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The new napkin is specifically designed to improve the food service patron experience through superior product quality, while helping to minimize waste.

Stora Enso will invest a total of approximately Euro 70 million in a new polyethylene extrusion coating plant and an automated roll warehouse at Imatra mills in Finland.

Crown Paper Group has promoted Colin Fernie to president of Port Townsend Paper and Crown Corrugated.

Researchers were puzzled when they found most of a group of people laid off in 2011 from Verso's Bucksport, Maine mill considered the job loss "generally good" for them and their families.

New technology replaces chemical pulping for production of high-strength, lightweight paper-based packaging.

A fire at a Louisiana-Pacific Corporation facility on Monday morning has been ruled accidental due to mechanical issues.

Baileyville and Skowhegan, Maine paper mills will receive state grants for railroad improvements intended to make shipping and receiving from their facilities more efficient.

The strike at a Delaware, Ohio International Paper facility is entering a second week.

A 52-year-old Green Bay, Wisconsin man was charged this week with the death of a Georgia-Pacific worker and injury to another G-P employee when he hit them with his vehicle last summer.

WestRock Company says it has successfully completed the separation of its specialty chemicals business, Ingevity Corporation.

Graphic Packaging International Inc. will close its paper converting facility in Menasha by the end of the year, laying off 228 employees.

Firefighters responded to a fire at the Kimberly-Clark facility in Jenks, Oklahoma just before midnight Thursday.

After being closed for more than a year, Manistique's paper mill is expected to be back up and running in June.

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Sealed Air Corporation announced this week that it has entered a strategic partnership with Box on Demand and Panotec, providers of 3-dimensional equipment platforms and fanfold corrugated for on-demand, right-sized box creation.

The Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, at the University of Helsinki and UPM Biochemicals have started a joint research project with the purpose of investigating the applicability of UPM's new cellulose-based gel material for cancer research.

Rayonier Inc. officially announced that the company will be moving its corporate headquarters to a new development in Nassau County, Rayonier subsidiary Raydient Places + Properties announced Tuesday.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the planned merger of rivals Staples Inc. and Office Depot Inc. because of antitrust concerns, prompting the office-supply companies to say they will abandon the roughly $6 billion deal.

Cascades announced this week that by the end of its 2013-2015 Sustainable Development Plan, the company gave a second life to 76 percent of the residual materials generated by its plants, exceeding its target of 71 percent. Over this three-year period, a total of 1.4 million tons of residuals were recovered.