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Valmet will supply a linerboard production line with a wide automation package for WestRock Company at its mill in Florence, South Carolina, United States.

A Quad Graphics plant in West Allis was temporarily evacuated Tuesday morning after officials there received a bomb threat, police confirmed.

The parties did not come to an agreement regarding the terms of a joint bid for Norske Skog.

As part of a settlement entered into by Verso with two Canadian producers of supercalendered papers, Verso has requested that the U.S. Department of Commerce revoke its order imposing duties on supercalendered papers made by those Canadian producers and imported into the U.S.

A tax break package designed to Kimberly-Clark from eliminating 600 jobs in northeast Wisconsin appears to be dead in the state Legislature.

Valmet will supply two more containerboard production lines with related automation systems for Nine Dragons Industries Co., Ltd., China.

Tolko Industries Ltd. says it will build a new energy plant at its lumber mill in High Level , Alberta, Canada.

American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Donna Harman issued a statement in strong support of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

DS Smith Recycling has said it could recycle up to two-and-a-half billion disposable coffee cups at its Kemsley mill annually if there was a much improved national collection infrastructure.

Unifor is calling on the federal government to intervene immediately to stop new anti-dumping duties imposed by the U.S. on pulp and paper mills in Newfoundland and British Columbia.

Canada has submitted the request to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to set up an adjudication panel to judge its dispute with the United States over Canadian lumber exports, according to an agenda circulated by the WTO.

Members of the printing, publishing and paper-producing industries, which employ more than 600,000 workers, are announcing the formation of Stop Tariffs on Printers & Publishers (STOPP), a coalition to fight proposed countervailing duties (CVD) and anti-dumping duties (AD) on imports of Canadian uncoated groundwood papers, including newsprint and other papers.

The Holyoke Fire Department has put out the flames of an outdoor fire at Sonoco Products.

Asia Pulp & Paper calls to end the divide between forests and crops in honour of World Forestry Day.

A small fire was reported at LSC Communications in Dwight, Illinois around 6:15 p.m. on March 16.

The De Pere Fire Department responded to a fire at Expera facility in building No. 2, at 1:05 p.m. March 9.

Valmet has successfully delivered and started up a rebuild of Alas Doradas' PM4 tissue machine, close to San Salvador, El Salvador.

Smurfit Kappa's Mengíbar Paper Mill in Spain is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Negotiations are under way for a new contract at the Westrock paper mill in Covington.

Bemis Company, Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement with Starboard Value LP ("Starboard"), which currently owns approximately 3.3% of the Company's outstanding shares, pursuant to which its Board of Directors has appointed Guillermo Novo, Marran H. Ogilvie, George W. Wurtz III, and Robert H. Yanker as new independent directors to the Company's Board, effective immediately.

Andritz has officially launched the world's most modern research center for tissue, the PrimeLineTIAC Tissue Innovation and Application Center, in Graz, Austria.

Kapstone announced plans to expand their Twin Falls facility this past week.

Norbord Inc. announced that a shortage of wood will cause it to temporarily suspend production at its oriented strand board (OSB) mill in 100 Mile House, British Columbia,

Fortress Global Enterprises Inc. announced that it has signed a share purchase agreement (the "SPA") with S2G Biochemicals Inc. ("S2G") and its shareholders, whereby the Company will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of S2G for a purchase price of $2,500,000, payable by the issuance of 666,652 common shares of the Company at a deemed price of $3.75 per Fortress Global share.