Expera Specialty Solutions in September announced its plan to close the pulp mill around the end of 2015, about a year after it bought the facility for $10.5 million in a bankruptcy auction.
Dow Chemical and DuPont, two of the biggest and oldest companies in the American chemical industry, are in talks to merge in what would be one of the largest transactions in a year full of huge deals.
Attorneys defending a $5 million class action lawsuit against Glatfelter and its Chillicothe paper mill say those bringing the suit have not provided enough facts and specifics about their claims to justify the case going to trial.
Rengo announced that its consolidated subsidiary, Osaka Paper has decided to withdraw from the newsprint and printing paper business at the end of March 2016.
Tranlin Inc.'s $2 billion paper plant in Chesterfield County, scheduled to be fully operational in 2020, will start partial production as early as 2018, a company official said this week.
Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. and Eastman Chemical Company have settled their legal dispute and entered into a new cellulose specialties purchase and sale agreement.
A representative with American Iron and Metal says construction crews will be taking down the structural walls of warehouses first and then move to the remaining buildings.
