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Domtar Corp. announced Wednesday its Kingsport, Tenn. paper mill is being idled to reduce inventory.

Eight awarded prestigious Williams Leadership Scholarships.

SCA has been identified as a global leader for its strategies and actions in response to climate change and has been awarded a position on the Climate A List by CDP, the international not-for-profit that drives sustainable economies.

SCA President and CEO Magnus Groth to address the power of public-private partnerships in achieving the Global Agenda and advancing hygiene awareness and standards globally.

Ahlstrom will invest into engine and industrial filtration product capabilities at its Madisonville plant in Kentucky, USA. The total investment is approximately Euro 23 million and it will be completed during the first half of 2018.

The blaze broke out near machinery around paper bales off a loading dock. Crews were on the scene for about two hours.

Duluth Mayor Emily Larson announced Tuesday that her administration will ask the City Council next week to amend its ordinance which raises the city's electric utility franchise fee from 1 percent to 3 percent starting next year, bending to the complaints from the Verso paper mill that said the higher fee could force its closure.

Enviva Partners, LP announced that Enviva Wilmington Holdings, LLC (the "Hancock JV"), a joint venture between an affiliate of Enviva Holdings, LP and affiliates of John Hancock Life Insurance Company, has offered to sell the entity which owns the wood pellet production plant in Sampson County, North Carolina, along with a 10-year, 420,000 metric ton per year ("MTPY") off-take contract with an affiliate of DONG Energy, to the Partnership.

SCA announced that it has joined the Circular Economy 100 (CE100), an Ellen MacArthur Foundation program established to enable organizations to develop new circular opportunities.

Beginning in June, Twin Rivers plant released chlorine dioxide gas five times. This weekend, the company apologized.

10 fire departments responded to a fire at the Georgia-Pacific OSB facility in Gladys, Virginia.

Quick work by firefighters saved the day for a Universal Forest Products facility this past week.

An industrial dryer fire early Friday at a WestRock facility was quickly extinguished by Battle Creek, Michigan firefighters.

Catalyst Paper Corporation announced that Sunvault Energy Inc. and Aboriginal Power Corp. have discontinued the lawsuit previously commenced against Catalyst.

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Pratt Industries announced that it has set a company production record recently when the company's four, 100% recycled paper mills combined to produce more than 5,000 tons of the "industry's best paper" for the first time in a single day.

Solenis has completed acquisition of all shares of Nopco Holding AS and its subsidiaries.

CFO Carol L. Roberts and SVP William Hoel to Retire in Early 2017, Glenn Landau to become Chief Financial Officer

Federal prosecutors added multiple charges against businessman Ron Van Den Heuvel, the founder of Green Box NA Green Bay LLC, who is facing bank fraud conspiracy charges.