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Germany's mutares AG announced this week that it has acquired the French core board manufacturer Sonoco Paper France from Sonoco Products Company.

As of mid-May, Södra has produced 500,000 tonnes of dissolving pulp at its pulp mill in Mörrum. Production started in December 2011 and has increased steadily since then.

Shares in Catalyst Paper jumped more than 700% Tuesday after the company announced that Indian papermaker Kejriwal Group International is interested in acquiring it.

Verso Corp. posted $88 million in losses for the first quarter of the year, with operating losses nearly doubled from one year ago.

Appointments would go into effect after the deal closes.

Production at the mill ended Saturday and there has been no change in the search for buyers, according to the mill president and CEO.

The American Forest & Paper Association has released US paper production statistics for April 2016.

An incident at a Greif facility in Gladstone, Virginia left a North Carolina man dead Monday, according to the Amherst County Sheriff's Office.

Wood costs for pulp mills in Eastern Canada have fallen dramatically the past four years, and the region has some of the lowest wood fiber costs in North America, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review. In 2012, pulp mills in Ontario and Quebec had some of the highest wood fiber costs on the continent.

At 5:54 a.m. March 31, 2016 the A64 paper machine produced its last reel of paper, marking the final day of operation for one machine and setting the stage for a new era and the future of the Ashdown mill.

Simmering tensions between B.C. and Quebec, and between large and small Canadian lumber producers, will frame formal Canada-U. S. negotiations to take place here next week.

Norbord Inc. announced that its mill in High Level, Alberta resumed production over the weekend following a fire that occurred on May 4th.

Damage was estimated at $100,000 to a Graphic Packaging facility following a fire late Friday night. Thirty employees were evacuated without injury. Seventeen firefighters fought the fire and were at the scene three hours.

When sentenced in November, Robert Lees could face up to 60 years in federal prison. Lees was among those who were involved in alleged kickback schemes. He was convicted of conspiracy, mail fraud, money laundering and making false statements in a loan application following a seven-day trial in federal court.

Valmet announced that it will supply a sulfuric acid plant to Metsä Group`s bioproduct mill in Äänekoski for in-house sulfuric acid production.

Huhtamaki has acquired Delta Print and Packaging Limited, a privately held folding carton packaging manufacturer based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and its affiliated Polish unit.

After a historic court ruling in the United Kingdom, cigarettes will now be sold in plain packaging, with prominent, graphic health warnings. Ireland and France have also passed legislation requiring plain packaging.

An International Paper employee was hospitalized after being sprayed with sulfuric acid, according to the United Steelworkers Union.

Smurfit Kappa's recycling operations in the UK has completed a programme of investment in its national depot network, designed to save energy, increase the efficiency of its operations, improve worker safety and enhance customer experience.

The easiest energy savings follow the same philosophy as the easiest safety improvements. If it does not exist, it cannot hurt you or consume energy. Your first reaction will be this: we don't operate anything we don't need in order to run our facility. Really? I'll bet I could find all sorts of things to turn off or modify in your facility...

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Since both the demand and cost of energy are projected to increase, the importance of energy conservation measures will become even more important in the future.

Stora Enso announced it has signed strategic partnership agreements with three of the leading technical universities in Sweden and Finland.