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WestRock Company announced that it has been named to FORTUNE magazine's annual list of World's Most Admired Companies for the third consecutive year.

International Paper announced that it has been named again by FORTUNE magazine as one of the "Worlds Most Admired Companies."

An equipment malfunction Friday morning at Glatfelter paper company in Spring Grove created an odor that led to dozens of reports of gas leaks throughout York County.

Hamburger Turkey Ltd., part of Hamburger Containerboard, has purchased a new paper machine from Valmet for its paper mill project in Kütahya, Turkey.

Yesterday Iceland announced plans to eliminate all plastic packaging in their own brands by 2023. In its place, they will create packaging made of paper and pulp trays and paper bags that are fully recyclable through domestic waste collection or in-store recycling facilities. They will begin by launching new food ranges in the coming months that have paper instead of plastic trays.

Smurfit Kappa has opened a new recycling plant in Malaga, Spain, which will strengthen its recovered paper service in the region.

A fire at Tolko Mills on Two Mile Flat had Quesnel Volunteer Firefighters out in force at 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 17.

LSC Communications, a Chicago-based spinoff of Fortune 500 company R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., is closing its plant in Long Prairie, Minn., resulting in the layoff of 236 workers there, according to a notice filed with the state of Minnesota.

Port Hawkesbury Paper has been shut down for nearly two weeks over the past month.

Verso is asking the city to submit an application for a $1 million forgivable state loan to help upgrade the recycling capacity of the mill. The project would likely require a total investment of $21 million.

When considering capital projects, especially those of larger sizes, I have always been bemused by the owner's team approach to negotiations with goods and services providers...

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WestRock Company has named James Armstrong vice president - Investor Relations.

FuturaGene, a wholly owned subsidiary of Suzano Pulp and Paper, and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), announces that a patent has been issued in Brazil to CSIRO, which covers the downregulation of the expression of plant target genes or other target genes, including genes of insect pests and disease agents.

The new Voith XcelLine tissue machine TM 12 was successfully started up at Guangdong Lee & Man, taking only 28 minutes from "stock on wire" to "paper on reel."

Verso Corp. revealed that its Strategic Alternatives Committee is looking at the possibility of selling the entire company outright, or merging with another.

A fleet of fire engines rushed to a Mold Business Park on Tuesday following reports of a blaze inside a Smurfit Kappa facility.

European Commission regulators have raided publisher Euromoney's newly-acquired specialist unit covering the paper industry as part of an investigation into the kraft paper and industrial paper sack sector. Euromoney confirmed the "inspection" by antitrust authorities at the Brussels office of RISI...

Valmet will supply an OptiConcept M board production line with automation for Pratt Paper, LLC for Pratt's new greenfield paper mill in Wapakoneta, Ohio.

Nippon Paper Industries announces that its consolidated subsidiary, Kitakami Paper, has decided at the meeting of the Board of Directors held that it will withdraw from all of its businesses on July 31, 2018.

"We are stunned that a single U.S. mill in Longview, Washington, has been able to manipulate the trade laws to their gain, while potentially wreaking financial havoc on newspapers and other commercial publishers across the country," said the News Media Alliance, which represents more than 2,000 U.S. news organizations, in a statement Wednesday.

UPM Raflatac has opened a new labelstock slitting and distribution terminal in Santiago, Chile.

A bylaw banning plastic bags has been adopted in Victoria, the first local government to do so in British Columbia.

McDonald's will stop using plastic foam cups, which keep drinks icy cold but make environmentalists red hot, by the end of this year.