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The Finnish tax authority has requested Valmet to pay additional taxes, late payment interest and penalties in total of EUR 19 million.

Belgium's Ontex Group NV is in advanced talks to buy the diapers business of Hypermarcas SA, Brazil's most diversified pharmaceutical firm, the companies said.

SCA has decided to discontinue its hygiene business in India.

Fortress Paper Ltd. announced that it has entered into an agreement with Chadwick Wasilenkoff for his continued role as Executive Chairman of the Company on a full-time basis.

J.D. Irving Ltd. has applied for approval to install a new effluent treatment system at its pulp mill at Lake Utopia but it's not clear what difference it will make to the Bay of Fundy estuary it flows into.

Kimberly-Clark Corp and competitor CMPC allegedly fixed prices for diaper products in Chile between 2002 and 2009, according to a document sent to the nation's competition regulator, daily newspaper La Tercera reported on Tuesday.

Mondi Ltd. said Monday that Russian anti-monopoly regulators have terminated their investigation into unit Mondi Syktyvkar due to the absence of a dominating market position of the unit during the investigation period.

A former Georgia-Pacific worker was sentenced Thursday to 68 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and three counts of money laundering.

Glatfelter announced that Senior Vice President of Human Resources & Administration, William T. Yanavitch II, will retire from the company, effective March 31, 2017.

When crews arrived, the sprinkler fire system had knocked down most of the fire. Firefighters found fire and heavy smoke in the ventilation system and was able to extinguish the fire quickly.

With its Merritt mill now closed, Tolko remains open to selling the site, but is not actively trying to sell the property.

Svenska Cellulosa AB will acquire BSN Medical for 2.74 billion euros ($2.9 billion) as the Swedish maker of Velvet tissues expands into wound care and orthopedics ahead of a planned split from forestry products.

Clearwater Paper Corporation announced it has acquired Manchester Industries of Richmond, Virginia, a leading, independently-owned paperboard sales, sheeting and distribution supplier to the packaging and commercial print industries.

Södra is investing SEK 6 million ($642,233) in its Falkenberg nursery in Sweden.

A Universal Forest Products executive was sentenced in federal court on Thursday to 50 months in prison for conspiracy, mail fraud, money-laundering and making false statements in a loan application in connection with the construction of Vineyard Commons in Highland, N.Y.

Valmet will deliver key technology for a new green field dissolving pulp mill to Sun Paper's new investment in Laos.

Firefighters were called to two paper mills in the Glens Falls, New York region late Thursday morning after reports of fire.

Greenpeace and WWF have suspended their relationship with one of Indonesia's leading pulp and paper companies, saying it didn't live up to promises to stop clearing virgin forests and peatlands.

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Burgo Group announced, in the integrated mill of Burgo Ardennes, the conclusion of a large project aimed at replacing fuel oil used to power the boilers of Virton paper mill in Belgium with natural gas.

Smurfit Kappa Group has appointed Ken Bowles, Group CFO, to the Group's Board of Directors.

The Grant will be used towards the deployment of CO2 Solutions' technology for a carbon capture plant at the Fibrek General Partnership pulp mill, a subsidiary of Resolute Forest Products, in the Saint-Félicien region of Quebec (Canada).