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Kimberly-Clark Corp. remains noncommittal concerning state lawmakers' efforts to avoid its two plant closures in the Fox Cities.

Recently, our leader Jim Thompson wrote about gun control vs. abortion. I'm going to piggy back on that debate from a different angle: Today's communication.

Nippon Paper Industries held a completion ceremony for the biomass mixed combustion power generation facility at Ishinomaki Hibarino Power Plant, operated by Nippon Paper Ishinomaki Energy Center Ltd., which had been engaged in unit trial operations since September 2017.

Valmet will supply a multifuel power boiler and auxiliary process equipment to Kipas Holding's greenfield paper mill in Söke, Aydin, Turkey.

The mandate has been designed to address the growing crisis in water and sanitation in many parts of the world by implementing a range of strategies and policies.

Yes, it is Safety Month here at Paperitalo Publications and time to emphasize this topic once again. We emphasize it every week at the end of this column, but this month we have the opportunity to dive a little deeper.

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International Paper Co. isn't likely to back down in its play for Irish packaging manufacturer Smurfit Kappa Group Plc and could go hostile, according to two analysts tracking the industry.

Last year, China--the world's largest importer of waste--announced it no longer wanted to take in other countries' trash so it could focus on its own pollution problems.

The driver of a 18-wheeler was injured when his tractor-trailer rolled over at the entrance to a paper mill late Tuesday morning, police said.

Two companies have expressed interest in making purchase offers for Carthage Specialty Paperboard, according to the village mayor.

All of these paper-based traditions helped make Easter a special time.

USG Boral is relocating its corporate headquarters from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore.

Local pulp mills are having trouble getting enough rail cars to get their product to market.

Greenpeace is withdrawing from the main global group for certifying sustainable wood, saying the organization it helped found more than two decades ago is failing to protect natural forests from exploitation.

John Townsend gave notice of his retirement March 20.

Valmet will supply a warp control system to Stora Enso Packaging's corrugated board plant in Ostroleka, Poland.

The industry could branch out into skyscrapers... if the U.S. allows them to be made out of wood, like Canada and other European countries do.

Universal Forest Products, Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries has signed an agreement to purchase substantially all of the operating assets of North American Container Corp. (NACC), a Marietta, Ga.-based manufacturer of structural packaging products, adding steel, corrugated and hardwood packaging to Universal's growing portfolio of industrial products.

More than 160 people are losing their jobs in June when a manufacturing plant near Hazelton shuts down.

Ireland's Smurfit Kappa rejected a raised takeover offer from International Paper on Monday, frustrating a bid to combine the largest listed U.S. paper packaging firm with Europe's biggest.

As a result of innovative thinking based on decades of competence from papermaking, BillerudKorsnäs launches its first packaging with a climate-positive impact. D-Sack®, the dissolvable sack for cement and other construction materials, disintegrates in a conventional mixer and the bio-based carbon in the paper is captured in the construction itself.

The first ever flash dryer for purely fiber delivered under the Valmet brand has been started up with fiber at Stora Enso's biocomposite plant at Hylte Mill in Sweden.

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.