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The town of Jay, Maine has agreed to lower three prior years of disputed property taxes for paper mill owner Verso Corp. and set a cap on its gross tax bills through 2020, delivering the bankrupt papermaker at least $4 million in future tax credits.

Chinese pulp and paper manufacturer Sun Paper will spend more than $1 billion to build a mill in Arkadelphia that will employ about 250 people, Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the company's chairman and founder, Li Hongxin, announced this week.

Nippon Paper Industries will begin tests next spring on a process it plans to use to mass-produce efficient-burning wood pellets as a biomass fuel for electricity generation starting in fiscal 2018.

A Wisconsin paper mill faces federal fines in the death of an employee last October.

RR Donnelley plans to permanently close a plant in Portland, resulting in the loss of 113 jobs.

Xerium Technologies, Inc. says it plans to establish a new roll cover and mechanical services facility located in Concepción, Chile.

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

Mondi Group announced that is has completed the acquisition of SIMET S.A. The corrugated plant, to be called Mondi Simet, is located in Grabonóg, Poland.

LEIPA will convert the mill into liner production. The planned production capacity would be approximately 450,000 tonnes of liner annually.

John Panichella, President and CEO of Solenis, gave the keynote address at the annual Miami Paper Science and Engineering Foundation Student Recognition Banquet held this month on the Miami University campus in Oxford, Ohio.

Judge issues injunction against Clearwater barring it from retaliating against employees who file OSHA complaints.

The former sales director at Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC said he could have restarted the mill and brought back about 100 jobs if the owners of the mill's assets had accepted his offer rather than focus on making a quick buck during an auction this week.

WestRock Company on Friday announced that its Board of Directors has approved the completion of the separation of its specialty chemicals business from the remaining businesses of WestRock to form Ingevity Corporation.

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The Australian unit of Delaware-based Solenis has agreed to buy the Nuplex assets, and the deal is expected to settle on June 30, Nuplex said in a statement.

This month, we detail two projects that highlight some signs of renaissance in the Canadian pulp industry.

A fire broke out at the R.R. Donnelley facility in Danville, Kentucky at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

This month 10 years ago, Weyerhaeuser closed the Prince Albert Pulp Mill, costing 700 people their jobs.

Consumers for Paper Options, a coalition advocating for access to important paper-based services and information, today (April 20) applauded the passage of a congressional resolution calling on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to partially reinstate the mailing of paper-based tax instructions.

Bemis Company, Inc. says it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the medical device packaging operations and related value-added services of SteriPack Group, a global manufacturer of sterile packaging solutions for medical device and pharmaceutical applications.