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Orora Limited has signed a definitive agreement to acquire The Register Print Group for $44 million.

Union millworkers have approved KapStone's latest contract offer, drawing an end to the protracted labor dispute that has stretched over two years at the Longview pulp and paper mill.

Hawesville-based Domtar was presented a Governor's Safety and Health Award for working 1,053,309 consecutive hours without a lost time injury or illness.

A loss of power at Georgia-Pacific in Camas led to an "odor incident," at the paper mill on Monday.

Precision Paper Converters (PPC) has announced the $5.8 million expansion of its facility in Kaukauna, Wisconsin and installation of a state-of-the-art facial tissue interfolder and cartoner.

The UPM biodiversity programme received an honourable mention in the 2016 corporate biodiversity awards by Finland's leading corporate responsibility network FIBS. The six finalists presented their proposals to a judging panel and audience in a pitching event.

DS Smith announced the proposed acquisition of Parish Manufacturing Inc. Parish is a US manufacturer and supplier of bag-in-box systems.

Södra has become the first company in Sweden to sign Green Forest Management Plans that also integrate environmental considerations for watercourses. This is the latest step in Södra's nature conservation programme.

Avery Dennison Corporation has agreed to acquire Hanita Coatings, a pressure-sensitive materials manufacturer of specialty films and laminates from Kibbutz Hanita Coatings and Tene Investment Funds for the purchase price of $75 million.

ABB has launched L&W Freeness Online, what the company describes as a reliable, repeatable and cost-effective online system for measuring, monitoring and controlling key quality variables - Canadian Standard Freeness (CSF) and Schopper-Riegler (SR) - in paper stock preparation.

Maine sawmills and timber harvesters could benefit if President-elect Donald Trump goes through with a draft plan to aggressively renegotiate trade terms for competing softwood lumber imported from Canada.

The board of BillerudKorsnäs has made the decision to carry out the largest investment in the history of the company and one of the largest in Sweden in recent years - the investment in a new board machine at the Gruvön site, Sweden.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said it had instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against Kimberly-Clark Australia and White King seller Pental Limited.

Xerium Technologies, Inc. has introduced TransForm, which the company describes as a revolutionary new generation of forming fabrics designed specifically for paperboard and packaging machines that lowers energy consumption and extends fabric life, among other considerable benefits.

Louisiana-Pacific named new heads of its oriented strand board, siding and engineered wood products businesses Thursday.

The board of directors of Borregaard and Rayonier Advanced Materials have decided to go ahead with the investment project in Florida after securing necessary permits as well as incentives from local authorities.

The Paper Science and Engineering Foundation at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, is seeking an executive director who will be responsible for all functional aspects of the organization.

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The two Austrians and a Chinese man who died in a plane crash in Pakistan worked for Austrian engineering group Andritz on a hydropower project in the north of the country, a spokesman for the company said on Wednesday.

Millworkers will vote on a new contract offer from KapStone next week, more than two years after their original contract expired.

UPM has become member of RSB, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials. RSB is a global standard and certification scheme for sustainable production of biomaterials and biofuels. It is also an independent multi-stakeholder coalition, which works to support the sustainability of biomaterials.

After promising initial tests, BillerudKorsnäs is now moving ahead with full scale trials adding microfibrillated cellulose, MFC, to its paperboard products. The initiative is made possible through a new cooperation with Norwegian biorefinery pioneer Borregaard.