonoco announced it has completed the acquisition of Thermoform Engineered Quality, LLC, and Plastique Holdings, LTD, (together TEQ), a global manufacturer of thermoformed packaging serving healthcare, medical device and consumer markets, from ESCO Technologies, Inc. for $187 million in cash.

I have been around long enough to remember when retail interest rates were in the +20% range. At the time, corporations were not usually being charged at these levels, but they did reach into the mid-teens. The usual reaction at that point was not to do capital projects, but to wait. Even if corporations were self-funding, they often waited because they could make larger and safer returns with their money at interest in the bank. Today, interest rates are trivial, even for construction loans. Gone are the days when there was a sharp focus on construction interest costs.

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Ahlstrom-Munksjö has completed the sale of its glass fiber reinforcement business in Mikkeli, Finland, to Vitrulan Composites Oy.

Oji Holdings Corporation announces that Oji HD and ISHIZUKA GLASS Co., Ltd. have concluded a basic joint venture agreement on paper container-related business.

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The mill is planning to reopen sometime in January, Rob Baron, a president and the chief executive officer of Marcal Paper said in a statement on Monday. He did not provide a specific opening date, but said a merger with Pennsylvania-based Nittany Paper made the reopening possible.

If the private equity firms win the election next month, it will likely pave the way for a merger of Verso and Twin Rivers and derail the $400 million sale of Verso mills in Jay and Stevens Point, Wisconsin, to specialty paper company Pixelle Specialty Solutions, the board warned.

Voith signed a purchase agreement to take over 70% of shares in electric motor manufacturer ELIN Motoren GmbH.

LSC Communications, Inc. announced that it received notification from the New York Stock Exchange that the NYSE has determined to commence proceedings to delist the Company's common stock from the NYSE and that trading in the Common Stock on the NYSE has been suspended, effective immediately.

A shooting has been reported Dec. 30 near the Georgia-Pacific paper mill in Pennington, Alabama.

Verso Corporation announced that it has filed definitive proxy materials with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") in connection the Company's upcoming 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting"), scheduled for January 31, 2020