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The lead contractor overseeing demolition of the former local paper mill appears to no longer be involved with the project and efforts are being made to find a new firm to take its place, according to a town official.

International Paper on Monday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its corrugated packaging business in China and Southeast Asia to Xiamen Bridge Hexing Equity Investment Partnership Enterprise. International Paper's corrugated packaging business in Asia has 18 plants and a workforce of approximately 3,000 employees.

UPM-Kymmene Inc. and Northern SC Paper Corp., a subsidiary of the New York Times Company, announced Monday the dissolution of their partnership, Madison Paper Industries, in the USA.

No injuries were reported and the fire is under investigation.

A criminal case against Gennady Tikhonov, an executive of the Baikal pulp and paper mill charged with polluting the Baikal Lake, has commenced.

Major companies operating in Canada which could be affected if the U.S. lobby pushed for higher duties on lumber include Canfor Corp, Tembec, Resolute Forest Products and West Fraser Timber Co.

Klabin has announced the startup of its new pulp mill located in Ortigueira, Paraná. The company produced the first pulp bale at the Puma Unit, which already holds Chain of Custody certification from Forest Stewardship Council.

A group of leading forestry and agriculture companies, NGOs and other partners announced on Friday the formation of the Fire-Free Alliance, a voluntary, multi-stakeholder platform to aid in the resolution of land and forest fires in Indonesia.

In decades past, in the United States, engineering students came off the farm. It was often a first step up for farm family children to go to engineering school. I was a classic example. I left the farm and became a mechanical engineer. Today, entry level personnel, even if they are trained engineers, often do not have the practical background we used to have...

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About 1,000 people had worked at the mill in 2000, when it was owned and operated by Champion International. A series of industrial owners had made paper at the site since 1930.

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The former Great Northern Paper Co. LLC mill closed in February 2013, laying off 212 of 256 workers and devastating the Katahdin region economy.

The planned spinoff of WestRock Co.'s chemical business is advancing.

Rod Bender, general manager of Norske Skog's newsprint and catalogue papers mill, said the location of the fault was a positive because it removed one of the uncertainties from Basslink's repair schedule.

Michael McNeil has spent more than four decades in the industry and has been with Miami Machine since 1987

Hygiene paper producer Sofidel Group has acquired tissue paper converter Forest Papir Kft based in Piszke, near Budapest.

Imerys S.A., based in Paris, France, and Omya AG, based in Oftringen, Switzerland, announced that they have entered into exclusive negotiations to form a 50:50 technology joint venture to promote the research and development of Micro Fibrillated Cellulose (MFC), concerning a variety of applications and industries.

Fire in a printing press caused $50,000 damage at R R Donnelley & Sons in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on Monday morning, an official said.

BASF is working with advisers and financing banks to examine the merits of making a counter bid for DuPont Co, the $55 billion chemical company that agreed to a merger with Dow Chemical Co in December, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Workers at Sioux City, Iowa's WestRock facility went on strike Thursday afternoon. The company employees 78 people at the site.

The chief executive officers of DuPont and Dow Chemical Co. will receive a combined $80 million in "golden parachute" payments after the companies merge and then split into three, according to a regulatory filing.

You will never know if a mill is well maintained if you follow the mill's "tour route"--you know, the route they keep clean and in great shape for executives, board members and customers. Didn't know that mills have "tour routes"? Have I got some hot property in Florida for you! In a mill that is in really bad shape, you won't have to go to the places I am going to tell you about, for they, that is those in charge, will never let you get there. Thus, the first clue you are in a poorly maintained mill is if you run into resistance to a full blown tour...

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