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WestRock Company has provided updated information on the impact of Hurricane Michael on its containerboard and pulp mill located in Panama City, Florida.

A machine on the second floor at WestRock in Aurora, ignited a blaze Wednesday morning. One person was injured.

Two companies have submitted bids for Carthage Specialty Paperboard in time for a private auction.

A year ago, the Batista brothers agreed to sell Eldorado Brasil Celulose to Paper Excellence Group, a Netherlands-based company owned by Jackson Widjaja, the grandson of Indonesian mogul Eka Widjaja.

National Forest Products Week (NFPW) is right around the corner, and we couldn't be more excited to get the party started!

Enviva Partners, LP reported that its facilities incurred only limited damage from Hurricane Michael.

Smurfit Kappa's innovative new website has won a 2018 Sitecore Experience Award for its outstanding user experience.

Paper Excellence Canada sees forestry as a sunrise industry, rather than one that is on the decline, according to an official with the company.

Brazilian antitrust regulators approved a tie-up between Fibria Celulose SA and Suzano Papel e Celulose SA, paving the way for the creation of the world's biggest pulp producer.

Embattled businessman Ronald Van Den Heuvel was convicted Friday in a second fraud case in federal court.

The Quebec workers' compensation board is investigating the death, which occurred at the White Birch paper mill.

Toscotec will provide a complete plant with two AHEAD-2.0L tissue machines on a full turnkey basis to Sofidel America's integrated plant (paper mill and converting) in Inola, Oklahoma, the second greenfield investment of the Group in the United States.

Mondi is proceeding with the investment in a new 300,000 tonne per year kraft top white machine at Ruzomberok, Slovakia, with start-up expected toward the end of 2020.

Boise Cascade Company announced an agreement to acquire Arling Lumber, Inc., headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter.

Unifor members at three B.C. paper mills are welcoming news that a major paper manufacturer has stepped in to purchase the troubled Catalyst Paper.

Rayonier Advanced Materials said this week it will create 79 positions at its Downtown headquarters by 2022, following its acquisition in late 2017 of Canadian forest products company Tembec.

WestRock Company has provided an initial update following the landfall of Hurricane Michael and its impact on the company's containerboard and pulp mill located in Panama City, Florida.

Centerbridge Partners LP and a group comprised of PAI Partners and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners are in the running to make final bids for Kimberly-Clark Corp.'s European tissue unit, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Canfor has confirmed the explosion has closed both Northwood and Prince George Pulp Mills.

All of a sudden, plastic contamination is in the news. Restaurants in our area, for instance, have started posting signs concerning plastic straws with the claim that the world uses 500 million plastic straws per day. I find that number a bit incredulous, for it means that 1 in 16 of us, including newborn infants, use a plastic straw each day. There has also been a video on LinkedIn of a woman paddling up to a pile of plastic near the water's edge somewhere. It looks awful, but the video fails to comment on her being on a plastic surfboard, an item that used to be made of wood. I am, by the way, in favor of getting rid of as much plastic as we can (paperboard milk cartons and paper grocery sacks, anyone?). But what does all of this have to do with Quality Month at Paperitalo Publications. Just this...

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Expera Specialty Solutions, LLC announced that Ahlstrom‐Munksjö has completed the acquisition of U.S. specialty paper producer Expera for an enterprise value of USD 615 million (EUR 526 million) on a cash and debt free basis.

ND Paper LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Ltd., said Wednesday it has a definitive asset purchase agreement to buy the Old Town property from OTM Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of CVG Inc.

BillerudKorsnäs announced that Helene Biström is appointed as Senior Vice President for Paper, one of the company's three divisions in the new organisation that came into effect on the 1st of October.