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Smurfit Kappa has been named among the most important companies in Colombia for its contribution to society and development of the country.

Effective May 2, 2018, Solenis and BASF signed an agreement to combine BASF's paper and water chemicals business with Solenis to jointly create a customer-focused global specialty chemical company.

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) announced that 65.8 percent of paper consumed in the U.S. was recovered for recycling in 2017.

WestRock Co. CEO Steve Voorhees told investors that the company's $4.9 billion merger with KapStone Paper and Packaging Co. is still on track despite extra scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Boise Cascade Company announced an agreement to acquire assets of Norman Distribution, Inc., a distributor of engineered wood products (EWP), commodity lumber items, and specialty building materials located in the Medford, Oregon market.

LSC Communications and R.R. Donnelley & Son's Company announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for LSC Communications to acquire the Print Logistics component of RRD's Logistics business.

Packaging Corporation of America, one of the largest makers of containerboard and corrugated packaging products in the country, made its pledge at the university's annual Paper Days conference in April.

CN announced it will buy 350 centrebeam cars to serve growing demand from lumber producing customers across its North American network.

Mondi has agreed to buy a privately-owned industrial bags maker operating in Egypt for 23.7 million euros ($28.75 million) to expand deeper into the Middle East, the South African packaging group said.

Resolute Forest Products Inc. announced the renewal of the collective agreements at eight of its pulp and paper operations in Canada.

Amid a national outcry from newspaper publishers, Norpac announced Tuesday that the Longview paper mill will hire 50 new full- and part-time employees as tariffs on Canadian newsprint set in.

WestRock Co. plans to grow its operations in Lanett by expanding its building, adding new shipping docks, creating more office space and investing in new equipment. It will also build a 375,000-square-foot distribution center on a 30-acre site in Valley Industrial Park to support the Lanett facility.

USG Corp. on Tuesday said it agreed to open talks to sell itself to Germany's Gebr Knauf AG, a sale that could benefit Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., USG's largest shareholder.

No additional bids for the purchase of Appvion Inc. were submitted by Monday's deadline.

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Huhtamaki has sold its confectionary trademark portfolio to Highlander Partners, a US based investment firm.

Tetra Pak aims to launch a paper straw that is suitable for its portion-sized carton packages before the end of the year, as part of a broader programme to help address the issue of plastic straw waste.

Associated Kiln Driers Softwoods (AKD) and Carter Holt Harvey Wood products have finalised the sale of the Yarram sawmill in Victoria, Australia.

Huhtamaki has acquired the majority of Tailored Packaging, an Australian foodservice packaging distribution and wholesale group.

Resolute Forest Products Inc. announced major investments totaling $12,956,700 in its La Doré wood products facilities, located in the Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada.

The Georgia-Pacific paper mill in Augusta will be closing its doors.

A new survey released by FedEx Office, a leading provider of printing, packing and shipping services and a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., shows that consumers and small business owners find comfort and prefer tangible, printed materials, despite an increasingly digital and on-demand society.

UPM has decided to further increase the release liner base paper capacity at UPM Changshu mill in China.

UPM will rebuild paper machine 2 at its Nordland mill in Dörpen, Germany and convert it from fine paper to glassine paper production.