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A dozen units and 60 firefighters battled smoke and flames at Pratt Industry Paper Mill.

Crews are responding to a possible fire Aug. 19 in Roaring Spring at the Appvion paper mill, officials confirmed.

The FTSE4Good indices are used by a wide variety of market participants to create and assess responsible investment funds and other products.

For filmmaker David Craig, a new documentary depicting the fraught emotions over the future of a rural Nova Scotia pulp mill is not solely a local story.

Quad recently announced plans to close its Shakopee, Minn., retail advertising insert printing facility on or about Sept. 14, impacting approximately 140 employees. Work performed there will be consolidated into other Quad locations.

ANDRITZ has acquired the Swedish company KEMPULP, a specialist provider of process technologies for the chemical pulping industry.

Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, is one of the founding members of Alliance Gobelet Carton that was founded in the spring to organise a pilot for the collection and recycling of paperboard cups in France. The first collections with partnering restaurants will start soon.

French Paper, based in Michigan, manufactures premium custom paper for graphic arts, printing, packaging, writing, text, cover, specialty, and gift applications.

At the close of the 2019 annual meeting of the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM) in Northern Saskatchewan, Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) announced its support for the Ministers' commitment to work together to promote Canadian forestry and forest products to the country and the world.

The paper and wood products industry's efforts to promote sustainable forest management, do more with less in the manufacturing process and recover products for recycling form the foundation of our contributions to the circular economy.

Universal Forest Products, Inc. announced that one of its affiliates has acquired the operating assets of Northwest Painting, Inc.

The former Resolute pulp and paper mill in Fort Frances, Ont., could produce cannabis or even specialty packaging materials, according to the site's new owner.

Quinte West Fire Chief John Whelan says ongoing fires at Trenton's Norampac paper mill are dangerous and he is contemplating calling the Ministry of Labour.

A Palm Paper spokeswoman declined to comment on the matter.

Georgia-Pacific's plan to expand its operating footprint in Green Bay has been put on hold.

In our mill, all the workers wear uniforms and have badges, that is a picture of themselves on a piece of plastic that has their name on it. I found one of these one day and tried to eat it. Not very good and it gave me a tremendous stomachache. Anyway, there is this large room where parts and supplies are kept. Most of the time, an employee is stationed at the door, and this employee retrieves materials for other employees that ask for them. This employee usually eats their lunch there, so the place is guarded all the time. This happens on all three shifts.

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The Kruger company has signed a new lease with the National Capital Commission to keep running its paper mill in downtown Gatineau, Que., and a new public park is part of the deal.

Capital equipment investment made at the Baldwinsville, NY facility for North American growth.

The federal government is not committing to an environmental assessment of Northern Pulp's plans to pump treated effluent from their plant into the Northumberland Strait.

An education group seeking to increase access to college textbooks and research materials on Wednesday asked the U.S. government to block the proposed merger of textbook publishers McGraw-Hill Education Inc and Cengage Learning Holdings II Inc.

The recently purchased Fort Frances mill cannot be restarted for the purpose of manufacturing pulp or paper, according to a recently uncovered document.

On Tuesday, hundreds of workers and executives gathered at the Old Town pulp mill to formally recognize the site's reopening after it closed for more than 3 1/2 years.

Conifex Timber Inc. announced that it is indefinitely curtailing operations at its El Dorado sawmill. The curtailment is planned to be phased-in over the next 60 days.