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The company said the job cuts were part of a restructuring plan meant to reduce its costs and create greater efficiency. The cuts will amount to about 2 percent of the company's total work force of about 58,000 people world-wide

Liberty Diversified International (LDI) announced that is has acquired San Diego-based Harbor Packaging Inc., a designer and manufacturer of corrugated packaging and Point of Purchase (POP) displays in Southern California and Mexico

Potlatch Corporation has signed a purchase agreement to acquire 201,000 acres of timberlands in Alabama and Mississippi from affiliates of Resource Management Service, LLC for $384 million

Cascades and Rackam started work on the ground-level facility in June, installing a powerful concentrated solar power (CSP) system with a surface area of 1490 m2 on a 4000 m2 lot, with the aim of reducing the consumption of natural gas used to produce the hot water required for operations at the industrial complex. The project is a first in the pulp and paper industry

David Paul Wiser, chief financial officer of Pratt Industries, died 12 Oct 2014 of natural causes. Mr. Wiser worked at Pratt for the past 15 years.

Improvements at the mill include the installation of a new continuous dry kiln and a state-of-the-art planer mill, along with related infrastructure improvements. Project completion is expected by the third quarter of 2015, the company said.

A new chip plant will be constructed and one of the two pulp lines will be modified

The transaction, which is expected to close in the first quarter, will reportedly add 290 employees and a range of printing, finishing and coating additives to Reinach, Switzerland-based Archroma, the companies said, without disclosing financial details.

The investment includes two separate production lines for anionic and cationic products which will produce FennoBond strength chemistries for tissue and also board customers

This is a subject we covered over a decade ago in this column. But we have many newer readers and the rest of us likely have forgotten what I said on the subject. It is worth going over again, and there are some fresh ideas to discuss, as well...

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Readers weigh in on last week's column, "Inheriting a mess."

These full-tuition scholarships are highly competitive and winners are selected by committee from among applicants who are studying the paper science and engineering curriculum at Miami. Recipients are selected for their superior academic performance, creativity in problem-solving and demonstrated examples of exceptional leadership.

SCA announced that it has once again been recognized as a leader in disclosing climate change data with quality and depth to its investors and to the global market place. The achievement was announced Wednesday on the CDP Climate Leadership Awards seminar in Stockholm.

Fortress Paper Ltd. said this week that the antidumping duty imposed by China's Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM") on dissolving pulp imports to China from Canada, the United States and Brazil has remained unchanged since its imposition.

Asia Pulp & Paper releases statement following government evaluation

The company said new pulp dryer will allow mill in Russia to produce more than 100,000 tonnes of FSC certified softwood market pulp per year

Pacon Corporation said this week that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Roselle Paper Co. Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Pacon acquired Roselle's equipment, inventory and trade names.

Metsä Group announced this week that it is preparing to build a next-generation bioproduct mill in Äänekoski, Finland. The company said that the next concrete step is to demolish the existing, decommissioned pulp mill to make room for the new bioproduct mill planned for the same site.

If you don't think Ebola is going to spread widely and rapidly, I have a bridge to sell you in New York. As long as Ebola remains a contact-transmitted (not airborne) virus, the pulp and paper industry has an opportunity to help contain this disease.

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Actually, the issue should be stated, "Will these paper machine designs as we know them today, survive in the future?" While some may later conclude this discussion borders on fiction or is based on conjecture, hopefully a few thought-provoking "truisms" will be recognized.

Too many in the media want the luxury of being on all sides of every issue. And then they wonder why they have absolutely zero relevance.