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Essity reported a steeper-than-expected 12 percent drop in core profit as rising pulp and energy costs outweighed higher selling prices and cost savings, sending its shares lower.

Dozens of workers will lose their jobs when a Brattleboro Neenah Paper facility closes.

Our modern society is one that increasingly relies on technology for everyday life, work and study, yet the desire and benefits of paper and wood-based products remains consistent.

The forest product industry directly employs approximately 950,000 men and women and supports more than twice that many derivative jobs in supplier industries and local communities. While the industry lost jobs during the Great Recession, our manufacturers have been adding jobs in recent years as the economy expands.

Did you know that paper and wood products manufacturers are the leading producers and users of carbon-friendly bioenergy of any industrial sector?

Premier Doug Ford and Jeff Yurek, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, announced that Resolute Forest Products will be investing $40 million into Ontario's Northwestern operations, and an additional $13.5 million into maintenance and job creation at the Thunder Bay pulp and paper mill.

When I think back over my five decades in industry, one stands out when the subject of quality comes up. It is the 1970s. The 1970s were the age of shabby. I don't care what kind of product it was, retail or industrial, I would suggest the 1970s were the low point of quality, at least in the United States. So, what changed?

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A man who helped persuade the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. to grant a bogus solid-waste conversion firm called Green Box $95,000 for training has agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud conspiracy charges.

Smurfit Kappa has taken the next step forward in its sustainability journey by rolling out an ambitious new set of goals.

Kimberly Clark CEO Thomas Falk has announced he is to step down as the company reports a fall in its full-year adjusted operating profit due to a rise in commodity costs such as plastic, pulp and oil.

Smurfit Kappa has marked the beginning of the rebuild of a recovery boiler with a ground-breaking ceremony at its Nettingsdorf Paper Mill in Austria.

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. has completed constructing a demonstration plant at Fuji Mill in Japan for new functional materials, "MinerPa®" which is a hybrid material composed of wood pulp and particulate minerals using our own unique pulp-modification technologies, as scheduled.

Hong Kong's biggest paper maker is opening a new HK$5.1-billion production facility in Malaysia, as it looks to build on its growing presence in Southeast Asia and meet China's increasing demand for paper.

On Sunday 14. October 2018 at around 10:00 a fire broke out in the main fibre spinning area at Kelheim Fibres GmbH.

During National Forest Products Week, we underscore the importance of free and fair trade to our industry.

Andritz has received an order from Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A. to supply energy-efficient and environmentally friendly pulp production technologies and key process equipment for modernization and extension of the Arauco pulp mill in Horcones, Arauco, Chile.

After a series of phased capital investments, ND Paper expects the Mill will restart in the first quarter of 2019 and ultimately produce 275,000 admt annually of unbleached kraft pulp.

Savannah Fire responded to a blaze at International Paper on Monday.

A worker who fatally injured a colleague at a Flintshire paper mill, initially thought he ran over a bundle of paper, an inquest has heard.

Margareta Lehmann, President of Health and Medical Solutions and a member of Essity's Executive Management Team, is stepping down from her position due to retirement.

This month, Pratt Industries is celebrating three years of making paper at its $260 million recycled paper mill in Valparaiso.

This year, AstenJohnson published a complete update to the hard-bound reference book Paper Machine Clothing.

Kleenex maker Kimberly-Clark says it will re-brand its "Mansize" tissues after consumers complained the name was sexist.

The Northern Pulp mill has responded to a leak from one of their effluent pipes, with the company saying they took "immediate action" to stop the leak.