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Boise Cascade Company announced that Nathan Sikes will be the new Senior Vice President of Western Operations for their Building Materials Distribution (BMD) division, effective February 24, 2025. In this role, Nathan will be responsible for BMD's facilities and door shops located in the Western and Pacific Regions.

It followed on from him winning 'Irish Times Business Person of the Month' in July when Smurfit Kappa and WestRock combined to become the largest packaging company in the world. Smurfit Westrock made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on 8th July following the historic transaction.

Veritiv Operating Company, a leader in specialty packaging distribution, announced that it has achieved a Silver Medal from EcoVadis, a global leader in business sustainability assessments. Veritiv is transforming the idea of sustainability into practical growth, profitability, and long-term success for customers - all while leaving a lighter footprint on the planet.

Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc., the oldest continuously operating paper mill in the US and a leader in sustainable fiber-based solutions, is proud to introduce Renovo--a high-performance alternative to plastic gift cards. Renovo, Monadnock's 30 pt. Envi Paper Card, is made from 100% post-consumer waste (PCW) and engineered to deliver the same durability, print quality, and functionality as traditional gift cards, but with a significantly lower environmental impact.

GP PRO, a division of Georgia-Pacific and a leading maker of advanced dispensing solutions for commercial facilities, surveyed 200 maintainers working in U.S. facilities to gain insight into their work habits and mindset. The illuminating findings dispel many long-held misconceptions about maintainers and the work they perform.

In Ovar, Portugal, Valmet manufactures dryer fabrics used in board and paper production.

Toscotec has recently completed a dryer section rebuild including more than 10 TT SteelDryer cylinders at a leading American paper producer that remains confidential. This group has placed numerous repeat orders relating to four different production bases in the USA. In North America, Toscotec has installed more than 70 TT SteelDryers to date.

With the CleanLine Extract360, leading full-line supplier Voith is launching a new, highly effective fabric cleaning system for the dryer section of paper machines.

Rexcell Tissue & Airlaid started up PM1 after a complete rebuild of the drying section supplied by Toscotec at its Skåpafors mill in Sweden. With this successful project, Rexcell achieved the targets of substantially bringing down PM1's thermal energy consumption through the use of energy-efficient drying technology and increase the machine's production capacity.

First Quality Tissue Midwest will invest $984 million in the project and has committed to create more than 400 new jobs and $22.5 million in new annual payroll by 2032.

A fire was reported Sunday morning at the Procter & Gamble plant in Oxnard, resulting in apparent smoke inhalation for two workers who were taken to a local hospital for evaluation.

Suzano has announced another price increase for hardwood pulp. The latest initiative for March 2025 encompasses a $60/t price hike on the markets in Europe and North America, and a $20/t price hike in Asia.

Fire crews returned to the Weyerhaeuser Plant in Columbia Falls early Friday morning, Feb. 21, to extinguish a fire.

Paper and packaging company Mondi notified the European Union's merger watchdog of its plan to buy Schumacher Packaging's western European assets for 634 million euros ($660.8 million).

Firefighters arrived at the scene at 7:51 a.m. to find a large explosion had occurred, with fire spreading throughout the east end of the building. Multiple agencies from nearby cities also responded to the incident

Firefighters responded to a call of a fire at Cheney Pulp and Paper in Franklin at around 6:25 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Upon arriving they found nobody suffering from injuries, and managed to extinguish the majority of the fire relatively quickly.

The Annual Review contains the financial statements, the Report of the Board of Directors, the Sustainability statement, the Auditor's report, the Sustainability statement's assurance report, the Corporate Governance Statement and the Remuneration Report.

CDP is a non-profit organization that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states, and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The organization provides a score from A to D, that rates environmental action in three categories: climate, forest and water security.

British Columbia-based forestry giant Interfor reaped an estimated $1.8 million in net profit from logging in old-growth areas that were meant to be preserved, a decision by the province's Forest Appeals Commission says.

Ahlstrom, a global leader in fiber-based specialty materials, is proud to announce that its biological sample collection cards have been officially listed as FDA Class 1 medical devices.

Louisiana-Pacific Corp reported fourth-quarter net sales growth of 3.5% year-over-year to $681 million, beating the consensus of $666.753 million.

Cascades Inc. reports its unaudited financial results for the three-month period and fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

Accolades underscore LP's commitment to high-performance building products and exceptional customer service.

Boise Cascade Company reported fourth quarter net income of $68.9 million, or $1.78 per share, on sales of $1.6 billion. For the full year 2024, Boise Cascade reported net income of $376.4 million, or $9.57 per share, on sales of $6.7 billion.

Full year 2024 Operating EBITDA increased to $243.7 million (net loss of $85.1 million) from $17.5 million (net loss of $242.1 million) in 2023.