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Ahlstrom-Munksjö has decided on two investment projects, totaling EUR 27 million, both with attractive financial returns and improved environmental performance and employee safety.

Kemira will make a multi-million euro investment to expand production at its Joutseno chlor-alkali site in Finland.

International Paper's pursuit of rival packager Smurfit Kappa appears to have ground to a stalemate with a spokesman for the company saying there was "no clear path forward at this time".

Georgia-Pacific employees in Taylorsville took a break from the picket line to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as they continue to strike for what they call fair contracts.

A Tuesday night fire damaged a chip conveyor before brought under control by Hartsville Fire Department and Sonoco's fire brigade, according to a statement released Friday.

A crane caught fire at Verso Paper Company in Escanaba Sunday afternoon.

One firefighter suffered a minor injury battling a fire at Louisiana-Pacific OSB Mill in Thomasville Thursday night.

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.

Bankrupt printing company Cenveo Inc should not be permitted to hire a real estate firm led by one of its former executives because it lacks experience negotiating with landlords and potential buyers, according to the company's unsecured creditors.

Sappi expects to grow its dissolving wood pulp production capacity by about 50% over the next five years, says the group's Southern Africa CEO, Alex Thiel.

Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc., North America's largest privately-owned manufacturer of fine papers, envelopes and specialty materials for printing, announced today that it has purchased Crane Stationery Corporation of North Adams, MA for an undisclosed amount.

A fiber shortage has left Catalyst Paper Corporation with no options but to curtail production on paper machine 11 at its Powell River mill.

The restructuring measures to be implemented in 2018 include the closure of the production facility in La Riba and the closure of one tissue machine at the production facility in Allo.

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.

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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.