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International packaging company Orora Limited announced it has invested more than $25 million to support its growing New Zealand customer base and increase its manufacturing capabilities.

A reward of up to $5,000 may be available for anyone who can help authorities find the people responsible for setting a fire at the Sonoco Products paper mill in Holyoke earlier this month.

An Auburn, Maine mill is closing its doors Friday. The company that owns Cascades Auburn Fiber says it is shutting down due to poor sales.

Verso Corporation on Friday announced that the company and its subsidiaries have emerged from bankruptcy following a successful financial restructuring and confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan of reorganization by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Xerox Corp. privately rejected a bid to merge its document business with R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., according to people familiar with the matter.

UPM-Kymmene, the world's biggest producer of graphic papers such as newsprint, says it is in talks with Uruguay on developing what would be its second pulp mill in the country, the company said on Wednesday.

Today the number of regulations with which a business or even a homeowner must comply has reached an incalculable quantity. It is as if one were reading the Book of Leviticus and attempting to understand how one properly prepares for the Jewish Sabbath--times ten million. The regulators, bureaucrats and their contractors see it to be their sacred duty to write just one more regulation. This leaves us with an impossible task--how to comply with all the regulations and the new ones constantly being foisted upon us...

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LandVest has been retained by Rayonier as transaction manager for the sale of the Evergreen Timberlands, 62,160 acres located in South Alabama and Mississippi.

Sonoco ThermoSafe announced that it has launched a robust and efficient line of 3-Day and 5-Day temperature controlled packaging solutions for the distribution of pharmaceutical and biological products.

Valmet says it has received repeat orders of advanced process control (APC) systems and analyzers from Nippon Paper in Japan.

Venezuela's government said it occupied Kimberly Clark Corp.'s local plant, days after the diapers maker had halted operations because of shortages of raw materials in the crisis-stricken country.

The aggregate purchase price for the transaction was CHF 44,500,000, or approximately CDN$59 million.

Central National Gottesman's Lindenmeyr Munroe division will acquire the business of New York-based Graphic Paper, a wholesale distributor of fine printing paper and converted products.

The sludge dewatering line is a part of the upgrade to the effluent plant at the Halden mill.

Italian manufacturer Sofidel has broken ground on a $300 million tissue paper facility.

Xerox, which plans to separate into two companies by the end of the year, is in talks to acquire R.R. Donnelley & Sons, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Kimberly-Clark Corp. says it is halting its Venezuela operations due to the deteriorating economic situation that includes soaring consumer prices and shortages of basic goods.

Federal court documents reveal that the banker accused of conspiring with a De Pere businessman to illegally funnel loans has agreed to plead guilty and will testify against Ron Van Den Heuvel.

Faculty from North Carolina State University and from Western Michigan University will provide the course instruction for a Principles and Practice of Paper Coatings course in August.

PCA has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of TimBar Corporation, a large independent corrugated products producer, in a cash-free, debt-free transaction for a cash purchase price of $386 million.

The Forest Practices Board says it will examine the activities of Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (Canfor) on tree farm licence 14, in the Rocky Mountain Resource District, during the week of July 11, 2016.