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Catalyst Paper Corporation announced it is converting Powell River mill's paper machine 11 to produce a paper-towel product, a niche market manager Fred Chinn said has growth opportunity.
The curtailment will begin 7 a.m. Monday and "is expected to last seven days for the entire mill and will be extended an additional two days for certain product grades and paper machines," the company said in a press release. No other KapStone mills will be affected.
Orient Paper noted that the temporary suspension of production will not impact its tissue paper operations.
The fire was reported at 10:15 a.m. on Saturday.
Dow Chemical and the DuPont Co. have announced that they are merging in a $130 billion chemical industry megadeal.
A Boston-based investment firm has completed its purchase of the Lincoln Paper and Tissue mill and said it's open to selling the facility to a company that will restart the mill.
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.
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.
Epson's PaperLab machine reportedly breaks down workplace wastepaper and fashions it into fresh sheets on-site.
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.
Supremex Inc. says it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Premier Envelope Ltd and affiliated operating entities.
Milas is a leading producer of specialist corrugated packaging and displays in Turkey.
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.
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