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Sappi has awarded Pöyry the detailed design for the rebuild of paper machine No. 1 at its Somerset paper manufacturing facility in Skowhegan, Maine.

Valmet will supply a new winder for Shandong Chenming Paper Ltd. at its Zhanjiang site in Guangdong province, China.

Multi Packaging Solutions International ("MPS") has signed a letter of intent to acquire the business of Paris Art Label Company, Inc., subject to standard completion of diligence steps and Board of Directors' approval which is expected to be completed on or about March 31, 2017.

UPM has signed an agreement on the sale of its hydro power facilities in Schongau and Ettringen, Germany to erdgas schwaben gmbh, a regional energy company, located in Augsburg.

Almost a year after founder Ron Van Den Heuvel sought protection from investors and creditors, the trash-into-treasure company could emerge ready to operate if it can secure $176 million in financing.

Klabin says it will conduct maintenance shutdowns at its two units in Paraná, Brazil

A ruling issued by Georgia Superior Court Judge Stephen Kelley has reversed a previous decision in state administrative court that required the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to issue a more stringent pollution permit for the Rayonier Advanced Materials mill near Jesup.

Avery Dennison Corporation has appointed Gregory S. Lovins as vice president and interim CFO, effective immediately.

Voith says it is accelerating its digital transformation, taking yet another step in its digital agenda. The technology group announced that it has joined forces with the Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures - a subsidiary of the Boston Consulting Group - to establish a digital marketplace for the paper industry.

Fibria announced that it started construction on an intermodal terminal located in Aparecida do Taboado, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, which will ship the pulp produced at its new facility in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul to the Macuco Terminal at the Port of Santos in São Paulo, from where it will be exported to clients in Asia, Europe and the United States.

Firefighters from Bucksport and several surrounding towns extinguished a fire Saturday morning at the former Verso paper mill.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was slated to be on hand Monday as Pratt Industries officially opens its new 350,000-square-foot corrugated box factory in Beloit.

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Huhtamaki Foodservice Europe-Asia-Oceania today introduced AdtoneTM, a single-use paper cup with digitalized connection.

Rayonier Inc. announced that the company has entered into three transactions with separate sellers to acquire approximately 95,100 acres of high-quality industrial timberlands located in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $217 million, or $2,280 per acre.

Wood pellet manufacturers in both the US and Canada are increasingly diversifying their feedstock to reduce fiber costs and take advantage of less utilized fiber sources, according to analysis by Wood Resources International.

Sonoco announced it has completed the acquisition of Peninsula Packaging Company.

The Dow Chemical Co., based in Michigan, and Delaware-based DuPont are nearing the end of the regulatory approval process for their upcoming merger into DowDuPont, and the companies are now targeting a second-quarter closing date.

The town's top elected official criticized demolition crews on Tuesday for unsafe conditions that impeded firefighters battling a toxic fire at the former Great Northern Paper Co. site.

Canfor Pulp Products Inc. has been awarded $13 million to continue its funding one of its environmentally-friendly green initiatives.

The combination of Ahlstrom and Munksjö is approved by the European Commission and expected to be completed in the beginning of April 2017.