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Weyerhaeuser Company announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly base cash dividend of $0.21 per share on the common stock of the company, payable in cash on June 22, 2026, to holders of record of such common stock as of the close of business on June 5, 2026.

The building materials manufacturer plans to invest $1.175 billion over the life of the project and create nearly 200 jobs, according to the governor's office. The company's initial investment in the Orange facility is $650 million.

Crews say the fire inside the Smurfit Westrock facility in Claremont started when a worker accidentally dropped a battery-powered flashlight into a compactor and smashed it.

Interfor recorded a net loss of $63 million in the first quarter of 2026, compared with a $105 million net loss in the prior quarter, as benchmark lumber prices rebounded and the company's average selling price rose to $666 per thousand board feet. The company posted adjusted EBITDA of $31 million on sales of $643 million in the quarter.

The investment is expected to reduce emissions, enhance performance, and extend maintenance intervals for the mill's recovery boiler.

The rebuild is designed to increase production capacity by approximately 60%.

The 2026 designees are U.S. private companies that have demonstrated excellence in strategic planning and execution, a commitment to their people, as well as maintaining financial performance and governance.

With a capacity production of 1.200 million square meters of corrugated board packaging, THIMM employs 2,500 people in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Romania

October of 1973, only four months after I graduated from college, was the first gas crisis. Prior to that, gasoline prices had been steady for a couple of decades. Since that time, we have been in fuel crises nearly continuously. If not in a crisis, it has at least been a daily topic of discussion. Is there a macro learning (s) from just this limited amount of information? I think so...

UPM on May 13 announces that it has reached an agreement with Avantium N.V. to acquire the intellectual property related to Avantium's Ray Technology®, a process for the production of bio-based mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) and mono-propylene glycol (MPG) from plant-based sugars.

Forest owners are interested in the voluntary protection of their forests, offering more than 1,000 hectares for the first application round organised by Metsä Conservation Foundation. These 85 sites represent diverse forests from all over Finland.

The acquisitions deepen Veritiv's presence in Central Florida and strengthen its penetration in underrepresented Northeast markets, expanding the company's packaging capabilities and regional customer coverage.

Packaging Corporation of America announced that it intends to increase the quarterly cash dividend on its common stock to an annual payout of $6.00 per share from $5.00 per share, a 20% increase.

Smurfit Westrock has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, outlining ambitious new Better Planet targets, the significant progress made across climate, circularity and communities, and the role of paper based packaging in supporting a lower carbon, circular economy.

Start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026.

With MaxPulping, AFT further strengthens its presence across the papermaking process by offering a complete pulping solution that includes core equipment, wear parts, and related services.

It took 175 firefighters to extinguish Ontario's 1.2-million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark paper goods warehouse allegedly set alight by a disgruntled employee who wanted higher pay on April 7.

Kruger Inc. has announced a $333 million investment marking its entry into the nonwovens sector and advancing its long-term portfolio diversification strategy. This new division will focus on manufacturing some of the industry's most sustainable materials for a broad range of wipe applications.

A shareholder filed a class action lawsuit against Graphic Packaging International on May 7 alleging the company and certain C-suite executives violated federal securities laws by misleading investors. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Georgia-Pacific has started final engineering and planning for additional structured paper machines and associated converting equipment to better meet growing customer and consumer demand for premium bath tissue and paper towels.

The Ontario government is investing $10 million in Georgia-Pacific North Woods to advance a major $191 million upgrade to its oriented strand board (OSB) plant. The project will support the increased production of Ontario-made wood products and protect more than 220 jobs and hundreds of indirect jobs in the region.

International Paper brand DS Smith has invested more than €14m ($16.4m) into its production network in Romania.

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