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The KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. mill in North Charleston, South Carolina is getting a new wood-chip supplier in Carolina Chips, which said Tuesday it will invest $32 million.

Group says more than 130 members of Teamsters Local 284 have been on strike for more than two months against the giant multinational corporation, International Paper.

UPM says it has entered into a conditional agreement with Blue Energy Europe (BEE) for the supply of heat for its Hürth mill in the Cologne area in Germany. The deal is expected to be finalised during the first half of 2017 at the latest.

Andritz says it has received an order from S.A. Industrias Celulosa Aragonesa (SAICA) to supply a FibreFlow drum pulping system for its paper mill in El Burgo de Ebro, Spain.

A 270,000-square-foot box and paper manufacturing facility on Jacksonville's Northside will close in September and will result in 127 workers who will be laid off.

Amcor Flexibles says it is excited to announce the addition of a new press in Milwaukee, Wisc., allowing flexographic printing, gravure coating and slitting to occur in a single pass. The additional capacity from the press and slitter will support demand for high-quality coated healthcare grade paper and film.

A malfunctioning boiler started the fire, according to a Sappi spokesperson.

President says: "The ones who must go to jail will go to jail, no matter where they are..."

Kadant Johnson Inc., a subsidiary of Kadant Inc., announced the global launch of a new multi-passage rotary union line for power, fluid, and data transfer.

International packaging company Orora Limited announced it has invested more than $25 million to support its growing New Zealand customer base and increase its manufacturing capabilities.

A reward of up to $5,000 may be available for anyone who can help authorities find the people responsible for setting a fire at the Sonoco Products paper mill in Holyoke earlier this month.

An Auburn, Maine mill is closing its doors Friday. The company that owns Cascades Auburn Fiber says it is shutting down due to poor sales.

Verso Corporation on Friday announced that the company and its subsidiaries have emerged from bankruptcy following a successful financial restructuring and confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan of reorganization by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Xerox Corp. privately rejected a bid to merge its document business with R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., according to people familiar with the matter.

UPM-Kymmene, the world's biggest producer of graphic papers such as newsprint, says it is in talks with Uruguay on developing what would be its second pulp mill in the country, the company said on Wednesday.

Today the number of regulations with which a business or even a homeowner must comply has reached an incalculable quantity. It is as if one were reading the Book of Leviticus and attempting to understand how one properly prepares for the Jewish Sabbath--times ten million. The regulators, bureaucrats and their contractors see it to be their sacred duty to write just one more regulation. This leaves us with an impossible task--how to comply with all the regulations and the new ones constantly being foisted upon us...

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LandVest has been retained by Rayonier as transaction manager for the sale of the Evergreen Timberlands, 62,160 acres located in South Alabama and Mississippi.

Sonoco ThermoSafe announced that it has launched a robust and efficient line of 3-Day and 5-Day temperature controlled packaging solutions for the distribution of pharmaceutical and biological products.

Valmet says it has received repeat orders of advanced process control (APC) systems and analyzers from Nippon Paper in Japan.

Venezuela's government said it occupied Kimberly Clark Corp.'s local plant, days after the diapers maker had halted operations because of shortages of raw materials in the crisis-stricken country.