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Resolute Forest Products is cutting 222 jobs at its Calhoun, Tenn., mill as it shuts down newsprint production operations and puts more focus on making tissue.

Shares of major Canadian lumber producers came under pressure Monday after an analyst doused cold water on hope for a solution to the cross-border softwood dispute any time soon.

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Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. and Tembec Inc. announced that they received notification from the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China...

Harvesting wood for the needs of the bioproduct mill in Äänekoski started on 11 August 2017.

A UNBC Professor fears the wildfires raging across BC will have significant impacts on forestry operators, especially smaller ones focusing on localized areas.

Packaging Corporation of America will move its Colby, Wisconsin facility to Marshfield, bringing with it 80 jobs and creating 20 more once the facility is up and running.

The chief executive of $3.3 billion packaging giant Orora says the North American economy has better prospects over the next year than the Australia's, largely because of substantially cheaper energy prices and lower cost pressures on households.

The Verso paper mill in Jay could be in line for additional investment as the company considers all options for increasing value.

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Valmet announced it has completed the annual shutdown of Klabin S.A. Monte Alegre paper mill in Brazil successfully.

A Chicago federal judge has boxed up a class action antitrust suit against two containerboard companies, which alleged the companies conspired to fix prices, saying plaintiffs may have raised prices and cut production, but defendants failed to show the acts were part of a scheme and not simply reactions to the market.

Construction is expected to start this summer, a news release from Gov. Nathan Deal's office said, with completion expected in 2019.

A Jay, Maine man, one of three former employees accused of taking items from Verso paper mill in Jay, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Franklin County Superior Court.

Sun Chemical has named Veritiv as a distribution partner of its Streamline solvent inkjet inks for wide format and super wide format printers.

UPM Raflatac, one of the world's leading suppliers of self-adhesive label materials, has completed its acquisition of the assets of Irving, Texas-based Southwest Label Stock.

Cascades Inc. announced that it will close its packaging plant in Maspeth, New York, as part of the Corporation's modernization and optimization efforts in the Northeastern United States.

The state's water regulator for Central and North Florida renewed permits Tuesday for two of Florida's biggest industrial consumers of aquifer water.

Sinar Mas Group's Asia Pulp and Paper collaborated with the Japan Agency for Environmental Business, or JAEB, and the International Tropical Timber Organization to conserve the Kerumutan forest in Pelalawan, Riau Islands, by planting Meranti trees there on Monday.

The government India said that employees of Nagaon and Cachar paper mills belonging to central PSU Hindustan Paper Corp have not been paid salaries for 8 months and 10 months, respectively.

Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. and Tembec Inc. announced that the Québec Superior Court issued a final order approving the previously announced statutory arrangement under Section 192 of the Canada Business Corporations Act (the "Transaction") involving the acquisition by Rayonier Advanced Materials of all of the outstanding shares of Tembec.

DuPont has agreed to pay nearly $400 million to settle environmental lawsuits ahead of its planned merger with the Dow Chemical Co.