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Registered as Bucksport Generation LLC and majority owned by AIM Development, that business is a separate entity from the former paper mill that AIM purchased from Verso Paper Corp. last January.

In the wake of disappointing financial results, Quad/Graphics Inc. said it will begin closing plants and taking other steps to cut $100 million in costs.

Cascades Inc. announced Tuesday it is investing $26.4 million at its Norampac corrugated board conversion plant in Drummondville, to install a new corrugator, thus increasing its production capacity.

Under a tolling agreement of limited duration, BASF will continue to manufacture and supply PHK products to Imerys to enable a smooth transition for customers.

Nashua's namesake company, Nashua Corp., owned by graphics giant Cenveo, will shutter its Merrimack location by 30 April of next year, resulting in 53 layoffs and marking the end of a manufacturing legacy in New Hampshire that goes back more than a century.

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Cascades Inc. announced that it will be making strategic investments amounting to $4.5M in its Plastiques Cascades plant in Kingsey Falls and its Cascades Inopak plant in Drummondville.

The plant, which employs 87 people, according to the company, has been idle since early October

Seven weeks after ending their 12-day strike, KapStone employees in Longview still are working without a contract.

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Corrugated Supplies Co., which is based in Bedford, Ill., plans to build a $200 million linerboard mill in 2017.

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KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. lost an estimated $14 million in the 12-strike at the Longview paper mill, the company announced in its third-quarter earnings report Wednesday.

Mondi on Thursday said it has struck a deal to sell its Raubling containerboard mill in Germany.

The paper machine that is planned for closure at the end of 2015 has a capacity of 135,000 tons and is the smallest and oldest of the four paper machines at Ortviken paper mill.

SCA announced that it is strengthening the cooperation with Vinda International Holdings Limited by integrating its business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea into Vinda.

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Hokuetsu Kishu Paper Company Limited announced that it has acquired Alpac Forest Products Incorporated from Mitsubishi Corporation and Oji Holdings Corporation.

The EUR 160 million UPM investment project was started in the spring of 2014 and has now proceeded to final finishing work.

A worker at the Clearwater Paper Company in Ladysmith, Wisconsin died Tuesday morning from injuries apparently suffered in an accident at the facility.