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Smurfit Kappa is installing a revolutionary new industrial-scale HP PageWide C500 digital press for corrugated printing which will provide greater customisation and flexibility for customers.

A group of former DuPont employees is suing Chemours Co. for fraud, claiming the company tricked them into accepting a cheaper severance than it later offered other employees.

As I lambasted company safety records last week, some of you may have been feeling a bit smug. Not to worry, it is your turn this week...

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Björn Wahlroos was re-elected as Chairman, and Berndt Brunow as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of UPM-Kymmene Corporation at the Board of Directors' constitutive meeting that took place following the Annual General Meeting.

The wood and wood-related products manufacturer will create approximately 120 jobs at its new plant in Orangeburg County, SC over the next several years.

Twin Rivers Paper Company LLC announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the paper mill located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas owned by Mondi Group.

Tens of thousands of dollars worth of copper wire was stolen from an International Paper facility in late March, according to a police report.

Pratt is "officially turning dirt" in their 110-acre site in the West Central Ohio Industrial Center, on the way to constructing the paper mill that will call Wapakoneta home.

Leena Lie (49), M.Sc. (Economics) has been appointed Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications and a member of the Global Executive Team at Huhtamaki latest as of October 1, 2018.

Kristina Enander, presently manager of SCA's Ortviken paper mill, has been appointed new Business Area President Pulp.

UPM Raflatac announced that it has appointed Diddier Solano as its new Area Sales Director for Mexico and Central America.

Rengo Co., Ltd. announced that its consolidated subsidiary Asahi Shiko Co., Ltd. has completed construction of a corrugator plant building, extension of an office warehouse building, and renovation of the corrugator at its head office plant in Japan.

In a March 20 order, Judge Jon Tigar directed plaintiff Resolute Forest Products Inc. to consolidate its 190-page first amended complaint against Greenpeace International, which filed a motion to dismiss the complaint, to no more than 80 pages.

Quad/Graphics announced the production of ELLE's first-ever personalized cover for select subscribers using Quad's data-driven technology. 50,000 covers feature a "handwritten" note addressed to the subscriber, from the April cover star Kim Kardashian West.

A free press isn't free, but it shouldn't be artificially expensive.

LSC Communications has acquired TriLiteral LLC, a full-service logistics provider specializing in the distribution of books for University Presses and Academic Publishers.

A California federal jury was right to hold Kimberly-Clark Corp. and its spinoff Halyard Health Inc. responsible for misleading buyers about the impermeability of the companies' MicroCool surgical gowns, but awarded unconstitutionally high punitive damages, a judge said Friday in slashing the original $450 million award to just over $20 million.

Takashi Sugiyama, President, Graphic Packaging International Pacific Rim, has elected to retire on July 31, 2018 after 15 years of dedicated service with the Company.

AkzoNobel announced the sale of 100% of its Specialty Chemicals business to The Carlyle Group and GIC for an enterprise value of €10.1 billion.

Smurfit Kappa's expansion ambitions in the US are coming under increasing scrutiny by investors amid mounting speculation the Dublin-based company acted as a rival suitor to a US-based packaging firm, WestRock, in its successful $3.5bn (€2.8bn) bid for KapStone Paper.

Company on track to emerge from Chapter 11 in Late Q2

Fire crews were called early Friday, 30 March, to a Rothschild paper mill after a forklift caught fire.

Employees of the Florence, Alabama Sonoco Products Co. facility have been notified the plant will close by the end of May, officials said.