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International Paper is moving ahead with an upgrade to its linerboard mill valued at more than $100 million.

Avery Dennison Corporation announced that its Board of Directors has elected President and Chief Operating Officer Mitchell R. Butier as president and CEO.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Friday that Graphic Packaging is investing $20 million and adding more than 40 jobs in Staunton.

Over my career, the best operating mills and companies I have seen have had very open communications. In these systems, there is a culture encouraging communications between departments and between mills. Conversely, the worst I have seen have been those with a fortress mentality, both internally to a site, between departments and externally to the site, between mills. The worst I have ever seen was in a company making grades in declining markets. The mills saw each other as every bit as big a competitor as the mills actually belonging to competitors...

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Quad/Graphics will be closing its plant in Lenexa, Kan., by the end of this month, the company revealed...

The American Forest & Paper Association reports that total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 5.0% in January compared to January 2015. Total printing-writing paper inventories increased 2.0% from December levels.

Sappi North America has issued its 2015 Sustainability Report.

Fire crews in Melbourne on Thursday were tackling a large fire in a paper yard at Pratt Industries in Campbellfield, in Melbourne's north.

The Board of Directors of the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame Inc. has announced Kevin M. Gilligan, CEO of Appvion will be the keynote speaker at the 22nd annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Oct. 6. The event will be held at the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton.

The new warehouse will provide for operational efficiencies, including new inbound and outbound truck and rail facilities, as well as ample storage space for American Eagle's full line of fine paper products, the company said.

The new owner of much of the bankrupt Lincoln Paper and Tissue mill has sold one of three tissue machines in a move a group of former employees said could imperil an apparent last-ditch effort to keep the mill running.

One of the largest pulp-and-paper producers in the world has launched a major wildfire prevention initiative in the wake of large-scale forest fires in its home country of Indonesia last year. And the company is turning to its British Columbia connections to do it.

A former Georgia-Pacific paper company employee who accessed computers at the company's Port Hudson plant after being fired is now awaiting sentencing following a guilty plea in federal court.

Wilmington, Del., DuPont's home since its founding in 1802, will be the base for two planned companies, one handling agricultural products and the other electronic components and biosciences. Midland, Mich., Dow's home since 1897, will retain the material-sciences company, the companies said.

Two water treatment chemicals executives have been charged in Newark, N.J., with the U.S. Department of Justice alleging they conspired to eliminate competition among suppliers of the industrial chemical to municipalities and pulp and paper companies in the United States.

The combined company retains the Weyerhaeuser name and continues to be traded under the WY ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange.

WestRock announced this week that it has introduced PerfPak® Advantage, a medication package providing a compliance solution that improves adherence.

In some cases, I have seen mills go to great lengths to negotiate strong contracts for their long-haul freight, only to ignore what was happening on their own property, perhaps because of the location of their mills. You can't do much about the location of your mill, if you happen to have arrived after the grand opening. But you might be able to do something about the shuffling of trucks, containers and rail cars about your site...

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The transaction would include technologies, patents and trademarks, as well as securing supply to customers worldwide.

Jim Thompson has frequently stated that keeping the invoice printer spinning should be a high priority for most paper company staff (consistent always with issues such as safety and compliance with the law). Having orders from customers to whom you can issue invoices is of course a pre-requisite for printing them. A recent experience, and another one 30 years ago, has made me wonder how many North American paper companies are missing the boat (actually several ships).

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Quad's versatile foldable headset is much less expensive, lighter, thinner and more flexible than more widely known units such as Google Cardboard, the company said.