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In six to eight weeks, roughly 6 million seedlings are planted across 15,000 acres of forestland.

Our Statistics professor in college began his course by saying, "You can lie with statistics, and by the end of this course, you'll understand how to do it too." This naturally caused an eruption of objections across the class, with horrified and naive students proclaiming it wasn't possible to lie with statistics. "Ah, just wait. Just wait," he said. "You'll understand by the time we're done with this course." His goal, as we soon learned, wasn't to teach us to lie. His goal was to get us intensely interested in his class, and it worked.

DEI has become so ubiquitous in the last couple of years that it probably needs no definition. But just in case, it stands for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. If it is not dead, to follow the old joke, it is at least on life support.

Carbon Balanced Paper is proud to announce its acceptance into the United States Postal Service (USPS) Sustainability Add-On Promotion Program, marking a significant milestone in our commitment to environmental stewardship.

The negotiations involved a total of 1,100 employees at the Joutseno, Kaskinen, Kemi, Kyro, Tampere, Simpele and Äänekoski mills.

Company invests in additional manufacturing lines, introduces new unpadded mailer styles.

Pregis®, a global leader in protective packaging, mailing and bagging, and flexible packaging solutions, has taken a transformative step toward its 2040 net-zero pledge. In 2024, the company will match 100% of the electricity consumed at six facilities with wind power.

Green Bay Packaging Inc. on Wednesday announced a multi-year investment to modernize its 59-year-old pulp and containerboard mill about 40 miles northwest of Little Rock, Arkansas.

Apollo Global Management Inc.-owned packaging company Novolex is exploring a potential takeover offer for Pactiv Evergreen Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

Two of the country's largest pulp and paper unions, Unifor and the Public and Private Workers of Canada (PPWC), have selected Kruger, Inc. in Kamloops, B.C. as the target to establish pattern bargaining across the forestry sector in Western Canada.

The background is that the former main shareholder, Chinese Shanying International Holding, wanted to sell its holding in Nordic Paper and therefore presented SVP as a buyer.

Firefighters say there were no injuries and the fire only caused minimal damage to the baghouse equipment.

Ahlstrom, a global leader in fiber-based specialty materials, is proud to announce the launch of MasterTape® Cristal, a paper-based transparent tape backing to reduce plastic waste and promote a more sustainable future.

Cascades Inc. is pleased to make a concrete gesture to help the organizations supported by the Media Food Drive by offering a major donation of hygiene products.

The transaction advances Sonoco's portfolio transformation strategy to simplify and realign its portfolio and position the Company for long-term growth and value creation.

Hydri has chosen cross-laminated timber (CLT) from Södra for the construction of several new hydrogen stations, including in Värnamo, Hallandsåsen, and Ödeshög.

The statutory negotiations at the Suolahti mill concerned all the plywood mill's employees, in total about 370 people.

UPM and the nature conservation organisation Luontokollektiivi are starting the restoration of the approximately 100-hectare Western Valkeasuo in Tohmajärvi, North Karelia, Finland.

Industry minister also called to appear before natural resources committee.

Domtar is a separate company from APP with its own management structure and governance. Domtar and APP will remain distinct entities, with no operational overlap and independent governance structures.

Irving Paper will once again shut down 50 per cent of its operations beginning Monday December 2nd in response to NB Power's record high industrial electricity rates, and remain down for at least a week.

Swedish pulp and paper company Billerud announced it's investing in upgrades worth 1.4 billion Swedish kronor, about $127 million, at its U.S.-based production facilities. The majority, worth about $109 million, will go toward its graphic paper mill in Escanaba, Michigan, where earlier this year the company canceled a project to convert the plant into a cartonboard production facility.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, in collaboration with Aalto University and Finnish industrial partners, has developed a new technology for shaping cardboard in a unique continuous process to create reel-to-reel origami-inspired structures for fibre-based packaging materials.

The new authorization replaces and supersedes the Company's existing $100 million share repurchase authorization.

Södra is proud to announce that our cross-laminated timber (CLT) is now available on the innovative software platform, CLT Toolbox. This collaboration allows engineers and architects to easily design and optimize sustainable and efficient timber constructions using Södra's CLT.