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Production of paper ended in December 2023. The closure of the site should be completed during the second calendar quarter of 2024.
WestRock plans to close its Lexington facility and lay off 153 workers later this year, according to a filing with the N.C. Department of Commerce. The cuts will begin on March 18, according to the filing.
The two countries have been arguing for decades about the lumber exports, which U.S. producers say are unfairly subsidized.
PT Riau Andalan Paperboard International, part of APRIL Group, has initiated the commissioning of its new IDR 33.4 trillion (US$ 2.3 billion) paperboard manufacturing plant, bringing it a step closer to full-scale commercial production, which is expected later this year.
Mill has been slapped with a $25,500 penalty for releasing more than one million litres of toxic waste into the Salish Sea.
UPM Raflatac plans to open a new state-of-the-art slitting and distribution terminal in the Toronto, Canada metropolitan area. The new facility will improve service and quality to UPM Raflatac's customers in Eastern Canada and Northeastern U.S., while strengthening relationships in the region.
Graphic Packaging International plans to close its facility at 800 Westinghouse Blvd. on March 31, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) recently filed with the North Carolina Department of Commerce. The closing will result in 112 layoffs starting March 11.
A company spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the decision to close the plant came after an evaluation of the company's portfolio.
Company partnering with Chilliwack's Teralta to use sodium chlorate byproducts to help run pulp mill.
Clearwater Paper Corporation, a premier supplier of quality tissue and bleached paperboard products, announced that it has had to temporarily suspend its operations in Lewiston, Idaho due to uncertainty in natural gas supply and damage caused by extreme cold weather. The company is restarting equipment and production at the facility as weather conditions permit.
Stephen Prentiss, labor and employment counsel for Marcal, which is based in New Jersey, confirmed Tuesday morning that the Vermont mill would be closing.
The state-of-the-art facility, which came online in Q4 2023, adds new capacity to the company's water-based adhesive manufacturing. This becomes the third location in the Greif Adhesives Group network, along with Kernersville, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Texas.
The new owners plan to sell certain mill assets that are no longer usable on the property. An auction is scheduled for May 7-10, 2024.
Seth Kursman, the Vice President of Corporate Communications, Sustainability and Government Affairs at Resolute Forest Products, says the fire started in part of the building's power distribution system.
PaperWorks, based in the Philadelphia suburb of Fort Washington, filed paperwork Thursday with the N.C. Department of Commerce that stated it was permanently closing the Montgomery County facility for "financial reasons" but was not more specific. None of the employees who work there are part of a union.
J.D. Irving's Grand Lake Timber in New Brunswick is celebrating the commission of a new biomass boiler which will significantly reduce fossil fuel consumption and contribute to a sustainable future. The project marks a step towards an eco-friendlier lumber drying process and will allow the mill to substantially reduce its carbon footprint.
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. announced that it will close its sawmill in Maxville, Florida and indefinitely curtail operations at its sawmill in Huttig, Arkansas by the end of this month.
Atlas Holdings has entered into a definitive agreement to sell RedBuilt, LLC to Hampton Lumber Mills, Inc. The transaction is anticipated to close in the Q1 2024, subject to customary closing conditions. Terms were not disclosed.
Hood Container Corporation announced that it has acquired the corrugated packaging business of Sumter, SC based Sumter Packaging Corporation. This includes all of Sumter's design, manufacturing, assembly and fulfillment operations in Sumter, SC as well as the business manufactured and serviced from the Statesville, NC facility.
The property is adjacent to Kimberly-Clark's Beech Island facility, which began production in 1968, three years after the company revealed its plan to purchase an industrial site in Aiken.
Metsä Group plans to discontinue the sawn timber production in Merikarvia, Finland. The production would end by summer 2024. The change negotiations at the Merikarvia sawmill concern all the sawmill's 79 employees.
Several fire departments responded to a two-alarm fire at Soundview Paper in Putney on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024.
A small fire occurred at a paper mill in Kalamazoo and was quickly extinguished, the company said.
A sheen that was discovered in the Spokane River last week was caused by an equipment failure at the Inland Empire Paper Company, the Department of Ecology says.
At 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, employees at ST Paper's Duluth plant were informed of a likely pending sale of the facility to Sofidel, a privately-held Italian multinational company that ranks as the world's seventh-largest manufacturer of tissue paper.
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