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A fire in a conveyor belt system at the Wisconsin Rapids Verso Paper mill did significant damage to the plant over the weekend, according to a fire department captain.

Graphic Packaging International, Inc. has agreed to acquire the converting assets of Wayne, New Jersey based Metro Packaging & Imaging, Inc., a printed folding carton producer primarily servicing the food and away-from-home end markets through strong sheet-fed and web press capabilities.

After the closing, Grupo Gondi will have 13 plants including three WestRock corrugated packaging facilities in Mexico.

International Paper's Maysville mill recently achieved a significant safety milestone by surpassing an entire year without an Occupational Safety and Health Administration recordable safety incident, company officials said.

After coming to a halt earlier this month, demolition work at the former Verso Paper mill has yet to resume, according to a town official.

Domtar Corp. was not overtaxed after its Port Edwards paper mill shut down in 2008, a state appeals court ruled this week, marking another loss for the company as it challenges more than $1 million in property taxes.

A worker at the Harmac Pacific pulp mill near Nanaimo has died after the wood chip pile he was standing on collapsed.

The group of asset liquidators who bought equipment at the shuttered Lincoln Paper and Tissue mill have acquired the bankrupt company's trademarks, patents and other intellectual property for $75,000.

International Paper Co. has granted $1 million for disaster relief caused by flooding in Louisiana and Texas.

Irish international packaging giant Smurfit Kappa has confirmed its plan to move its primary stock market listing to London.

The company has described Richmond as its "principal executive office" and Norcross as its "principal operating office" in reports to shareholders.

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company has announced the appointments of the Board leadership and Chief Executive Officers of LSC Communications, Inc., Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc. and R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company to be effective as of the consummation of the previously announced spinoff transactions which the company expects to complete in October 2016.

No matter the department, people who love their jobs and care for the assets are the best inside-the-fence chance your mill has at succeeding.
This goes double for maintenance.

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Every type of organization should encourage employees to be innovative. To accomplish this, the business must be willing to take risks. Innovation is an on-going process; thus the risks associated with it are also continuous in nature.

Northern Pulp will be fined $225,000 after effluent from its plant leaked into a local river.

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

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The unit will focus on biomedical applications for the cellulose nanofibril technology developed by UPM.

A reduction of $64 million in valuation means $1.2 million less in taxes in the coming year to save jobs.

LePage says high energy costs and regulations are hastening the demise of the state's once-dominant industry.

Headquartered in Minneapolis, C.J. Duffey has served the Midwest print community since its founding in 1945.

Sofidel UK, in Hamilton, suffered "significant flood damage" at one of its sites in Lancaster.

Mondi said the European Commission issued a statement last week about unannounced inspections on several companies in the kraft paper and industrial bags sector.