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Greif, Inc. announced the appointment of Bala V. Sathyanarayanan as Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer.

Stora Enso launches a new sustainable RFID tag technology called ECO™ by Stora Enso, designed for intelligent packaging functionalities in supply chain, retail and e-commerce applications.

DS Smith has been awarded the title of UK Packaging Company of the Year at the UK Packaging Awards.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö is increasing parchment paper production capacity and is inaugurating a new production line in Saint-Séverin in France.

It takes more than 30 tractor-trailer loads of wood a day to feed Nova Scotia Power's Port Hawkesbury biomass plant when it's running.

As hard as it is to get innovation right, a subject to which we alluded last week, pulling the plug on a bad project is even harder. If you read the management books, they will often quote someone like Winston Churchill, Vince Lombardi or Teddy Roosevelt, with an admonishment to never, ever, give up. Sometimes you need to give up. It is called throwing good money after bad...

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As a part of its Industry 4.0 transformation, Fibria's selection of FITNIR's technology was based on the importance of accurate and relevant data in moving towards a new era in process control where online data availability is essential.

Company Receives 12 Awards at Annual Paperboard Packaging Competition, Including Inaugural Digital Application of the Year Award.

The Orchids Paper Mill suffered two fires in less than 30 hours, in what fire officials are calling "preventable" fires.

International Paper has instructed contractors and suppliers this week to stop work on multiple capital projects at its mills, according to reliable sources.

Solaris Paper announced a major capital project this week that will see the company add eight production lines and employ 180 workers in Southern California.

Irving Pulp and Paper Ltd. has been hit with one of largest penalties ever imposed in Canada for an environmental violation.

Smurfit Kappa has been awarded the gold Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) rating by EcoVadis, a leading evaluator of global supply chains, for the fifth successive year.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation has been recognized with two prominent awards for its efforts to improve energy efficiency and reduce its carbon footprint.

A Detroit law firm filed a federal class action lawsuit alleging 3M and Georgia-Pacific are responsible for contaminating Parchment's municipal drinking water.

Greif, Inc. announced the appointment of Bala V. Sathyanarayanan as Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer.

Nearly 50 Johnsonburg Area High School juniors learned about a variety of career opportunities at one of the world's most technologically advanced paper mills

WestRock Company announced that it has completed the acquisition of KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation./p>

Pixelle Specialty Solutions™ is headquartered in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania and is a leading manufacturer and supplier of specialty paper and engineered products with manufacturing facilities in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Tolko Industries (U.S.) Ltd. and Southeastern Timber Products (STP) are pleased to announce a 50-50 joint-venture partnership in a lumber mill in Ackerman, Mississippi.

ND Paper LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited, today completed its acquisition of the Fairmont, West Virginia recycled pulp mill from Resolute Forest Products Inc., as announced in August.

A local diaper-making plant that employs 145 people and is the ninth-largest taxpayer in Waco has announced it will shutter its plant on Texas Central Parkway as a cost-cutting move, probably by June of next year.

As you might have guessed, November is Innovation and Strategy month at Paperitalo Publications. I thought would we would start out talking about lost innovations. There are many clever innovations with industrial application from the past that have been lost to the present era...

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