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The body part, which police haven't identified, was found by workers at Resolute Forest Products in an outdoor pond of water and chemicals at the company's facility.

WG Anderson is a premier folding carton manufacturer with a focus on store branded food and consumer products markets. The company operates two world-class sheet-fed folding carton converting facilities located in Hamel, Minnesota and Newton, Iowa.

The new PCC plant is scheduled to start production in Q1/2017 with a capacity of 150,000 dry metric tons per year.

Walter Schalka, CEO, will temporarily assume responsibility for the Operations Department.

I once worked for a company that was proud of its capital projects and how the completion of such projects added to the assets of the company. The next company I worked for was proud of its return on investment (ROI) and had a philosophy of investing as little as possible in capital projects, for such investments drove down the ROI. This seems like a conundrum, but there are always other details that need to be explained to understand such matters...

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Two fire engines were dispatched to a Kimberly-Clark facility at around 8 p.m. Wednesday night after a fire broke out in a machine used to cut the large paper rolls into smaller, toilet rolls.

Production will end around the end of April 2016. The company will repurpose the site.

The desire to operate with well-defined and controlled paper machine wet-end chemistry is not new, but the topic seemed to attract increased attention beginning with the large scale conversion to alkaline papers. The conversion brought changes in fiber furnishes, fillers, retention aids, drainage aids, dyes and manufacturing methods, which resulted in the need for a better understanding of the entire wet-end operation.

The Montville facility, which produces about 166,000 tons of corrugated packaging per year, was temporarily shut down in October.

The mill, which is operated by a subsidiary of OKI Pulp & Paper Mills, has been touted to be the largest in Asia, boasting up to two million tons of pulp in annual capacity.

The cold, cold ground has figured largely in the titles of two popular songs, by Tom Waits and Hank Williams Jr., and a novel by Adrian McKinty. Now climatologists are saying that major shares of the world's energy sources--especially coal--must remain domiciled in the cold, cold ground for there to be any chance of not over-warming Planet Earth.

Sonoco invested $12 million to build the new Innovative Packaging Solutions research and development studio at its Hartsville, S.C. headquarters.

Marc-André Dépin is announcing his decision to step down as President and CEO of the Norampac Group. Charles Malo is succeeding him as President and Chief Operating Officer.

The transaction is expected to close on 1 February 2016. SCA is the majority shareholder in Vinda, one of China's largest hygiene companies.

Colorpak operates three folding carton facilities that convert approximately 38,000 tons of paperboard annually into folding cartons for the food, beverage and consumer product markets.

UPM has inaugurated its newly revamped Kymi pulp mill in Kuusankoski following a EUR 160 million investment in production expansion.

The company is increasing its production services in the Los Angeles marketplace by expanding the company's Vernon, California, facility.

Firefighters are at the Verso paper mill in Jay for a reported chemical fire.

Kruger's Memphis mill just three years ago completed a $350 million expansion and upgrade. Kruger officials indicate that their Memphis facility could be expanded yet again.

Not only does Staten Island have great pizza, it now has its own branded pizza boxes.

Production has been suspended indefinitely at Kruger Inc.'s Gatineau mill following an intense fire early Saturday.