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OX Industries says it has purchased Philadelphia, PA-based equipment maker, Paco Winders Manufacturing, Inc.

Universal Forest Products Inc. said it is acquiring an Idaho-based distributor of products for building materials retailers and the manufactured housing and recreational vehicle industries.

The 38-year-old woman was working as a labourer in the paper mill where she was allegedly raped and murdered on Friday.

Business in Vancouver's 2016 list of the top 100 public companies in British Columbia reveals the stellar year enjoyed by the province's forestry companies in 2015.

Nippon Paper says it won't lay off employees when it buys Weyerhaeuser Co.'s liquid packaging plant in Longview this fall.

Soon, palm oil and forestry resource companies will be forbidden from starting any activities on any of their concessions that are idle, as the government plans to expand a moratorium on peatland use in a bid to curb the annual land and forest fires.

Talks between the United States and Canada on a long-running dispute over softwood lumber exports have bogged down amid "significant differences," the two nations said on Friday, potentially paving the way for a fresh round of lawsuits.

The plant will be close to industrial size and will be located at Sappi's Ngodwana Mill in South Africa. Start-up of the new plant is scheduled for the beginning of 2017.

CatchMark Timber Trust, Inc. says it has closed on its single, largest timberlands purchase since its listing on the NYSE -- the acquisition of 51,700 acres of prime timberlands in South Carolina for $100.7 million, excluding closing costs, in an off-market transaction from funds managed by Forest Investment Associates.

Marc Dube of Port Hawkesbury Paper said this week that poor market conditions for printing and writing-grade paper has led to the week-long shutdown.

Expera has not presented any formal plans on a specific use for the building, just the request to raise the roof and stack.

We talked last week about what is not in a contract and the premise that in the eyes of the law in most places, if money has exchanged hands you have a contract. This week I wanted to take a higher level look at what one might want to include in a contract. And, we'll further simplify it by focusing on a contract that is of the "time and material" variety...

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Quad/Graphics Inc. has agreed to pay $750,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that the firm violated security requirements involving personally identifiable information on contracts with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO).

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Stora Enso has inaugurated its new consumer board mill in Beihai, China. The mill started up in May and it is expected to reach full production within 18 to 24 months.

The $64 million investment includes new state-of-the-art converting lines that are scheduled for commissioning at the end of the first quarter of 2017.

Weyerhaeuser Co. announced this week that it will sell its Longview liquid packaging plant -- a major portion of the Longview operations -- to Nippon Paper Industries for $285 million.

It was announced this week that Toscotec will rebuild the dryer section of Smurfit Kappa Papelsa's PM 1 at its Barbosa mill in Colombia.

Sunbelt Forest Products announced this week the purchase of a pressure treated wood facility in Athens, Alabama, from Georgia-Pacific.

IP International Holdings, Inc, and International Paper Investments (Luxembourg), both group entities, have proposed acquisition of 20.05 percent and 54.95 percent shares in listed entity International Paper APPM Limited from IP Holdings Asia Singapore pte Holdings, Inc.

Egg cartons and cup carrier-maker Huhtamaki Lurgan expects to boost its output by up to 25 percent after shelling out £5 million installing new purpose built machinery.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation on Tuesday announced that Scott Usitalo has been named chief marketing officer, reporting to Tony Palmer, president of global brands and innovation.