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Two companies have been fined a total of £700,000 after a contract worker was fatally crushed by a shovel loader at a Welsh paper mill.

Indonesian plantation companies fined for burning huge areas of land since 2009 have failed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties meant to hold them accountable for actions that took a devastating environmental and human toll.

Fabian Langenskiöld has been appointed as new Executive Vice President Sales at Arctic Paper S.A.

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation announced it has entered into an accelerated share repurchase (ASR) agreement with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC to repurchase $400 million of LP's common stock.

Of course, it is hard to say, but I will say this: "I would be leasing all my transportation equipment if I were you, and, further, I would be signing leases with relatively painless exit clauses."

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Valmet has received an order for a new wood handling line from Metsä Group's Joutseno pulp mill.

Valmet has been selected to deliver the key process technology for a new cooking, fiberline and recausticizing plant, as well as a new lime kiln, at Naini Papers' mill in India.

UPM collaborates with leading research organizations and small to medium sized companies in order to create a new ecosystem and novel wood-based innovations for the biomedical sector.

WestRock Company announced Robert (Bob) Feeser, president of Consumer Packaging, will retire from the company, effective April 30, 2019 and that Patrick (Pat) Lindner has been appointed the new president of Consumer Packaging.

Universal Forest Products, Inc. announced that one of its affiliates has signed an agreement to purchase the operating assets of Wolverine Wood Products, Inc.

WestRock Company announced Robert (Bob) Feeser, president of Consumer Packaging, will retire from the company, effective April 30, 2019 and that Patrick (Pat) Lindner has been appointed the new president of Consumer Packaging.

Finch Paper has gotten more efficient in the last few years and plans to use its profits to make many capital upgrades in 2019.

A paper mill worker died after "suffering burn injuries" at a paper mill in Kalurghat BSCIC industrial area of the port city early Feb. 16, police said.

Seven people were killed in a gas poisoning case at a paper mill in south China's Guangdong Province Friday night, local authorities said Saturday.

A three-alarm fire has been contained Thursday evening in a Georgia-Pacific warehouse in San Leandro, Alameda County Fire Department officials said.

Valmet will supply a grade conversion rebuild with automation solutions for Shangrao City Lulin Paper Co., Ltd. in Shangrao, China.

American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Donna Harman thanked Congress for reaffirming that federal regulatory policy should reflect the carbon neutrality of forest-based renewable biomass.

Smurfit Kappa Europe, part of London-listed Smurfit Kappa Group, said on Friday that it is seeking approval from Bulgaria's anti-trust authority to acquire Lovech-based peer Vitavel.

Thursday February 14, His Majesty the King Carl XVI Gustaf inaugurated SCA's pulp mill Östrand in Timrå. The expansion of the mill is one of Sweden's largest industrial investments ever.

Fast action by staff at a Hinckley packaging company helped prevent a major blaze Thursday evening.

Keweenaw Land Association, Limited appoints Claudio Nicoletta as CFO, effective February 11, 2019.

Bernd Eikens has been appointed Executive Vice President responsible for UPM Biorefining as of 1 March 2019.

Sonoco announced Wednesday that Harris E. DeLoach Jr. will retire as a director and as executive chairman of the company in April.