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Conifex Timber Inc. announced that it is temporarily curtailing sawmill operations at its Fort St. James, British Columbia, Canada, sawmill for three weeks commencing February 4, 2019, due primarily to continued high log costs and lumber market conditions.

Fire crews were mopping up a fire that early Jan. 31 destroyed a multimillion dollar pulp mill closely associated with Columbia Pulp.

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LSC Communications, Inc. has signed a multi-year agreement with award-winning publishing company H.O. Zimman, Inc. to produce six national sports magazine titles.

For the past several years, when transportation month comes around on our editorial calendar, I have been talking about driverless trucks being right around the corner. They still are, but the corner is closer.

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The Marcal Paper Mill was mostly destroyed Wednesday night as a massive blaze tore through the historic facility on the Passaic River in Elmwood Park.

Government regulation can be a blessing or a burden. In every case, it's the result of a public process. In contrast, says Domtar CEO John D. Williams, too many of today's extra-governmental, voluntary programs -- shadow regulations -- fall short of this process.

Greif, Inc. announced that it was awarded an A- score for environmental leadership by the non-profit organization CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project).

Smurfit Kappa continues to bring sustainable innovative solutions to the agricultural sector by launching its industry-leading AgroPaperTM.

While the Company is continuing to pursue a transaction to address its liquidity needs, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to consummate any sale, transaction, or refinancing on terms that are satisfactory to it, or at all.

Representatives of Resolute Forest Products are asking Queen's Park for help, as they battle with American producers for access to U.S. markets. Resolute says they have $100 million in duty deposits sitting in Washington, and there's still no agreement on softwood lumber.

Canfor Corporation announced it will be temporarily curtailing operations at three British Columbia mills due to log supply constraints, log costs and current market conditions.

Firefighters from about 15 communities were working late into Tuesday night at the Huhtamaki paper products facility on the Waterville-Fairfield line, where a large fire was burning in the paper machines below the roof, according to Waterville fire Chief Shawn Esler.

Andritz started up the modernized BM3 board machine successfully in Arnsberg, Germany, for R.D.M. Arnsberg GmbH at the beginning of January 2019 after a delivery time of just eight months.

In the words of the JCPenney department store founder James Cash Penney, "Growth is never by mere chance: it is the result of forces working together."

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) has selected Lindsay Murphy as its Executive Director, Strategic Communications.

An issue with Finch Paper's pulp digester is still under investigation by the state Department of Environmental Conservation after the digester broke down Sunday.

In 2011, Metsähallitus (a Finnish state enterprise, which administers state-owned land) filed a claim for damages against UPM and two other Finnish forest companies.

Eka Tjipta Widjaja, who became a coconut and palm-oil trader at the age of 15 before building a multi-billion dollar empire with businesses spanning paper and pulp to financial services, has died.

Operations stopped in November 2017 after a fire destroyed parts of the sawmill.

Over the next three years, J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI) is forecasting 7500 full time hires as well as over 2500 student hires across the company's diverse operations in Canada and the U.S.

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Prinzhorn Holding GmbH, through its subsidiary, Forstverwaltung Neuhaus GmbH, will take over the entire assets and employees of the Neuhaus-Alpl forestry administration.