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At closing, WestRock will pay a total consideration of approximately $105 million.
Dow Chemical and DuPont, two of the biggest and oldest companies in the American chemical industry, are in talks to merge in what would be one of the largest transactions in a year full of huge deals.
Suzano announced that it has launched production and sales of fluff pulp, which was named Eucafluff.
Epson's PaperLab machine reportedly breaks down workplace wastepaper and fashions it into fresh sheets on-site.
Attorneys defending a $5 million class action lawsuit against Glatfelter and its Chillicothe paper mill say those bringing the suit have not provided enough facts and specifics about their claims to justify the case going to trial.
Tranlin Inc.'s $2 billion paper plant in Chesterfield County, scheduled to be fully operational in 2020, will start partial production as early as 2018, a company official said this week.
Milas is a leading producer of specialist corrugated packaging and displays in Turkey.
Supremex Inc. says it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Premier Envelope Ltd and affiliated operating entities.
Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. and Eastman Chemical Company have settled their legal dispute and entered into a new cellulose specialties purchase and sale agreement.
An air ambulance and paramedics were called to the Kemsley Paper Mill Tuesday after a man fell from a scaffolding.
APRIL Group announced on Tuesday that it would double its peatland restoration activities in Indonesia and invest $100 million for the next ten years in conservation and restoration activities.
Chetwynd Mechanical Pulp ceased production in September in hopes of weathering low commodity prices, with a plan to restart in January, Deputy CEO Pedro Chang said in October.
Now, the closure has been extended to March 2016.
A worker was installing a handrail on a tower at the West Fraser Pulp and Paper Mills in Hinton when he became tangled in a piece of equipment and died.
The Valley Packaging Division's new plant in Pulaski, Tennessee will incorporate the latest manufacturing technology. Additionally, the plant layout will contribute to efficient flow and improved waste reduction and safe work areas.
The facility is expected to break ground in 2016 and start operations in 2018, Sun Paper spokesman Song Weihua said.
JD Irving's pulp mill in west Saint John was operating normally Monday after a scrubber unit and boiler were temporarily taken off line following a weekend fire.
Cenveo announced this week that it has been actively marketing the sale of its packaging business to multiple strategic parties.
Twin Rivers Paper Company says it has recently completed a series of upgrades to its No. 7 Paper Machine in Madawaska, enhancing the overall quality, efficiency and capabilities of a machine instrumental to manufacturing products supporting the specialty packaging, publishing, and label markets.
The U.S. International Trade Commission released the decision papers on Wednesday after ruling last month that the U.S. paper industry was "materially injured" by imports of supercalendered paper from three mills in Canada owned by Port Hawkesbury Paper, Irving Pulp and Paper in New Brunswick and Resolute Forest Products in Quebec.
The German paper mill Arctic Paper Mochenwangen will cease operations in December.
After three months of consultation owner DS Smith confirmed it is shutting Wansbrough Paper Mill, ending 265 years of paper-making in the town.
Resolute Forest Products is entering the tissue market earlier than planned after buying Florida producer Atlas Paper Holdings for US $156 million, including working capital.
Verso Corp. is facing bankruptcy as the paper company struggles with mounting losses amid a decline in demand and rising imports.
Asia Pulp & Paper said on Thursday that it has completed over 400 dams to block plantation perimeter canals in APP suppliers' concessions on peatland in Riau and South Sumatra, as part of efforts to provide a long term solution to check forest fires.
One challenge looms large over the future of Maine's paper industry: all of the state's mills are different...
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