Recent Articles

Verso Corporation has introduced Life, Liberty® and the Pursuit of Great Paper, a new promotion for its Liberty® coated web paper line.

The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) approved without restrictions, the partial spin-off of the assets of Florestal Vale do Corisco, company currently controlled by Klabin, with a 51% stake in the share capital, and the Arauco Forest with 49%.

A migrant laborer from Bihar was reportedly shredded in a machine used to make pulp in a paper mill located near Bhavani Sagar on Tuesday morning. Barring a small bone and a few pieces of the T-shirt that he wore, his entire body had turned into pulp.

Today about 85% of SCA's sales derives from the hygiene business and about 15% from the forest products business.

The Weyerhaeuser Company closed two lumber mills in Columbia Falls last week, ending several decades of production.

Tolko Industries Ltd. is shuttering its operations in The Pas as of Dec. 2, throwing more than 300 people out of work.

Three people died and nineteen were injured on Monday after a high intensity blast at Vishal Paper Mill.

Emergency crews say at least one person was airlifted from an International Paper mill in Texas on Saturday evening.

Intertek, a quality assurance provider to industries worldwide, has supported Frugalpac, a pioneering UK packaging firm, in developing a recyclable coffee cup. The innovative cup is now being trialled by some of the world's major coffee brands.

SCA will integrate its Business Unit MEIA (Middle East, India and Africa) into Business Unit Consumer Goods to leverage our scale and capabilities and to further increase efficiency. Combining these organizations will help to capture synergies and facilitate best practice sharing within the consumer business.

If one accepts a traditional definition of corruption as "abusing power or taking actions illegally for personal gain," it could be argued that the paper industry is no different from any other business in this regard. However, in spite of many shared organizational features, each business environment has its own unique circumstances, which may make it more appealing for personnel to consider a corrupt practice.

Louisiana is home to a significant portion of the North American pulp and paper industry, both mills and suppliers. When I think back to the business I have done over the decades in Louisiana, the volume is staggering (I received my first project in Louisiana in 1979 in Bogalusa). Right now several of our clients call Louisiana home as well as do many of our friends.

Georgia-Pacific announced Friday that it has contributed $50,000 to the Baton Rouge Area Foundation Flood Relief Fund for southeast Louisiana flood recovery efforts.

Resolute Forest Products will contribute $3.5 million to host pilot plant, while the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation adds $4.5 million.

"I did not relate this story to the council, but I wanted to share it with you readers of Mr. Jim's column. It happened in a place where I lived and it is a bit complicated, for I do not understand all the things the Big Things do. Apparently, from the best I can gather, the Big Things make paper products for something called money. They hand other Big Things products they make and these Big Things give them this money in return. Why, I don't understand, but that is the way things seem to work..." Fos the Pulp Rat continues his tale.

Listen to this column in your favorite format

iTunes or MP3

Despite the continuing reduction in demand for communications grades of paper, world demand for bleached kraft pulp seems to keep growing, but we are still seeing contraction rather than expansion in North American mills.

Maine's congressional delegation asks for help devising a plan to encourage economic growth, but Gov. LePage opts out.

Domtar Corporation announced that it had agreed to purchase the privately-held Home Delivery Incontinent Supplies Co., a leading, national direct-to-consumer provider of adult incontinence and related products for a total cash consideration of $45 million with a possible earn-out payment of up to $10 million.

More than a year after announcing plans to build a $2 billion, 850-acre paper mill along the James River in eastern Chesterfield, Tranlin has yet to acquire the biggest piece of property needed for the project.

Appvion Inc. has introduced additional sheeted versions of its Triumph treated and coated high-speed inkjet papers.

Catalyst Paper Corporation announced that its four largest shareholders holding or controlling approximately 79% of its outstanding common shares, including accounts or funds managed by Mudrick Capital Management, L.P., Cyrus Capital Partners, LP, Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. and Stonehill Capital Management LLC, have amended the previously announced support agreement with Kejriwal Group International ("KGI") and accordingly filed amended Schedule 13Ds with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Boise Cascade will be taking up to seven days of maintenance downtime the week of September 4 at the company's plywood mill in Elgin, Oregon. The company's mill in Medford, Oregon, will take up to five days of maintenance downtime, also during the week of September 4.