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The company said it will add 350,000 tons per year of OCC pulping capacity at its Wallula, Wash. mill, which currently produces predominantly virgin linerboard and medium, materials used in containerboard production.
The new facility currently adds more than 80 workers to the existing workforce, employing a total of 179 full-time employees.
The stoppages are expected to reduce production by 30,000 cubic metres.
SIG has reached agreement to acquire Visy Cartons Pty Ltd from VisyPak Operations Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Pratt Consolidated Holdings Pty Ltd, for AU$70m (US$48.2m), subject to customary conditions being met.
Quad/Graphics, Inc. announced that it is a founding member of Forests in Focus, a sustainability initiative from GreenBlue, an environmental nonprofit dedicated to the sustainable use of materials in society, and the American Forest Foundation (AFF), a conservation organization that works with family landowners in the United States.
The newly formed Willamette Falls Paper Co. quietly restarted two months ago and is now trying out new classes of paper made from pulp and agricultural waste instead of wood.
It's unclear how many jobs will be restored when Niagara Worldwide takes over.
The reduction of personnel is 179 (159 permanent and 20 temporary contracts not prolonged).
The cause of the fire has yet to be determined.
The cab landed on a guardrail and the load of sawdust spilled down an embankment.
The Board of Directors of BillerudKorsnäs AB has appointed the current Chairman of the Board, Lennart Holm, as acting CEO from November 5, 2019. Petra Einarsson leaves as CEO with immediate effect.
Longtime International Paper and Georgia-Pacific papermaker Jeff Reese passed away Wednesday, 30 Oct. 2019. He was 56.
Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited will be shutting down one of its two paper machines for 11 days.
The company blames lumber markets, weather, labour shortages and equipment.
WestRock is closing its Newark plant, potentially putting more than 100 employees out of work.
Great Pacific Capital Corp. is buying company's remaining shares at $16 each.
Klabin SA will invest 3.8 billion reais ($950 million) in its 'Puma 2' containerboard expansion project next year, and will end 2019 with lower stocks of cellulose than it did last year, executives said on Tuesday.
Cascades Inc. announces that it will permanently close tissue converting operations at its Waterford, New York and Kingman, Arizona plants, effective March 27, 2020.
The book business, acquired in 2010 as part of the World Color transaction, generates around $200 million in sales annually. It has facilities in Versailles, Kentucky, Fairfield, Pennsylvania and Martinsburg, West Virginia with around 1,350 full- and part-time employees.
A roughly 350,300-square-foot warehouse and distribution facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisc. has been acquired by ND Paper, an Illinois-based paper and paper products maker, according to county records.
In a letter, GP says it offered all 55 employees positions at other locations in the area. Twenty-seven people accepted jobs; the remaining 28 chose not to.
Roseburg Forest Products held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday (Oct. 28, 2019) to celebrate the grand opening of its newly constructed Chester, S.C., engineered wood plant, the company reported.
Beetles, tariffs and mill closures have cut into Canada's share of the U.S. lumber market, lifting prices by about a third over the past year and shifting even more logging to the U.S. Southeast.
Vote shows 99.6 percent of members opposed to proposed deal.
At present, no one in the world can recycle fibres from blended fabrics on a large scale. Södra now has a unique solution that will enable circular flows in the fashion and textile industry.
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