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Battery Ventures, a global technology-focused investment firm, announced that it has acquired two companies: Forest2Market, Inc. a firm supplying data, analytics, supply chain expertise and strategic consulting services to the global forest products industry; and Fisher International, Inc. a firm supporting the pulp and paper industry with business intelligence and strategy consulting services.

Canadian billionaire Jim Pattison, whose conglomerate owns businesses including supermarkets, fisheries and billboards, offered to take lumber producer Canfor Corp. private for about C$981.6 million ($742 million). The stock surged in response.

Phoenix Paper, which runs a paper mill in west Kentucky, is expanding with a new facility that represents a $200 million investment.

Georgia-Pacific Corp. is taking preliminary steps toward a massive, 458,000-square-foot expansion of the 100-year-old Broadway Mill property.

WestRock officials say they want to sell the facility to a developer who will embrace the city's mixed use plan.

Kadant Black Clawson LLC, a subsidiary of Kadant Inc., announced the fabrication and sale of the 10,000th FibreWall screen cylinder.

As of Jan. 1, 2020, the Company will be known as UFP Industries, Inc. The Company will seek to ratify the name change at its April 22, 2020, shareholder meeting.

McGraw-Hill is continuing to expand its array of initiatives focused on lowering the cost of course materials and improving outcomes for students.

American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Donna Harman issued the following statement regarding the anti-circumvention petitions filed on August 2 by several U.S. manufacturers and the United Steelworkers with the U.S. Commerce Department and the U.S. International Trade Commission for uncoated freesheet paper in rolls from Australia, China, Indonesia, Brazil and Portugal.

The job openings were announced as the company is in the midst of a $115 million investment at the plant in Fox Crossing, part of a commitment that the company made as the recipient of a $28 million package of state tax incentives in late 2018 to keep the plant open.

With the deadline looming for the province's largest pulp and paper mill to close an integral part of its operations, the union representing thousands of forestry sector workers is renewing its push for the government to let the mill build a controversial new wastewater treatment facility.

A fire is out at the Middletown Essity mill after crews responded and worked on the roof.

Kimberly-Clark will support UNICEF Programs with a $7.2 Million donation through Huggies® 'No Baby Unhugged'

For forest products companies in the region, this represents a missing and critical potential resource of FSC-certified fiber.

Corenso Holdings America (CHA) is a leading U.S. manufacturer of uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) and high-performance cores used in the paper, packaging films, tape, and specialty industries.

Bemis, located in Clara (Ireland), Derry (Northern Ireland, UK), and Elsham (United Kingdom), will be merged with Nelipak, and the combined company will operate under the Nelipak Healthcare Packaging brand.

The changes are that Saugbrugs will not receive a reduction in CO2 compensation for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020.

The Company is planning to make the investment in either Ohio or Michigan, subject to a number of conditions, including environmental permitting and negotiations currently underway relative to government incentives and labor relations.

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Verso Corp. plans to add products and increase production at its mill in Jay where about 500 people work.

The United Steelworkers (USW) union joined with several domestic paper producers in filing a request with the U.S. Department of Commerce to address the circumvention of existing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on uncoated paper imports.

WestRock Company has announced plans to sell its property in Newberg, Oregon.

Chile's CMPC tissue paper subsidiary Softys announced on Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to buy Paraná, Brazil-based Sepac for a little over $300 million. The deal will create the largest company in this segment in Brazil.

Wisconsin's paper industry is alive and well, according to a new state report.

A $100,000 state grant announced Tuesday will pay for advanced manufacturing training for 25 employees at the Sappi paper mill in Cloquet.