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Metsä Tissue is acquiring a new tissue product converting line to its Žilina mill in Slovakia.

Canfor Pulp Products Inc. announced that, due to an organizational change, Brett Robinson, President of Canfor Pulp, will be leaving the Company, effective immediately.

Ultra-high-speed digital printing investment expands EFI/Orora partnership for digital production and workflow systems.

Longview and Cowlitz 2 firefighters responded to a fire at the Weyerhaeuser Co. sawmill in Longview early Friday morning.

On February 28th, 2018, PaperWorks Industries, Inc. and certain of its affiliates completed a comprehensive financial restructuring of the Company's debt and equity.

A worker at the JD Irving sawmill in Dixfield died in a workplace accident Saturday, according to company officials.

Executives of Cenveo say the Stamford-based company will successfully navigate its recently declared bankruptcy. But some of the firm's largest investors do not share that optimism.

In March 2018, Hamburger Rieger GmbH will start the scheduled construction of its second paper machine at its Spremberg location, Germany.

Saica has acquired the French group Emin Leydier, manufacturer of paper and corrugated packaging. This includes all of its shareholders; including part of First Eagle Funds for US investors, and the Emin family and Leydier family shareholders.

Universal Forest Products is planning to spend one-third of its savings from federal tax reform on a more customized array of employee benefits.

Clearwater Paper Corporation announced that Richard D. Peach has been appointed to the company's board of directors, effective March 1, 2018.

Two U.S. awards underscore Kimberly-Clark's progress toward its Sustainability 2022 energy and climate goals.

Enviva Partners, LP reports that a fire commenced at its deep-water marine terminal in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Carthage Specialty Paperboard has decided to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, saying it's "facing an acute cash flow shortage." That means layoffs are possible.

UPM paid a total of EUR 65 million as short-term incentives to employees in 2017.

Potlatch Corporation and its subsidiary, Potlatch Land & Lumber, signed an agreement in early February with the Department of Justice, Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Highway Administration.

There is probably no subject we cover more and that is ignored more than maintenance. Let's face it, maintenance is not glamorous. It is not a new machine. It is often not even a piece of a new machine. It is simply maintaining what you have. Yet, maintenance is everything.

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Essity is restructuring its production facility in Santiago, Chile, to further improve quality and cost for the Consumer Tissue and Professional Hygiene businesses in the country.

Sappi North America has joined on as a new funding partner of The Recycling Partnership, a national nonprofit that applies corporate funding to improve recycling efforts in communities across the country.

Sappi has announced the completion of its acquisition of speciality paper business of Cham Paper Group.

Tolko Industries announced it has partnered with Louisiana-based Hunt Forest Products to build a state-of-the-art sawmill near Urania, La.