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Rabin Worldwide, one of the partners in a joint venture that bought the Lincoln and Old Town mills, said it plans to put both facilities up for sale during a four-day auction in Bangor later this month.

This project will replace the legacy coal based power generation equipment with high efficiency natural gas fueled equipment.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has vetoed a bill that would have allowed KapStone Paper and Packaging to potentially make millions of dollars by selling renewable energy credits.

"After an exhaustive, but ultimately unsuccessful effort to find a buyer of our Wickliffe Mill, Verso has made the difficult decision to close the facility," said Verso President and CEO David J. Paterson.

Mondi on Monday said Russian authorities have started an investigation into its Russian business.

Boise Cascade Company announced that it has completed the acquisition of Georgia-Pacific LLC's engineered lumber production facilities located at Thorsby, Alabama and Roxboro, North Carolina for $215 million including closing date estimated working capital of $25 million which is subject to final adjustment.

Anthony Pratt calls it his "billion dollar hamburger". Aptly for the billionaire, the burger he refers to - a huge paper mill he opened on Friday in Valparaiso, Indiana - is the biggest bite Pratt has taken in the United States yet.

The paper machines were turned off early Thursday morning at the Whiting Paper Co. after a final run, ending the mill's 134-year history.

The divestment of Stora Enso's entire 80% shareholding in the Arapoti magazine paper mill in Brazil to Papeles Bio Bio, a Chilean paper producer, has been completed.

Nip Impressions 1st, PaperMoney 2nd.

Companies combine operations to form leading paper and packaging company in Mexico.

SCA announced that its divestment of its business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea for integration with Vinda International Holdings Limited is expected to close as of today, April 1.

Achieving a 50% reduction in fresh water consumption per ton of finished product by 2030 is an ambitious goal of Agenda 2020. The organization has released its 2016 research roadmap outlining priority research initiatives to achieve significant efficiencies in the use and re-use of water in pulp and paper mills en route to that goal.

It is Safety Month at Paperitalo Publications. Let's start off by understanding two things: (1) serious, sometimes fatal accidents occur in our mills today, this is not something that happens in the past or somewhere else and (2) what we tell our fellow employees, through words, deeds and actions is extremely important to conducting operations in a safe manner.

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Södra announced that it has acquired the remaining shares in Crown Timber Group Plc. Södra previously held approximately 20% of the shares in Crown Timber.

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A birthday or anniversary calls for cake, even if the honoree is a 115-year-old facility.

Smurfit Kappa's North American unit has bought two small packaging companies in California for an undisclosed sum.

A KapStone facility is missing 40-feet of wall after it was destroyed in a boiler plant explosion.

Union workers at an Iowa WestRock corrugated packaging company have been on strike for nearly a month now.

Both weapons were run through police computer systems and placed into evidence.