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The International Council of Forest and Paper Associations (ICFPA) and its members welcome the signing of the landmark United Nations agreement to tackle climate change, set to take place on April 22.
The Legislature voted Friday to back a $13.4 million taxpayer bailout of at least two of the state's six ailing biomass energy plants that support hundreds of logging jobs.
A former senior account representative for RR Donnelley is suing the company for allegations of age discrimination.
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Oji Paper Co., Bridgestone Corp. and Suntory Holdings Ltd. stopped operations at their plants in Kumamoto Prefecture.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a unilateral order to Georgia-Pacific, Weyerhaeuser and International Paper which requires the removal of PCB-contaminated sediment and soil from a 1.5-mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River upstream of the Otsego Township Dam, Otsego, Mich.
Quad/Graphics announced it has expanded its executive leadership team to support its ongoing transformation as an innovator of new, complementary products and marketing services that help clients increase engagement, response and revenue across channels while reducing their total cost of production and distribution.
Canfor Corporation says it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Wynndel Box & Lumber Ltd. located in the Creston Valley, British Columbia.
Metsä Board announced that it has inaugurated a new folding boxboard machine at Husum mill in Sweden.
Smurfit Kappa has been ordered to pay €17,000 to a staff member it unfairly dismissed arising from alleged unauthorized absences connected to the man serving on a jury panel for a high-profile criminal trial.
A more detailed complaint is what plaintiffs in a $5 million class action lawsuit against P.H. Glatfelter Co. hope will push the case forward after their original suit was dismissed early this year.
UPM announced this week the official inauguration of the Paper Machine 3 in Changshu, China.
Södra announced this week that the final leg of the expansion Värö project is approaching and on 7 May, all production at Södra Cell Värö will cease, followed by five intensive weeks of dismantling the old machinery, and installing new and larger machinery.
Klabin announced that the annual maintenance shutdown of the Monte Alegre Unit in Telêmaco Borba, Brazil, will be from May 10 to 20.
Asked whether the Catalyst Paper mill in Rumford, Maine is one of the companies, the governor said no, "at least not for the time being
RenFuel and Nordic Paper have signed an agreement to build a production test facility in Bäckhammar, Sweden, in order to test manufacture an advanced biofuel based on lignin. The project has been granted US $8.7 million by the Swedish Energy Agency.
Stora Enso says its need for paper for recycling in Sweden has decreased during the past years, and needed volumes can be sourced from the market.
Kilberg succeeds Tom Lindquist, who has decided to leave the company mid-year to pursue new business ventures.
The project is part of Kruger's $250-million investment to rebuild its No. 10 Newsprint Machine to manufacture 100%-recycled, lightweight and high-strength linerboard.
Rabin Worldwide, one of the partners in a joint venture that bought the Lincoln and Old Town mills, said it plans to put both facilities up for sale during a four-day auction in Bangor later this month.
Boise Cascade Company announced that it has completed the acquisition of Georgia-Pacific LLC's engineered lumber production facilities located at Thorsby, Alabama and Roxboro, North Carolina for $215 million including closing date estimated working capital of $25 million which is subject to final adjustment.
The paper machines were turned off early Thursday morning at the Whiting Paper Co. after a final run, ending the mill's 134-year history.
The divestment of Stora Enso's entire 80% shareholding in the Arapoti magazine paper mill in Brazil to Papeles Bio Bio, a Chilean paper producer, has been completed.
Achieving a 50% reduction in fresh water consumption per ton of finished product by 2030 is an ambitious goal of Agenda 2020. The organization has released its 2016 research roadmap outlining priority research initiatives to achieve significant efficiencies in the use and re-use of water in pulp and paper mills en route to that goal.
A birthday or anniversary calls for cake, even if the honoree is a 115-year-old facility.
Union workers at an Iowa WestRock corrugated packaging company have been on strike for nearly a month now.
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