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Oji Holdings says it foresees demand continuing to decrease so the company has decided to make this closure in order to further reduce costs and strengthen its international competitiveness.

With other mills in Maine struggling to survive, Woodland Pulp LLC indicated that it is nearly halfway done with its $120 million expansion.

A Wisconsin man died Wednesday in a workplace accident at a Bolingbrook, Illinois RR Donnelley warehouse, authorities stated, when he was pinned between two semitrailers.

For the forest, pulp and paper industry, net benefits from the TPP are difficult to identify.

Georgia-Pacific plans to add hundreds of jobs downtown as part of a significant renovation of its namesake Atlanta tower and expansion of its corporate hub.

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Quad/Graphics has released "Millennials: An Emerging Consumer Powerhouse," a report spotlighting best methods for marketers, advertisers and media partners to capture the attention of the connected Millennial market, defined as those born between 1981 and 1997.

We humans have a propensity for collecting things; it is in our nature. There is an entire industry that has developed in the last three or four decades to cater to this mental disorder--the self-storage industry. You drive by self-storage units all the time--how many of them do you think hold contents whose value equals just one year's rental on the unit? Just because we are in the corporate world does not mean we do not make poor decisions about keeping junk.

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Six months after mill workers walked out, a federal judge is considering whether KapStone acted legally when it fired four striking union pickets.

Buckeye Corrugated Inc., based out of Akron, Ohio, announced that it has acquired Drake Alliance Corporation (known as Drake Container) located in Houston, Texas.

International Paper announced that it has entered into a binding agreement with Holmen Paper to purchase Holmen's newsprint mill in Madrid, Spain, and intends to convert the facility to produce recycled containerboard.

The federal government and a Georgia papermaker are proposing a $1.6 million settlement of a 16-year-old, air-pollution lawsuit against a western Maryland paper mill.

The lead contractor overseeing demolition of the former local paper mill appears to no longer be involved with the project and efforts are being made to find a new firm to take its place, according to a town official.

International Paper on Monday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its corrugated packaging business in China and Southeast Asia to Xiamen Bridge Hexing Equity Investment Partnership Enterprise. International Paper's corrugated packaging business in Asia has 18 plants and a workforce of approximately 3,000 employees.

UPM-Kymmene Inc. and Northern SC Paper Corp., a subsidiary of the New York Times Company, announced Monday the dissolution of their partnership, Madison Paper Industries, in the USA.

No injuries were reported and the fire is under investigation.

A criminal case against Gennady Tikhonov, an executive of the Baikal pulp and paper mill charged with polluting the Baikal Lake, has commenced.

Major companies operating in Canada which could be affected if the U.S. lobby pushed for higher duties on lumber include Canfor Corp, Tembec, Resolute Forest Products and West Fraser Timber Co.

Klabin has announced the startup of its new pulp mill located in Ortigueira, Paraná. The company produced the first pulp bale at the Puma Unit, which already holds Chain of Custody certification from Forest Stewardship Council.

A group of leading forestry and agriculture companies, NGOs and other partners announced on Friday the formation of the Fire-Free Alliance, a voluntary, multi-stakeholder platform to aid in the resolution of land and forest fires in Indonesia.

In decades past, in the United States, engineering students came off the farm. It was often a first step up for farm family children to go to engineering school. I was a classic example. I left the farm and became a mechanical engineer. Today, entry level personnel, even if they are trained engineers, often do not have the practical background we used to have...

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About 1,000 people had worked at the mill in 2000, when it was owned and operated by Champion International. A series of industrial owners had made paper at the site since 1930.