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The planned pulp paper mill will turn pulp into serviettes, toilet paper and facial tissues, among others.
KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. faces $71,800 in state fines for health and safety violations at its Longview mill last November, including a "near miss" when a paper machine was nearly started with a contract worker inside.
The Memphis-based paper company announced this week that David J. Paterson, CEO and president, will step down from day-to-day management and become chairman of the board once the company emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization proceedings.
A multimillion-dollar lawsuit by forestry giant Resolute Forest Products Inc. will not deter it from continuing its mission of "investigating, exposing and confronting environmental abuse by corporations," Greenpeace has announced.
Twin Rivers Paper Company Limited announced Monday that it will invest approximately $12 million at its Madawaska facility as part of a strategic realignment to focus on growth-oriented market segments and maximize productivity.
The Rolla facility will produce sustainably-made, molded-fiber egg cartons for the U.S. market. Cartons will be made of 100% recycled newspaper sourced from the Midwest and distributed nationally.
The company said that during its 20 years of operation, the city of Suzhou has grown around the mill, making it difficult to develop and continue industrial operations at the current site. The cash consideration for the divestment of assets is approximately EUR 240 million.
An investigation is ongoing into a workplace incident that left a Corner Brook Pulp and Paper employee with serious burns earlier this week.
On Thursday, 2 June 2016, a serious workplace accident occurred in Valmet's installation activities in the pulp mill expansion project at Södra Cell's Värö mill in Sweden. An employee of Valmet's subcontractor was seriously injured in a lifting operation and later died in hospital whilst receiving treatment for injuries sustained during the accident.
Verso on Thursday announced the release of its new product on Jay's No. 5 paper machine, which it said will be used for items such as deli wraps, food service liners, microwave popcorn bags and laminated food pouches.
Thomas Gardner, Niilo Heikki Hakkarainen, Charles Klass, Otto Kress, Irwin Pearl and Juhani Strömberg will join previous members of the Paper Hall of Fame during the 22nd class induction ceremonies.
Cascades Inc. announced that Norampac, its containerboard packaging division, has successfully completed a transaction with US-based company Rand-Whitney Container LLC for the acquisition of its plant in Newtown, Connecticut, in exchange for certain assets of its Norampac New England plant, located in Thompson, Connecticut. The Newtown plant manufactures corrugated packaging.
Kalenobel makes consumer packaging for ice cream and other products from two manufacturing sites north-west of Istanbul, Johannesburg-based Mondi said in a statement on Thursday.
Former Georgia-Pacific CEO and Virginia Tech President T. Marshall Hahn died Sunday at the age of 89.
A major fire was reported at the paper mill of Suzano Papel e Celulose , in Suzano, in the Greater São Paulo, late on Tuesday night.
Resolute Forest Products Inc filed a racketeering lawsuit against Greenpeace and some of its associates for its campaign criticizing the company's forestry practices. The Montreal, Quebec-based company said in a statement on Tuesday that the complaint, filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District Of Georgia, sought compensatory and other damages.
According to a WARN notice filed with the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the jobs will be cut as of July 16. Positions eliminated include cutting and press operators, as well as inspectors, laborers and others.
Australia-based Licella Fibre Fuels Pty Ltd. and Canada-based Canfor Pulp Products Inc., through its subsidiary Canfor Pulp Ltd., have signed an agreement to form a joint-venture: Licella Pulp Joint Venture.
This week Pratt Industries announced a major expansion to its American paper and packaging empire with the acquisition of a large Minnesota-based company. Pratt paid almost $100 million for Minnesota Corrugated Box Inc.
Resolute Forest Products has been fined $55,000 after a worker was injured at its Iroquois Falls paper mill in 2014. Resolute's Iroquois Falls mill has since closed, shuttering its doors permanently in December 2014, putting 180 people out of work.
The Prince Albert Pulp Mill might begin producing raw kraft pulp product as soon as 2020.
De Pere businessman Ron Van Den Heuvel, the founder of Green Box NA Green Bay LLC, his wife Kelly Van Den Heuvel, and banker Paul Piikkila all pleaded not guilty to charges of bank fraud in federal court. Ron Van Den Heuvel is charged with seven counts of executing a bank fraud scheme and five counts of making false statements to influence a bank loan. If convicted, he faces up to 30 years in prison and up to $1 million in fines on each count.
Verso Corporation announced Thursday that the bankruptcy court presiding over Verso's Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding yesterday authorized Verso to reject a specialty paper supply contract with Expera Specialty Solutions.
The final eight hourly employees at the WestRock paper mill in Newberg, Oregon were terminated this month, meaning there are no more union-represented workers onsite.
Nippon Paper Industries says it plans to build a large-scale cellulose nanofiber (CNF) production facility at the Ishinomaki mill in Miyagi, Japan.
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