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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

More than 70 workers at the Catalyst Crofton pulp and paper mill have been laid off.

With this consolidation, Stora Enso will permanently close the Kitee sawmill by the end of this year, leading to making 73 employees redundant.

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.

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.

CelluStraw™, a new fiber based solution for drinking paper straws, has been recently launched and is specially designed to address the food industry's emerging initiatives to phase out single-use plastic straws.

Arauco announced its commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2020, meaning the company aims to capture more greenhouse gas emissions than its emissions at a global level, which in addition to being a significant contribution and real step forward to deal with the climate crisis, position Arauco as the world's first forestry company to achieve this important goal.

The approximately 160 employees at the Battle Creek mill were notified of the decision on Tuesday. Company intends to begin phasing out the Middletown, Ohio, mill as well.

Annica Bresky will become chief executive of Finnish pulp, paper and packaging board maker Stora Enso Oyj from December, taking over from Karl-Henrik Sundstrom.

The Company will invest $600 million in the project, and the machine is expected to have an annual capacity of approximately 500,000 tons.

Arkansas environmental officials have approved an air permit for a Chinese company's $1.8 billion paper mill that has been delayed by President Donald Trump's trade dispute with China.

The agreement aims to improve Nordic Paper's productivity, health and safety and sustainability performance.