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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.

A new project has been proposed for the site near Richmond previously intended for a Chinese company's paper manufacturing facility that never materialized.

China's Shanying Paper will take a majority stake in a new Finnish company Boreal Bioref, securing financing for a planned 950 million euro pulp mill project in northern Finland, Boreal said on Friday.

PCA has begun construction of its new full-line corrugated facility in Marshfield, Wisconsin. The new facility is scheduled for completion later this year.

Six laborers died of suffocation after inhaling poisonous gas as they went down a tank of a paper mill to clean it.

Some Georgia-Pacific workers in Taylorsville, Mississippi, are on strike over scheduling issues after nearly a year of negotiating.

Sonoco announced the start of Robert C. Tiede's tenure as the new President and CEO of Sonoco. Tiede replaces the retiring Jack Sanders, who served as President and CEO since 2013.

Rengo resolved to subscribe for the issuance of 2,150,000 new shares by third party allotment in Toppan Containers Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., and to acquire 340,000 common shares from Toppan Printing to make Toppan Containers a subsidiary of Rengo.

LSC Communications has signed a multi-year publisher services agreement with America's Test Kitchen (ATK) to provide print, sourcing, distribution and postal optimization solutions for ATK's media entities including cookbooks and magazines.

Needs to add capacity in coming years to meet demand growth.

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