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Metsä Group's next-generation bioproduct mill in Äänekoski, Finland, reached its nominal capacity in August 2018, according to plan.

KP Tissue Inc. and Kruger Products L.P. announced its plan for a capital investment of $575 million in the Brompton area of Sherbrooke, Québec, to build a new, state-of-the-art tissue plant featuring Canada's largest and most modern through-air-dry (TAD) machine.

Every August, starting back in 2015, we have focused on corruption we have seen or heard about in the industry in the past year. This has become the most popular month of the year for original Nip Impressions columns. As usual, these stories will be told by Fos, a pulp rat. It is my privilege to put Fos' stories in print for you. We continue with Chapter 18...

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Mercer International Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Santanol Group, which owns and leases approximately 2,500 hectares of existing Indian sandalwood plantations and a processing and extraction plant in North West Australia.

Kimberly-Clark Corp. is increasing its prices and changing package counts in the U.S. and Canada for several brands, including Cottonelle bathroom tissue and Huggies diapers.

Cenveo Inc said in court papers it is poised to emerge from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy it launched in February with much of its debt canceled after creditors overwhelmingly backed an amended reorganization plan.

Gov. Matt Bevin today announced Global Win Wickliffe LLC, a Chinese-owned paper products manufacturer, will reopen the former Verso Corp. mill in west Kentucky's Ballard County with a $150 million investment expected to create 500 full-time jobs.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company announced that Alan ("Al") R. Nichols, Executive Vice President of Graphic Packaging International's Mills Division, has elected to retire on September 15, 2018 after 29 years of dedicated service with the Company.

A small group of employees at Columbia Pulp in Pomeroy recently huddled around the base of a conveyor belt that transports wheat straw to a chest where it is mixed with water and chemicals.

Smurfit Kappa has worked with an artist on two eye-catching and creative installations in the Netherlands and Scotland.

Stora Enso will broaden its biocomposites raw material base at the Hylte Mill, Sweden to provide more choice in technical properties and selection of fibres.

The liquidating plan of bankrupt specialty paper maker Appvion Inc. won court approval Tuesday in Delaware after receiving overwhelming support from creditors impacted by the plan.

Smurfit Kappa chief executive Tony Smurfit has been chosen as The Irish Times Business Person of the Month for July, an award run in association with KPMG.

Valmet has been chosen as a supplier by Ahlstrom-Munksjö for the upgrade of the recovery boiler and surrounding systems in the Billingsfors mill in Sweden.

Marc Dube died Thursday following a brief battle with cancer. He was 59. Dube was part of the effort that saw that Stern Partners-led Pacific West Commercial Corp. purchase the former NewPage mill in Point Tupper in 2012 and he then stayed on to serve as its development manager.

Domtar Corporation announced leadership transitions for two fluff pulp producing mills, in Plymouth, North Carolina and Ashdown, Arkansas.

Central National Gottesman Inc. (CNG), which owns a range of sales and distribution businesses in the global pulp, paper, tissue, packaging, plywood and metals industries, announced that its Lindenmeyr Munroe division has acquired the business of Texas-based Olmsted-Kirk Paper Company, expanding its reach into the Southwestern United States.

A small group of employees at Columbia Pulp in Pomeroy recently huddled around the base of a conveyor belt that transports wheat straw to a chest where it is mixed with water and chemicals.

An Illinois packaging and paper company has announced that it will hand over unspecified information as part of the U.S. Department of Justice's second request for information on a $4.9 billion buyout by WestRock Co., a deal expected to boost the combined company's product portfolio and extend its geographic reach.

Former Kimberly-Clark employee Daniel Kersten will spend three years in prison for his role in a scheme to steal more than $1.7 million from the company.

A Chinese company's announcement two years ago that it would spend more than $1-billion and hire hundreds of workers for a paper mill on the outskirts of this rural college town was seen as a much-needed shot in the arm for the region's economy.

Every August, starting back in 2015, we have focused on corruption we have seen or heard about in the industry in the past year. This has become the most popular month of the year for original Nip Impressions columns. As usual, these stories will be told by Fos, a pulp rat. It is my privilege to put Fos' stories in print for you. We continue with Chapter 17...

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