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Cascades Inc. announced that Norampac, its containerboard packaging division, has successfully completed a transaction with US-based company Rand-Whitney Container LLC for the acquisition of its plant in Newtown, Connecticut, in exchange for certain assets of its Norampac New England plant, located in Thompson, Connecticut. The Newtown plant manufactures corrugated packaging.

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Smurfit Kappa has released a report that highlights the progress the company has made on its environmental and social responsibility promises.

Resolute Forest Products Inc filed a racketeering lawsuit against Greenpeace and some of its associates for its campaign criticizing the company's forestry practices. The Montreal, Quebec-based company said in a statement on Tuesday that the complaint, filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District Of Georgia, sought compensatory and other damages.

A major fire was reported at the paper mill of Suzano Papel e Celulose , in Suzano, in the Greater São Paulo, late on Tuesday night.

Former Georgia-Pacific CEO and Virginia Tech President T. Marshall Hahn died Sunday at the age of 89.

Fibria SA, the world's largest producer of eucalyptus pulp, raised the output forecast for its Horizonte 2 plant.

Stora Enso says it has signed an agreement to divest its Kabel coated mechanical paper mill in Germany to Hagen-Kabel Pulp & Paper GmbH, owned by a German based investor group.

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The Big Island Mill has been making more than paper since the late 1800s. As one of the longest continuously producing paper mills in the United States, the company has sustained the community of Big Island for generations.

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The shutdown involves interrupting paper production to perform the maintenance required to ensure the equipment's proper functioning and safety as well as the quality of the production process.

SCA announced Monday afternoon that it has been fined for improper market conduct by the Spanish National Commission for Markets and Competition.

AR Packaging announced today that funds advised by CVC Capital Partners have signed a binding agreement to acquire ÅR Packaging Group AB. Under the terms of the transaction, CVC will acquire 100% of the company from its current owners, Ahlstrom Capital and Accent Equity.

Australia-based Licella Fibre Fuels Pty Ltd. and Canada-based Canfor Pulp Products Inc., through its subsidiary Canfor Pulp Ltd., have signed an agreement to form a joint-venture: Licella Pulp Joint Venture.

According to a WARN notice filed with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the jobs will be cut as of July 16. Positions eliminated include cutting and press operators, as well as inspectors, laborers and others.

Finnish-headquartered food and drink packaging giant Huhtamaki has funneled more than half-a-billion dollars through Dublin-registered company Huhtamaki Ireland Unlimited as part of a complicated intra-company 'hybrid loan' finance structure involving wholly-owned subsidiaries in Luxembourg, Netherlands, Hungary, Switzerland and America.

SCA announced Friday afternoon that Productos Familia S.A., based in Colombia, of which SCA owns 50% of the shares, has been found guilty in an anti-trust inquiry related to tissue products conducted by the Colombian competition authority.

This week Pratt Industries announced a major expansion to its American paper and packaging empire with the acquisition of a large Minnesota-based company. Pratt paid almost $100 million for Minnesota Corrugated Box Inc.

Stora Enso says its consumer board machine at Beihai mill in China successfully started production on 26 May.

The Prince Albert Pulp Mill might begin producing raw kraft pulp product as soon as 2020.

Resolute Forest Products has been fined $55,000 after a worker was injured at its Iroquois Falls paper mill in 2014. Resolute's Iroquois Falls mill has since closed, shuttering its doors permanently in December 2014, putting 180 people out of work.

De Pere businessman Ron Van Den Heuvel, the founder of Green Box NA Green Bay LLC, his wife Kelly Van Den Heuvel, and banker Paul Piikkila all pleaded not guilty to charges of bank fraud in federal court. Ron Van Den Heuvel is charged with seven counts of executing a bank fraud scheme and five counts of making false statements to influence a bank loan. If convicted, he faces up to 30 years in prison and up to $1 million in fines on each count.