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SCA and Fotografiska (The Swedish Museum of Photography) in Stockholm have signed a partnership agreement aimed at highlighting how hygiene and health affect people's well-being.

Hood Container of Louisiana is installing new equipment at its St. Francisville paper manufacturing facility in a $61 million project that will add 10 jobs with an average salary of $51,450, plus benefits.

Firefighters on Monday gained control of a fire at a Clearwater paper facility in North Las Vegas that shut down traffic on a surface street for several hours.

Fortress Paper Ltd. has announced a major investment to advance its strategic project of utilizing birch to manufacture dissolving pulp at the Fortress Specialty Cellulose Mill located in Thurso, Québec.

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Stora Enso has finalized the co-determination negotiations regarding the consolidation of manufacturing of corrugated packaging in Finland, which will result in the company's corrugated packaging plant in Heinola to be closed permanently and packaging manufacturing transferred to the Lahti plant.

Cascades has announced a new partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation, a respected, non-government environmental organization dedicated to protecting the environment.

OMNOVA Solutions Inc. is moving forward with its CEO succession process, and Kevin M. McMullen is stepping down as Chairman, CEO and President, and as a member of the Board of Directors, effective December 1, 2016, to pursue other interests.

Expera Coated Products, a business unit of Expera Specialty Solutions, has made official its expansion plans at the former Printpack building in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.

Verso Corp., which operates a mill in Jay, is consolidating its administrative offices and restructuring the paper company into two divisions as it continues to seek ways to trim costs.

Burrows Paper Corp. of Little Falls, New York, announced Friday that it was selling its packaging division to Novolex of Charlotte, North Carolina, and its paper division to Twin Rivers, in a deal that is expected to close later this year.

The University of Washington's (UW) Bioresource Science and Engineering (BSE) department and the Washington Pulp and Paper Foundation (https://depts.washington.edu/wppf) celebrated their 48th year of association with a day of student poster presentations, demonstrations of papermaking and an annual banquet with student reflections as well as presentations of the "Outstanding Alumni" and "Wall of Fame" awards.

The Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. merger talk is back on the table. The European Commission said it received missing information it had requested as antitrust regulators review the $130 billion deal.

Michelman recently held its 5th Annual Global Day of Service. Hundreds of employees around the globe left their offices, labs and email behind to volunteer their time at a wide variety of locations.

A paper mill that serves as a key economic driver in northern Manitoba has received an 11th hour rescue, less than a month before it was slated to be shut down.

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Multi Packaging Solutions International Limited has completed two strategic acquisitions that complement other operations within MPS and further extend the range of products the group offers its customers.

Sonoco has completed the sale of its rigid plastics blow molding operations to Amcor, a global leader of rigid and flexible packaging products, for $280 million.

Maine is poised to finally begin shipping wood chips to Europe for power generation next year if plans under way at Eastport and Searsport stay on schedule.

Heeding concerns that a proposed franchise fee could jeopardize the future of Verso Corp.'s paper mill in West Duluth and the 260 jobs it provides, city councilors unanimously voted Monday night to roll back the fee the company could have seen tacked onto its mammoth electric bill.

Ahlstrom has signed an agreement to sell its German subsidiary with operations in Osnabrück to Kämmerer Paper Holding GmbH.

The Board of Directors of Ahlstrom Corporation has appointed Sakari Ahdekivi as the interim President & CEO with immediate effect. He replaces Marco Levi due to the announced merger plan between Ahlstrom and Munksjö Oyj.