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Brazil's pulp and paper producer Suzano Papel e Celulose SA said the United States Federal Trade Commission gave the company antitrust clearance to acquire rival Fibria Celulose SA, according to a securities filing on Friday.

Green Bay Packaging Inc. announced the acquisition of Wisconsin Packaging Corp., a corrugated sheet plant in Fort Atkinson, WI. Wisconsin Packaging Corp. was founded in 1986 and will operate as part of Green Bay Packaging Inc. The acquisition is effective May 31, 2018.

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A trial version of a renewable fiber based ready meal packaging will be tested with consumers in the UK starting end May.

Since 2014, a unique Domtar internship program has helped immigrants find work and make connections in Aneby, Sweden. The program also helps people who are reentering the workforce after a long gap.

Purchasing, or procurement, is one of the least efficient functions in our businesses. It is also the environment where much corruption occurs (we talk about this nearly every August in "Pulp Rats" month). Procurement involves the exchange of goods and services for money. Everyone gets funny around money. I am convinced that so-called "arm's length" negotiations often waste money and result in the acquisition of something other than what the procuring party wanted. I am equally convinced that negotiated pricing, an implication that the effort is more open, wastes money, too. Then there is corruption, where sellers buy the business...

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"After studying in detail the report put together by the Koalisi Anti Mafia Hutan (KAMH), we are unsure of what wrongdoing they are alleging APP have committed."

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. ("the Company") has announced that, at a meeting of the Board of Directors held today, the Company resolved to reorganize the production structure for its paper business as follows.

Lars Lundin has been appointed Senior Vice President Paper and will take up his new role no later than the first of December 2018. He succeeds Nils Ringborg, who will remain part of Group management as advisor to the CEO.

Tetra Pak announces that its new tubular heat exchanger with P2P (Product to Product) technology now has 3-A certification.​​

Antalis has signed an agreement to acquire IGEPA's Papers distribution business in Sweden and Norway; the operation should close in the course of June.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS) has received an order to provide a steam turbine power generation system for a pulp and paper mill in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Palm Paper Ltd., which operates the world's largest paper mill for newsprint from its King's Lynn site in the UK, was supplied with steam by two natural gas-fired fire-tube boilers.

Details have been released on the death of a sawmill employee killed Friday in Chapleau.

The family of a man still on life support following the Norske Skog workplace accident say he is a fighter.

A fire in a century-old box paper mill in Beloit Monday night resulted in 33 firefighting units responding to the blaze, with nobody hurt in the fire.

ISLA® Duo cupstock is Kotkamills' solution to an ever-growing problem. It does not contain any plastics or waxes that are harmful for the environment or health.

Brazilian pulp and paper producer Suzano shut operations throughout Brazil over the weekend in response to an ongoing strike by truck drivers over diesel fuel prices, a company spokesman said Tuesday.

FITNIR Analyzers Inc. is thrilled to announce the latest addition to its product suite, FITNIR MC. Utilizing NIR spectroscopy, FITNIR MC delivers rapid, online moisture content measurements.

Mercer International says it intends to voluntarily de-list from the Toronto Stock Exchange on June 11, about three months after it lost a six-year-old NAFTA battle with the Canadian government.

Stora Enso has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).

Crecia-Kasuga, a joint venture for household paper products established by Nippon Paper Crecia, a Nippon Paper Group company, and Kasuga Paper Industry completed the construction of a new production facility for household paper products on the premises of Fuji Mill of Nippon Paper Industries as scheduled.