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Södra's new pulp mill in Värö was officially inaugurated on Friday 30 September.

UPM Paper Asia business area will be renamed UPM Specialty Papers as of 1 October 2016. The new name highlights the business area's strategic focus on specialty papers and global operations.

More than 300 attend annual meeting and LGMI conference is coming to Raleigh in mid-October

Procter & Gamble announced that Pampers has partnered with Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurses to design and introduce the new Pampers Preemie Swaddlers Size P-3 diaper.

Kendall Packaging will be expending up to $10 million on an expansion that will support its current growth plan and contribute significantly to area economic development efforts.

Chinese-owned Tranlin Inc. is taking a major step to proceed with its planned, $2 billion pulp mill.

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Cansel announced that it has acquired the engineering bond paper converting operations and business in Eastern Canada (Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador & Nunavut) of Unisource Canada, Inc., a Veritiv Company.

A WestRock facility located in Dillon County, South Carolina will cease operations at the end of November, according to corporate officials.

ST Tissue LLC, a manufacturer of napkins, toilet paper and paper towels operating out of the International Paper campus near Franklin, will invest $35 million to expand its operations into Isle of Wight County, according to an announcement by Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday morning. The expansion is expected to create 50 new jobs, each with an average salary of $53,000 annually.

Stora Enso is launching a new paperboard, CKB Nude™ by Stora Enso, at FachPack in Nuremberg from the 27th to 29th of September 2016.

Indonesia's peat restoration agency is advocating for greater foreign investment to fill an expected funding shortfall in the government's plan to rehabilitate more than 2 million hectares of peat across seven provinces.

Tolko Industries confirms that a letter of intent to buy the mill has been signed. Though it's far from a done deal, a potential sale could still save the operation before more than 300 layoffs are set to take effect on Dec. 2.

Coldwater announced that it has sold and completed the start-up of another PCA Dryer Passivation System at a board mill in the Southwest U.S.

Neenah Paper Inc. is closing its facility in Muhlenberg Township, Pennsylvania.

As the 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) begins in South Africa, EIA released new analysis revealing the nature and scale of a highly destructive trade in precious woods from Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

All employees at the mill were safely evacuated and there was no structural damage caused to the building.

Stora Enso announced Monday that it has appointed Malin Bendz as Executive Vice President, Human Resources and member of the Group Leadership Team

Digitization of the forest industry is on the rise. Usage of Södra's digital forestry application, the forest owner's app, has risen 30 percent in 2016.

Nearly 40 firefighters from five area departments battled a fire in the paper mill yard at the U.S. Gypsum facility that burned for 18 hours Sunday, according to Port Clinton Fire Chief Kent Johnson. No injuries were reported.

An economic blow to the the City of Merritt as Tolko Industries will close its Nicola Valley operation this December.