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Firefighters on Saturday were still trying to put out smouldering material at a Mississauga paper mill, but have scaled back their efforts after a large blaze first began outside the plant on Friday.

Kotkamills' new 400,000 tonnes/year consumer board machine, BM2, has started production in Kotka, Finland. A range of folding boxboards will be produced under the brand name AEGLE and a range of food service boards under the brand name ISLA.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro visited the recently-seized installations of the Kimberly Clark corporation late last week, where he committed funds to ensure the operation of the facility in an effort to help make important personal hygiene goods available.

Huhtamaki has acquired 51% of Val Pack Solutions Private Limited, a privately held paper cup manufacturer based in Mumbai, India.

Pratt Industries has been named one of America's largest private companies by Forbes magazine.

A new survey commissioned by Two Sides and conducted by Toluna Inc. reveals how U.S. consumers view corporate initiatives forcing people into digital-only communication by eliminating paper-based options. The survey also provides insight into consumer opinions on the environmental impacts of digital versus paper-based communications.

One employee and two firefighters were injured during the battle to extinguish an intensely smoky fire at Palatka's Georgia-Pacific plant Wednesday evening,

What is the impact of your mill on the world as a whole? The truth is we don't know--no one knows because there are simply bits of science yet to be discovered. It is likely, however, that the impact is not as great as environmental NGOs say it is and not as little as your CEO may concede...

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Shareholders for agriculture and chemicals companies DuPont and Dow Chemical have approved their merger. After it's complete, the century-old companies plan to break up into three parts.

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Sun Paper Industry of China says the planned early 2017 construction start for a $1.3 billion superproject in Clark County, Arkansas will likely be pushed back because of ongoing pre-engineering and feasibility studies for the bio-product paper mill.

Employees of Cachar Paper Mill, a unit of the public-sector Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited, began an indefinite hunger-strike on Tuesday seeking revival of production at the mill.

Verso Corp.'s stock was trading once again Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange following the paper company's emergence from bankruptcy.

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The KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. mill in North Charleston, South Carolina is getting a new wood-chip supplier in Carolina Chips, which said Tuesday it will invest $32 million.

Group says more than 130 members of Teamsters Local 284 have been on strike for more than two months against the giant multinational corporation, International Paper.

UPM says it has entered into a conditional agreement with Blue Energy Europe (BEE) for the supply of heat for its Hürth mill in the Cologne area in Germany. The deal is expected to be finalised during the first half of 2017 at the latest.

Andritz says it has received an order from S.A. Industrias Celulosa Aragonesa (SAICA) to supply a FibreFlow drum pulping system for its paper mill in El Burgo de Ebro, Spain.

A 270,000-square-foot box and paper manufacturing facility on Jacksonville's Northside will close in September and will result in 127 workers who will be laid off.

Amcor Flexibles says it is excited to announce the addition of a new press in Milwaukee, Wisc., allowing flexographic printing, gravure coating and slitting to occur in a single pass. The additional capacity from the press and slitter will support demand for high-quality coated healthcare grade paper and film.

A malfunctioning boiler started the fire, according to a Sappi spokesperson.

President says: "The ones who must go to jail will go to jail, no matter where they are..."

Kadant Johnson Inc., a subsidiary of Kadant Inc., announced the global launch of a new multi-passage rotary union line for power, fluid, and data transfer.