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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.
Sappi says it is now reinforcing the performance capabilities and benefits of its release liner portfolio with several investments and activities.
Solenis LLC announced Tuesday that it has signed an agreement to acquire the shares in Lostris International B.V. and Wester Blend B.V., privately-held companies primarily focused on supplying specialty chemicals to the pulp and tissue and towel markets.
Former Lincoln Paper and Tissue sales director John McMahon has a new pitch to restart a two-machine speciality tissue business in Lincoln by June.
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Firefighters say there was a fire involving a forklift at an RR Donnelley facility in Spartanburg County on Friday.
Weyerhaeuser Company plans to commit up to 3 million acres of private timberland in Washington and Oregon to support a variety of conservation efforts focused on reintroducing the North American Fisher throughout the West.
A dust explosion happened around midnight Thursday at International Paper's facility in Richland.
Neenah Paper will pay $33,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the commission announced this month.
About 214 people who will lose their jobs in May with the closure of the Madison Paper mill have been cleared to receive federal aid to help them adapt to new jobs or careers.
Jay mill owner Verso Corp. has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to step in and decide whether the town of Jay should hand back as much as $11.4 million in taxes assessed during the past three years.
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