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UPM has published details of its performance-based incentive system amid a labor dispute between the Finnish Paper Workers' Union and Finnish Forest Industries.

Norske Skog was saved from a bankruptcy filing this week, after various groups of creditors finally agreed on a rescue plan.

Britain's DS Smith Plc said on Wednesday it would acquire a Romania-based paper and packaging business for an enterprise value of about 208 million euros ($244.6 million) to expand its Eastern European presence.

More than 4,000 jobs could be saved by a $200 million expansion of the WestRock paper mill in Hodge in a deal aided by state incentives.

International technology Group Andritz has successfully started up the TM6 tissue machine delivered to Guizhou Chitianhua Paper Industry Co., Ltd. (Taison Group), Guizhou Province, China.

American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President & CEO Donna Harman issued a statement regarding President Trump's official proclamation recognizing the 57th anniversary of National Forest Products Week...

San Francisco judge accepts Greenpeace's free-speech defense...

At Port Hawkesbury Paper, it will be business as usual.

"MoistTech Corp. has grown over the past years with the need to expand our corporate headquarters to a larger facility to continue to exceed our customer's needs."

Petros Fundacao, the pension fund for employees of state-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro SA , has agreed to sell an 8.53 percent stake it holds in pulpmaker Eldorado Brasil SA, after Paper Excellence BV exercised an option to buy the stake.

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation has finalized the acquisition of International Barrier Technology Inc.

West Linn Paper Company today (16 Oct 2017) announced that it is ceasing operations and will commence a winding up of its business supervised by its second lien lender.

Arauco officially announced it presented an Environmental Impact Statement for the extension and modernization of the Valdivia sawmill, which involves a $151 million investment to modernize the current facility and increase annual production capacity from 487,000 cubic metres to about 1 million cubic metres.

UPM welcomed European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefcovic, responsible for the Energy Union, to the UPM Kaukas Mill site in Lappeenranta Finland on Friday.

Trump administration orders two big corporations to pay for a $115 million cleanup at a Texas toxic waste site that may have spread dangerous levels of pollution during the flooding from Hurricane Harvey.

If your reputation for quality is horrible, there is only one choice--fix it. But to reach that one choice, you must first be willing to accept the feedback that your reputation for quality is poor. This is a hurdle for many organizations; they are dismissive of customer feedback, and say to themselves, "It is only a single case" or "customers are not willing to pay for quality." I know of three organizations that have met this challenge head-on and done something about it...

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Maria Baldin has been appointed the new Director of Communications and Sustainability at Södra. She will assume her position on 1 January 2018 and will be a member of Group Senior Management, reporting to President and CEO Lars Idermark.

International Paper Company announced the election of Jacqueline C. Hinman and Clinton A. Lewis, Jr. to its Board of Directors effective November 4, 2017.

Catalyst Paper says it's implemented a new Recruitment and Onboarding system that will make it faster and easier for prospective employees to access current and future career opportunities.

Glatfelter, the York, Pa.-based global manufacturer of specialty papers and fiber-based engineered materials, soon will begin making its sought-after "airlaid" products in Fort Smith for the "wipes and hygiene markets."

Weyerhaeuser Company announced the redemption of its 21 percent ownership interest in the Twin Creeks Timber, LLC joint venture for $107.5 million in cash.

Firefighters say a fire at the wood yard of the Sappi paper mill in Skowhegan has been brought under control.

Grupo Gondi has announced plans to construct a new 400,000 ton containerboard mill near Monterrey, Mexico.

Smurfit Kappa Mexico says it has invested $62 million in a new machine which began operating recently in the Los Reyes Paper Mill, north of Mexico City.