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Mondi has completed the acquisition of National Company for Paper Products and Import & Export S.A.E ("NPP"), for a total consideration of EGP 510 million (Euro 24 million) on a debt and cash free-basis.

A settlement has been reached regarding some of the payments associated with Fox River PCB cleanup.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö has launched HighFlow Wind Energy, its latest reinforcement fabric for wind turbine blade manufacturing.

Paper and packaging company Smurfit Kappa confirmed today that it had completed a €460m (£407m) takeover of Dutch paper and recycling business Reparenco.

Scheufelen restars its mill in Lenningen, Germany. Thanks to a strong partnership of investors Green Growth Fund 2 / Wermuth Asset Management, Nordia Invest and Scheufelen Equity Partners, the newly established Scheufelen GmbH will initiate operations with staff of 100 on July 2nd, 2018. Scheufelen had declared insolvency end of January 2018.

Mr. Ken Liu has been appointed as an executive director and Deputy Chairman of Nine Dragons Paper.

SCA has employed Magnus Kangas as new Mill Manager of Ortviken paper mill in Sundsvall. He will take on his new postion as of January 1, 2019.

Crown Holdings, Inc. announced that Robert H. Bourque, Jr., has been selected to become President of its Transit Packaging Division effective August 1, 2018.

Toscotec fired up other two AHEAD-2.0L PRODERGY tissue machines at APP's OKI mill, in South Sumatra, Indonesia.

OMNOVA Solutions to close its production facility in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

ND Paper LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nine Dragons Paper Ltd., completed on Friday its acquisition of Catalyst Paper Corp.'s mills in Rumford and Biron, Wisc.

About 1,200 Weyerhaeuser Co. employees in Washington and Oregon voted overwhelmingly Thursday to give the regional woodworkers union strike authority, paving the way for a work stoppage if negotiators continue to disagree on terms of a new labor contract.

Valmet has received an order for a Valmet Pulp Analyzer (Valmet MAP) from UPM in China. The Valmet MAP with freeness module and optional Fiber Image module will be installed with six sampling devices for UPM's PM 2 in Changshu.

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Eugene Springfield Fire crews responded to a fire at International Paper in Springfield Tuesday morning around 7:50 a.m.

Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. and Borregaard ASA announced LignoTech Florida, owned 45 percent by RYAM and 55 percent by BRG, officially begun operations at the new lignin plant in Fernandina Beach. The plant has production capacity of 100,000 dry metric tons of lignin with the option of a second phase that can later expand production by an additional 50,000 dry metric tons.

Stora Enso has started a feasibility study and an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a possible investment in Oulu. The feasibility study and the EIA evaluate a potential conversion of the Oulu paper mill into packaging board production. The feasibility study is expected to be concluded by the end of 2018, and the EIA process is expected to take a minimum of 6 months.

Domtar Corporation released its 2018 Sustainability Update, highlighting the company's ongoing efforts to take a longer-term view of creating and preserving value for shareholders, customers, employees and communities. In an update to its 2017 report, Domtar announced that the company has met or exceeded three of the company's six 2020 sustainability goals this year.

Irving Tissue installs Valmet IQ Fiber Measurement Sensor on tissue machine #1 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

WestRock Company announced the sale of its Cabin Bluff property to The Nature Conservancy. Consisting of 11,172 acres of upland longleaf forests, marshes, forested hammocks and wildlife, the property is positioned across the intracoastal waterway from Cumberland Island National Seashore in Georgia.