Leading Stories

Building on years of experience, the development journey towards a sustainable paper bottle first began in 2015 by innovation expert EcoXpac in collaboration with Carlsberg Group and BillerudKorsnäs, with support from project partners.

The company is expected to invest around $175 million (Euro 159.2 million) to build the plant.

The cause of a conveyor belt fire at the WestRock Paper Mill in West Point is under investigation.

Company blames decline in cedar supply and weak markets for byproducts.

LSC Communications announced that the company was honored with six awards in the 2019 'Golden Cylinder' Awards, an annual competition designed to identify the "Best of Gravure" in each segment of the printing industry and to distinguish technical innovations.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is investigating a broken pipe at Finch Paper that leaked about 2 million gallons of paper waste into the Hudson River late last month.

Orora has sold its its Australian packaging business to Nippon Paper for $1.72 billion, triggering a surge in its share price of as much as 19 per cent at one point on Thursday.

By 2030, the Lenzing Group aims to reduce its specific CO2 emissions per ton of manufactured pulp and fibers by 50%. By the year 2050, the Lenzing Group will no longer generate any net CO2 emissions.

The investment made by BillerudKorsnäs in the new KM7 machine at the Gruvön mill is the company's biggest investment to date and one of the largest industrial investments in Sweden in recent years.

WIELAND, a general contracting and construction management firm, has been awarded the contract for the new Graphic Packaging mill project in Kalamazoo, MI.

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation announced that it has acquired the prefinishing assets at a Granite City, Ill., prefinish facility near St. Louis owned by BlueLinx.

ND Paper announced it will strategically inject investment capital to improve the asset quality of its mills in Maine and Wisconsin in the coming year.

The sale of the Park Falls Flambeau River Papers mill to newly formed company Element Ventures could not be finalized and the assets of the mill will now be marketed as a liquidation sale.

Fortress Global Enterprises Inc. announced that it will be taking market downtime at the Fortress Specialty Cellulose Mill (the "FSC Mill") in Thurso , Québec.

Monadnock Paper Mills, founded in 1819 in Bennington, says it is the oldest continuously operating paper mill in the country.

These measures will result in capacity reduction of containerboard paper (corrugating medium) of approximately 163,000 t/year.

Employees at WestRock first tried to put it out themselves and when they were unable to, called the fire department.

Nine Dragons Paper Ltd, a public listed paper manufacturing company in Mainland China intends to set up a unit near Paradip, its first facility in India.

The closures will take place at the Ashdown, Arkansas pulp and paper mill, and the Port Huron, Michigan paper mill.

Visy intended to undertake feasibility studies on future uses including the production of packaging-grade papers at the site.

Quad/Graphics Inc will pay $9.9 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges it conducted bribery schemes in Peru and China and violated U.S. sanctions by dealing with a Cuban state-owned telecommunications company.

To-date, Fortress' wholly-owned subsidiaries, Fortress Specialty Cellulose Inc. ("FSC") and Fortress Bioenergy Ltd. (together, the "Borrowers"), have drawn down an aggregate of $5,000,000 under the previously announced senior secured credit facility, which has provided the Company with supplemental liquidity.

Escambia Fire Rescue responded to a reported fire at International Paper in Cantonment midday Tuesday.

Finnpulp increases its investment assessment in bioproduct mill in Sorsasalo, Kuopio, Finland, to Euro 1.6 billion, or nearly Euro 200 million more than previously announced.

Södra Cell International will be split into two product categories - Paper Pulp and Bioproducts - to strengthen Södra's market position as a first-class supplier of paper pulp, while increasing the underlying earnings potential of new products. The change will come into effect on 1 October.