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To further improve efficiency and strengthen the competitiveness of its tissue operations, SCA has decided to implement restructuring measures at its production plants in Hondouville and Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France.
Weyerhaeuser announced the completion of the sale of its liquid packaging board business to Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. for $285 million in cash.
Pulp and paper supplier PT Bumi Mekar Hijau was ordered to pay the equivalent of $6 million by an appeals court in South Sumatra, in a reversal of an earlier decision that saw the firm cleared of wrongdoing.
A fire in the roof at Wausau Paper, an SCA company, caused about $1,000 in damages Thursday night, according to Middletown firefighters.
Coldwater has hired Tom Polaski as North American Wet End Applications Specialist.
The head of U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has called for hearings next month on the proposed merger between the DuPont Co. and Dow Chemical Co., as well as on broader issues of consolidation within the seed and chemical industry.
Mohawk, North America's largest privately-owned manufacturer of fine papers, envelopes and specialty substrates for commercial and digital printing, is pleased to announce the following organizational changes and promotions.
Investigators with the Columbus (Ohio) Division of Fire say they have identified the origin of a four-alarm blaze at a WestRock facility, but not the exact cause.
Verso Corporation has introduced Life, Liberty® and the Pursuit of Great Paper, a new promotion for its Liberty® coated web paper line.
The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) approved without restrictions, the partial spin-off of the assets of Florestal Vale do Corisco, company currently controlled by Klabin, with a 51% stake in the share capital, and the Arauco Forest with 49%.
The Weyerhaeuser Company closed two lumber mills in Columbia Falls last week, ending several decades of production.
Intertek, a quality assurance provider to industries worldwide, has supported Frugalpac, a pioneering UK packaging firm, in developing a recyclable coffee cup. The innovative cup is now being trialled by some of the world's major coffee brands.
Louisiana is home to a significant portion of the North American pulp and paper industry, both mills and suppliers. When I think back to the business I have done over the decades in Louisiana, the volume is staggering (I received my first project in Louisiana in 1979 in Bogalusa). Right now several of our clients call Louisiana home as well as do many of our friends.
Georgia-Pacific announced Friday that it has contributed $50,000 to the Baton Rouge Area Foundation Flood Relief Fund for southeast Louisiana flood recovery efforts.
Maine's congressional delegation asks for help devising a plan to encourage economic growth, but Gov. LePage opts out.
Appvion Inc. has introduced additional sheeted versions of its Triumph treated and coated high-speed inkjet papers.
Boise Cascade will be taking up to seven days of maintenance downtime the week of September 4 at the company's plywood mill in Elgin, Oregon. The company's mill in Medford, Oregon, will take up to five days of maintenance downtime, also during the week of September 4.
About 45 employees were evacuated from Georgia-Pacific in Bradford Township, Pennsylvania for about an hour Wednesday afternoon after a bailer overheated and caught fire at the facility.
Catalyst says it's still investigating exactly what happened, but is confirming a mechanical failure at the Crofton mill sent a spray of residual liquor into the air for half an hour...
Oregon State Police say they arrested four people in connection with a campfire that spread out of control, igniting several logging slash piles on Weyerhaeuser property northwest of Portland.
Cascades Inc. announced that it has taken a majority position in Longhorn Paper Converting, a tissue converting plant in Grand Prairie, Texas.
The managers of the Kawerau pulp and paper mill are warning the cost of electricity transmission could drive the plant out of business.
Venezuela's newly nationalized Kimberly-Clark facility has produced 2,068,800 sanitary towels in the first month since reopening following a worker takeover in July.
Verso Corporation announced that David J. Paterson will retire as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Verso.
There was a fire Tuesday morning at the Verso Paper Mill, and Escanaba Public Safety was asked to respond in Wells Township.
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