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You are reading this, most likely, at an operating facility. I am going to give you two important challenges that are vital to the success of your company, no matter what your position is.

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Pennsylvania-based PaperWorks Industries Inc. has invested $3.5 million in an effort to reduce energy consumption at its Wabash facility. The work was completed with the assistance of Duke Energy, which provided incentives to the company.

In 2016 Sappi and Valmet agreed on a joint development project to deliver a demonstration plant to Sappi Ngodwana Mill in South Africa in order to explore and optimize the extraction of biorenewable chemicals. The demonstration plant was officially opened on April 5, 2017.

A group of private equity companies have bid around 200 billion Swedish crowns ($22.3 billion) for the hygiene arm of tissue and forestry products firm SCA.

Ron Van Den Heuvel and Kelly Yessman Van Den Heuvel were scheduled to go on trial July 31, but at a hearing Tuesday, that was pushed back to Oct. 23.

Mercer International Inc. announced that it has completed, through its wholly owned subsidiary Mercer Timber Products GmbH (MTP), its previously announced agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of one of Germany's largest sawmills and a bio-mass power plant, near Friesau, Germany, for approximately $55.1 million plus defined working capital of approximately $6.5 million.

Södra says it aims to be fossil-free by 2030. This target was set in 2016 when 15 sustainability targets were adopted. Södra is now strengthening that promise by accepting the challenge from Fossil Free Sweden to achieve fossil-free transportation by 2030.

Japan Pulp and Paper, the country's largest paper trading house, will acquire Oceanian peers.

Sonoco has announced a new product, PromoPeel™ Integrated Label Technology for flexible packaging, which allows brand owners to create an instant redeemable coupon or label as a part of the product packaging, guaranteeing a consistent label position while saving production time and costs.

Valmet will supply Valmet DNA automation systems and Valmet IQ quality control systems to Jiangxi Taison Paper's four new tissue machines, TM7, TM8, TM9 and TM10, at its greenfield mill in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China.

Metsä Group's Wood Products Industry Metsä Wood has bought a 10 hectare industrial site in the city of Pärnu, Estonia and commences the construction work of the new birch plywood mill immediately.

A Los Angeles jury has hit Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Halyard Health Inc. with a stunning $454 Million fraud verdict due to the sale by the companies of defective medical devices to doctors, hospitals and trauma centers throughout California for years.

Buckeye Corrugated Inc. (BCI), Akron, Ohio has acquired Bellotti Packaging, Inc. (known as Bell-Pak) located in Syracuse, New York.

Japan Pulp and Paper Company Limited (JP) announced the establishment of a new representative office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Federal prosecutors say a former DuPont employee stole more than 20,000 confidential files from the firm to help bolster a consulting business he started shortly before his retirement.

McKinley Paper Co. officials are settling in as new owners of the nearly dormant Nippon Paper Industries USA facility in preparation for shutting it down within the next two weeks for up to 18 months.

A Verso employee lost his life early Saturday morning as the result of an incident that occurred at Verso's Luke Mill.

FITNIR Analyzers Inc. has been awarded with supplying its state-of-the-art FT-NIR online analyzer system to Harmac Pacific.

Kruger Products, Canada's leading tissue manufacturer, is listed in the Corporate Knights 2017 Future 40 Responsible Corporate Leaders in Canada ranking released today.

CN has recognized 32 of its customers for their sustainability practices that are aligned with the objectives of the CN EcoConnexions program.

Florida Forest Service crews worked to contain a 140 acre wildfire at a forest area owned by Weyerhaeuser, the timber company.

I will bet you have tasks, if viewed by a critical eye, that would appear somewhat ludicrous. They may include a meeting you attend regularly that does nothing toward moving your enterprise forward. They may be insane reports that no one reads, or some other habitual exercise that does nothing...

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