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Tomi Seppä, Mill Availability Manager at Metsä Fibre's Kemi pulp mill, has been appointed manager of the Kemi mills as of 1 January 2018.

Interfor Corporation says it will invest $46 million to upgrade and modernize its sawmill in Monticello, Arkansas. The project is scheduled to be completed in early 2019.

Sonoco announced President and Chief Executive Officer M. Jack Sanders will retire, effective April 2, 2018, following a 30-year career with the Company.

Södra is to sell its Norwegian operation, Södra Wood AS, to German company Sörnsen Holzleisten. Handover is expected to take place on 1 February 2018.

Nordic electricity grids are unlikely to agree on a new system to balance power supply and demand before a January deadline as Finland opposes a proposal by Norway, Sweden and Denmark, the head of the Finnish grid says.

MoistTech Corp. has operated with the support of business for over 40 years manufacturing the world's most accurate near-infrared (NIR) industrial moisture measurement gauges and has installed over 50,000 gauges and counting to date.

For the second time in less than a week, Thunder Bay Fire Rescue crews were called to a Resolute property to help extinguish a small fire.

Shareholders representing 98% of the owners in Bergvik Skog AB, a Swedish forest holding company, have agreed to initiate discussions, based on a non-binding letter of intent, aiming at structural changes in Bergvik Skog Group.

Hamburger Recycling, part of Austrian Prinzhorn Group, has signed an agreement to purchase a recycling company Kastaş Kağıt in Turkey.

Georgia-Pacific wants to slash by nearly half the amount of property taxes it pays on the company's two paper mills in Green Bay, a move that would bump up taxes on homeowners and other businesses.

A.Celli Paper received an order confirmation from Yibin Paper Industry Co., Ltd (part of the YIBO Group) for the supply of five high-speed tissue machines, each of which boasts a production capacity of 25,000 tons per year, 74 tons per day at 100% efficiency.

Rengo Co., Ltd. has completed the conversion of its containerboard machine at Kanazu Mill in Japan from one dedicated to producing corrugating medium into one also capable of producing linerboard.

Cascades launched a pilot transportation electrification project for its employees.

Norske Skog is hoping to launch a renewed exchange offer to its various creditors "as soon as possible" and said in the meantime, by skipping interest payments on its debt, it has sufficient cash "to support the operations until a recapitalization solution takes place".

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson exchanged letters recently over the struggles of the paper industry in the Fox Valley, Nelson calling for more assistance for the region and Walker trumpeting efforts that are already taking place.

Södra is now investing in more forestry drones. This digital technology speeds up the work of field staff at the same time as it makes it more comprehensive and safer.

A machine malfunction at Quad Graphics plant Burlington-area first responders busy late Tuesday night.

The company would not say why the deal fell through, or how the company is planning to re-market it. A company spokesperson says that's all confidential information.

Andritz has received an order from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES), Japan, to deliver a PowerFluid circulating fluidized bed boiler with flue gas cleaning system for a new biomass power plant to be built on the premises of the MES shipyard in Ichihara, Japan.

The transaction is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2018.

Last week we talked about personnel; I promised to talk about maintenance this week.

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Indonesia has announced that it will host the third Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit next year.

Thunder Bay Fire Rescue crews remained on the scene at a Resolute Forest Products facility Monday after a fire near the boiler system that uses oil experienced a small explosion.