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BMO's Dr. Mark Wilde is reporting that reliable trade contacts report that KapStone has announced a $50/ton containerboard price hike on all grades -- linerboard and medium. WestRock, the second largest containerboard producer in N.A., has announced a $50/ton containerboard price hike, effective with shipments March 13. WRK has also announced a 10% box and 12% sheet price hike effective with the same date.
Charmin Essentials Soft, a new product from Charmin, has been named a 2017 Product of the Year winner in the Bath Tissue category.
With two major projects at its Cabano plant supported by the Quebec government, Cascades will significantly decrease its heavy-fuel oil consumption.
Clearwater Paper Corporation announced plans to build a new tissue machine and related converting equipment for producing premium and ultra-premium grades of private label tissue products at a site adjacent to the company's existing facility in Shelby, North Carolina.
The Tolko mill in Kelowna has partially resumed operations following the sinking of one of its tugboats that killed an employee last week.
Representatives of the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), Northwest Pulp & Paper Association (NWPPA) and the Washington Forest Protection Association (WFPA) are partnering to host today's Forest Products Advocacy Day in Olympia, Washington.
Dow Chemical and DuPont has offered to sell assets to ease EU competition concerns that their planned $130 billion merger may lead to farmers facing higher prices and fewer new herbicides and pesticides in the future.
Stora Enso is investing Euro 28 million at its Heinola fluting mill in Finland. The investment improves quality as well as increases production capacity of its AvantFlute SC product portfolio.
A laborer alleges he was burned by hot ash while cleaning a Georgia-Pacific facility in Zachary, Louisiana.
A chip bin at the Resolute Forest Products Saw Mill sustained significant damage as a result of a fire early Sunday morning, 5 Feb 2017.
International Paper officials refuse to disclose the reason the Cantonment plant was closed for 24 hours prior to an explosion that spewed black liquor throughout the north end of the county.
KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation announced that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Associated Packaging, Inc. and Fast Pak, LLC (together, API).
Coldwater Group has announced the acquisition of RPM Technologies, Inc. of Ludlow, MA.
Andritz has acquired technology and intellectual property assets from Franssons Recycling Machines AB, located in Sundsvall, Sweden.
Sappi plans to increase dissolving wood pulp capacity by more than 30 percent over the next four years as the world's largest maker of the product pursues growth.
J.D. Irving, Limited has been charged with two counts of violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act in connection with the death of a worker last year at the company's Sussex sawmill.
Conifex Timber Inc., a Canada-based forestry and sawmilling company, will create about 120 new, full-time jobs once the Arkansas facility is reopened. The company is investing $80 million in the Union County sawmill.
Verso Corp. has received a tax incentive to pave the way for its move to Dayton.
An investigation is under way into a fatal industrial accident Monday night at the Tolko mill in Kelowna.
Prinzhorn Group's subsidiary, Hamburger Containerboard invested in Gelsenkirchen mill in Germany. With an investment of Euro 20 million the machine setup was updated significantly: besides an increase in production width to 5 m, the film press and drying section were updated to the latest standards too.
Green groups said that one of the world's biggest pulp mills which started production on Indonesia's Sumatra island last month was causing enormous environmental damage.
Four Valmet-supplied tissue lines have been successfully started up at Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing's Chongqing mill in China within three months.
A lawyer for J.D. Irving, Limited has entered not guilty pleas to each of 15 pollution charges under the federal Fisheries Act related to alleged pollution from the pulp mill in Saint John.
Catalyst Paper Corporation announced that the Supreme Court of British Columbia has issued its final order approving the Company's recapitalization and privatization pursuant to a plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act.
SAPPI, the South African pulp and paper company with global operations, is celebrating 80 years of listing in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).
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