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The Montreal-based pulp, paper and lumber producer said a machine at its mill in Augusta, Ga., isn't competitive because of the high U.S. dollar. About 100 jobs will be affected by the closure.

Brazilian cellulose firm Eldorado Brasil will develop a biomass project in Mato Grosso do Sul with the capacity to produce 50 MWh, local media reported on Wednesday.

Solar panels will provide approximately 45 percent of Pratt box plant's electrical usage, reducing the company's impact on the environment.

Leading pulp and paper producers from more than 30 countries converged on Vancouver this week to attend International Pulp Week, a three-day conference that is part of PwC's Global Forest Products Leadership Summit.

Motorola Solutions has announced a new managed services contract to implement a communications system for Chilean forestry company CMPC.

A Georgia-Pacific facility in Florida was locked down Tuesday after a recently fired employee made death threats against the mill before allegedly murdering three people before taking his own life.

Port Townsend Paper Corp. has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by more than half compared to emission levels a decade ago. And mill officials hope a new compressed natural gas (CNG) project, to be completed this year, will reduce emissions even further.

Wood Pellets Market was valued at USD 6,260.1 million in 2014 and is anticipated to reach USD 20,073.1 million by 2023, expanding at a CAGR of 14.1% between 2015 and 2023.

Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, is launching an efficiency improvement programme at the Husum integrated mill in Sweden. The efficiency improvement programme concerns all operations at the mill.

International Paper said the deal includes five pulp mills and two converting facilities that produce fluff pulp, softwood pulp and specialty pulp to be used in a range of consumer goods, including diapers, tissue and textiles.

Stora Enso says it has successfully converted a fine paper machine at Varkaus Mill to produce virgin-fibre-based containerboard.

The spills at Verso's paper mill in the western Maryland town of Luke included 9,500 gallons of synthetic latex on Sept. 23 and some concentrated red dye on Oct. 2.

Little Rapids Corp., of Green Bay, says it's spending $40 million on tissue-making technology at its Shawano Paper Mill in Shawano.

The town of Jay, Maine has agreed to lower three prior years of disputed property taxes for paper mill owner Verso Corp. and set a cap on its gross tax bills through 2020, delivering the bankrupt papermaker at least $4 million in future tax credits.

RR Donnelley plans to permanently close a plant in Portland, resulting in the loss of 113 jobs.

A Wisconsin paper mill faces federal fines in the death of an employee last October.

Chinese pulp and paper manufacturer Sun Paper will spend more than $1 billion to build a mill in Arkadelphia that will employ about 250 people, Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the company's chairman and founder, Li Hongxin, announced this week.

Nippon Paper Industries will begin tests next spring on a process it plans to use to mass-produce efficient-burning wood pellets as a biomass fuel for electricity generation starting in fiscal 2018.

LEIPA will convert the mill into liner production. The planned production capacity would be approximately 450,000 tonnes of liner annually.

WestRock Company on Friday announced that its Board of Directors has approved the completion of the separation of its specialty chemicals business from the remaining businesses of WestRock to form Ingevity Corporation.

The Australian unit of Delaware-based Solenis has agreed to buy the Nuplex assets, and the deal is expected to settle on June 30, Nuplex said in a statement.

A fire broke out at the R.R. Donnelley facility in Danville, Kentucky at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

This month 10 years ago, Weyerhaeuser closed the Prince Albert Pulp Mill, costing 700 people their jobs.

The auction of thousands of items from shuttered mills in Lincoln and Old Town started Tuesday at the Hilton Garden Inn with paper and tissue machines sold to two different bidders, all but ending any chance of restarting the industry in Lincoln.

Catalyst Paper has restarted its No. 12 paper machine, bringing back the 51 employees furloughed last fall and supporting plans to hire more depending on order volume.