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The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and the Finnish state export credit agency Finnvera Oyj have signed a 9.5-year loan agreement on a $225 million (Euro 199 million) expansion of a eucalyptus pulp mill project in Brazil.

Pulp and paper supplier PT Bumi Mekar Hijau was ordered to pay the equivalent of $6 million by an appeals court in South Sumatra, in a reversal of an earlier decision that saw the firm cleared of wrongdoing.

A fire in the roof at Wausau Paper, an SCA company, caused about $1,000 in damages Thursday night, according to Middletown firefighters.

Coldwater has hired Tom Polaski as North American Wet End Applications Specialist.

Investigators with the Columbus (Ohio) Division of Fire say they have identified the origin of a four-alarm blaze at a WestRock facility, but not the exact cause.

Mohawk, North America's largest privately-owned manufacturer of fine papers, envelopes and specialty substrates for commercial and digital printing, is pleased to announce the following organizational changes and promotions.

The head of U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has called for hearings next month on the proposed merger between the DuPont Co. and Dow Chemical Co., as well as on broader issues of consolidation within the seed and chemical industry.

Catalyst Paper is installing a $500,000 pump system in Lake Cowichan to maintain minimum water levels required in the Cowichan River.

The biggest economic development deal in Chesterfield, Virginia's history appears to have fallen off schedule - so much so that the company, Tranlin Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of China-based Shandong Tranlin Paper Co., has deferred accepting millions in state grants tied to the project.

As Corruption Month 2016 comes to a close, Pulp Rats Vel and Hae relate their experiences to Great Grandmother and the rest of the council...

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England has voted to exit the EU. Our fearless Paperitalo Publications leader Jim Thompson wrote his thoughts on the impact we may feel in the presidential election this November. I hope his predictions come true...

Following a six-month investigation, Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) enforcement agents arrested two men on multiple felony charges.

Verso Corporation has introduced Life, Liberty® and the Pursuit of Great Paper, a new promotion for its Liberty® coated web paper line.

The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) approved without restrictions, the partial spin-off of the assets of Florestal Vale do Corisco, company currently controlled by Klabin, with a 51% stake in the share capital, and the Arauco Forest with 49%.

A migrant laborer from Bihar was reportedly shredded in a machine used to make pulp in a paper mill located near Bhavani Sagar on Tuesday morning. Barring a small bone and a few pieces of the T-shirt that he wore, his entire body had turned into pulp.

Today about 85% of SCA's sales derives from the hygiene business and about 15% from the forest products business.

The Weyerhaeuser Company closed two lumber mills in Columbia Falls last week, ending several decades of production.

Tolko Industries Ltd. is shuttering its operations in The Pas as of Dec. 2, throwing more than 300 people out of work.

Three people died and nineteen were injured on Monday after a high intensity blast at Vishal Paper Mill.

Emergency crews say at least one person was airlifted from an International Paper mill in Texas on Saturday evening.

Intertek, a quality assurance provider to industries worldwide, has supported Frugalpac, a pioneering UK packaging firm, in developing a recyclable coffee cup. The innovative cup is now being trialled by some of the world's major coffee brands.

SCA will integrate its Business Unit MEIA (Middle East, India and Africa) into Business Unit Consumer Goods to leverage our scale and capabilities and to further increase efficiency. Combining these organizations will help to capture synergies and facilitate best practice sharing within the consumer business.

If one accepts a traditional definition of corruption as "abusing power or taking actions illegally for personal gain," it could be argued that the paper industry is no different from any other business in this regard. However, in spite of many shared organizational features, each business environment has its own unique circumstances, which may make it more appealing for personnel to consider a corrupt practice.