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A heavy-machine operator was using a bulldozer to pile up hog fuel when the machine fell off the high end of the pile, the coroners service said.

Following Lumber Liquidators' sentencing hearing, EIA has produced a short video summarizing the case that began with the EIA undercover investigation that first exposed the company's illegal activities.

Industrial logging will be prohibited across 85 per cent of forested lands within B.C.'s Great Bear Rainforest, according to a long-awaited landmark agreement announced Monday in Vancouver by the province, First Nations, environmentalists and forest companies.

One worker was sent to the hospital Sunday night when a lotion coating machine caught fire at a Kimberly-Clark facility.

Resolute Forest Products will take downtime at its Comtois and St-Thomas stud mills in Quebec starting 5 February 2016. The company cited unfavorable market conditions, and plans to restart the mills as conditions allow.

After some slight year-end and holiday delays, the American Forest & Paper Association has published its production statistics for December 2015.

The annual net sales of the acquired business in 2014 were approximately Euro 21 million and it employs approximately 120 people in its manufacturing unit in the Prague area.

Resolute FP Canada Inc. pleaded guilty and has been fined $150,000 after a worker was burned following an explosion of wood dust.

The company stirred up controversy last year, when the SEC temporarily restricted the use of the paper producer's Singapore Green Label certification, after it emerged that there were alleged links to the Indonesian forest fires causing the transboundary haze.

Seven weeks after ending their 12-day strike, KapStone employees in Longview, Washington still are working without a contract.

The WestRock Newberg facility will permanently close and WestRock Co. officials say it will not reopen, a change from what until now had been described as an "indefinite idle" status.

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The Quad/Graphics facility prints advertisements inserted into newspapers.

This expanded offering follows on the heels of Neenah's recent acquisition of FiberMark.

The Crofton Mill has been shut down until further notice after an employee died in an industrial accident late Wednesday.

Where will we see automation next? Driverless trucks. They are less than five years away, folks. You can take it to the bank. The question is, will you be ready for them in your mill?

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The same company marketing machinery at the shuttered Lincoln paper mill purchased the Old Town mill from Expera on Wednesday. The company says it's had interest in a wide range of uses for the pulp mill.

CEO Ed Breen told investors and analysts that DuPont now expects to cut $730 million in costs this year through global layoffs and consolidated operations.

The Kingsport operation began in 1916, when local businessmen constructed the mill, known as the Kingsport Pulp Co., to process fiber from a wood alcohol extract operation.

The former FutureMark Alsip mill, which was idled in 2014 and later sold, has begun production, according to sources.

P.H. Glatfelter was ordered to pay two people a combined $180,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit, according to a news release from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Sustainable Corrugated, a subsidiary of Jackson Paper Manufacturing Co. in Sylva, N.C., will invest $15 million in new machinery and inventory.