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Under authority of the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation (21CFR.176.260) use of pulp from reclaimed fiber is allowed for food packaging.

Kimberly-Clark announced its 2018 Bright Futures Scholarship Program has awarded $1.2 million in college scholarships to 60 children of Kimberly-Clark employees in 17 U.S. states.

On Monday, the Helsinki Court of Appeal rendered its judgment in a case in which Metsähallitus claims damages from Metsäliitto Cooperative, Stora Enso Oyj and UPM-Kymmene Corporation based on their conduct on the wood market in 1997-2004. In its judgment, the Court of Appeal rejected the claims made by Metsähallitus and ordered Metsähallitus to compensate the defendants' legal costs.

The Austrian, Canadian, UK and Uruguayan national forest certification systems have successfully achieved PEFC re-endorsement, confirming they continue to meet our globally recognized Sustainability Benchmarks.

Andritz has received an order from Södra to supply a bio-methanol cleaning and purification plant for Södra's pulp mill in Mönsterås, Sweden. Start-up of the plant is scheduled for the 3Q 2019.

Essity Operations Wausau LLC, which owns a paper mill at 700 Columbia Ave. in Middletown, is eliminating 60 positions at the facility. The layoffs are expected to be permanent, according to a notice filed with the state of Ohio.

The energy company St1 and the forest products company SCA have formed a partnership to develop large-scale production of renewable fuels from tall oil. The planned production site will be St1's refinery in Gothenburg.

Valmet and Georgia-Pacific have entered into a licensing agreement covering the eTAD(TM) tissue making technology. Under the license agreement, Valmet will market, manufacture and install Advantage eTAD machines for tissue customers outside North America.

Metsä Group has established a new innovation company, Metsä Spring Ltd. The company will, together with partner organisations, invest in new endeavours with the target to identify and develop new business opportunities in sustainable forest-based bioeconomy and circular economy.

Conifex Timber Inc. has reached an agreement with BW SLC Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC and the minority shareholders of Caddo River Forest Products, LLC to purchase all of the outstanding membership interests of Suwannee Lumber Holding Company, LLC, Suwannee Timber Management, LLC and Caddo River Forest Products, LLC (collectively, the "BW Group").

Smurfit Kappa Group PLC on Wednesday reiterated its rejection of a 8.9 billion euro ($10.6 billion) takeover approach from International Paper Co. IP, after regulators set a deadline for a formal bid.

I have cautioned the readers of this column many times not to get carried away with the energy trend du jour. It can be fatal to your enterprise. At the same time, I have cautioned you to watch for politically driven energy initiatives from governments. Being in industry for all the time that energy shortages and costs have been in the forefront, I have seen some really crazy expenditures, caused by companies and managers caught up in the hysteria of the day. We certainly need reliable energy sources to keep our enterprises operating in the present, but we must be careful in such times to do the best we can to perceive what may actually happen in the long run...

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Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) is disappointed by the statement released by Greenpeace. Greenpeace has been an integral partner in our sustainability journey since 2013, and their engagement and support has resulted in much progress in the fight against deforestation in Indonesia.

A former Kimberly-Clark employee accused of stealing more than $1.7 million from the company pleaded guilty in federal court to a related wire fraud charge Monday.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. Senate, led by Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Angus King (I-Maine), have introduced a bill that would delay dumping tariffs and countervailing duties currently being applied to imports of Canadian uncoated groundwood (UGW), or newsprint, being used primarily by newspaper, book, directory and circular printers, as well as other publishers and printers

Chung Hwa Pulp has selected Veolia Water Technologies' HPD® evaporator technology to upgrade its Hualien Mill in Taiwan.

Gustaf Nygren has been employed as new Manager of SCA Maintenance. Gustaf comes to SCA from Quant Service Sweden AB, where he has held the position of VP Operations Manager, Scandinavia.

Stora Enso is launching its wood-based biocomposites, DuraSense™ by Stora Enso.

Indonesia's Asia Pacific Resources Group, known as April Group, entered exclusive talks to acquire Brazilian pulpmaker Lwarcel Celulose Ltda, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.

Greenpeace has ended a five-year truce with one of the world's largest paper companies, accusing it of cutting down tropical forests in Indonesia during the entire time the two were cooperating on conservation.

CatchMark Timber Trust, Inc. (CTT) announced an agreement to acquire 1.1 million acres of prime East Texas timberlands for approximately $1.39 billion in a joint venture with a consortium of institutional investors, including BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group, Highland Capital Management, Medley Management Inc., and a major Canadian institutional investor.

Authorities are investigating the death of a worker at the Sappi paper and pulp mill in Cloquet on Tuesday.

International Paper will not make a hostile bid for Irish rival Smurfit Kappa, it said on Wednesday after being given until June 6 to make a binding offer.