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Heinzel will take over the Steyrermühl site from UPM on January 1st, 2024, according to an agreement signed in 2022, and will enter the market with a new range of unbleached and bleached kraft papers shortly thereafter.
Celgar now says it will curtail production from March 18 to 28.
Clearwater Paper is closing a consumer tissue converting and distribution facility in Thomaston, Ga., in a move that will affect 150 employees who will be given opportunities to seek open positions within the company.
According to officials, these changes will eliminate around 1,300 positions.
The Sonoco Hutchinson Paper Mill has closed, affecting over 100 employees as a result.
Successful completion of wet section rebuild by Toscotec; machine glazed PM2 produces specialty papers including MG grades, flexible packaging products.
Tolko Industries will restart its curtailed mills in Armstrong and Soda Creek next week.
Chilean pulp and wood panel maker Arauco, the forestry arm of industrial group Empresas Copec, on Wednesday estimated it could take a $50 million hit due to fires raging in the country's south.
The enterprise value of the transaction is approximately EUR 210 million.
Mercer International Inc. reported that it has signed its first major mass timber project contract with a large consumer products retailer. The project, which is comprised of cross-laminated timber panels, glue-laminated beams and connector elements, is expected to utilize four months of capacity at Mercer's Spokane facility on a one-shift basis over the course of 2023.
Canfor Corp. says it is does not see a path forward to restarting its pulp mill operations in Taylor, and has begun exploring alternative uses for the site.
Kamloops council has agreed to send a letter of support to the provincial government.
Nitto Danboru is a corrugated packaging manufacturer established in 1966.
The construction work on the new warehouse is expected to start at the end of 2023, to be put into operation in the summer of 2025.
Domtar Corporation, a part of the Paper Excellence Group, and First Quality Enterprises, Inc. announced that they have entered into an agreement to sell Domtar's Dryden pulp mill to First Quality.
The Paper Excellence Group, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Domtar Corporation, on April 1 announced the successful closing of its previously announced acquisition of Resolute Forest Products Inc.
Mercer has promoted its Vice President, Controller, Richard Short to succeed Mr. Ure as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary.
Some pulp mill employees affected by pending closure have already left Canfor.
Smurfit Kappa is investing €27 million in a state-of-the-art new waste management and recovery facility at its Nervión paper mill in Iurreta, Spain. The investment will see the mill adopt a fully circular production process involving the biggest landfill reduction project Smurfit Kappa has undertaken to date to support the delivery of its 2025 sustainability commitments.
The person suffered multiple injuries. Officials say those injuries are not life-threatening.
February 27, 2023
From news reports
Resolute Forest Products announced that it has received all regulatory approvals for its planned sale to Domtar and expects the deal will close in early March.
February 27, 2023
From news reports
Company hasn't settled discrepancies 3 years after cyberattack, unions say.
Cascades announced the conversion of its Bear Island paper mill in October 2020. The facility, which is in Ashland, Virginia, will produce lightweight, 100-percent-recycled linerboard and medium and initially was projected to cost around $380 million. The company now reports the total cost of the project at around $515 million to $525 million, with $396 million invested in the project to date (2018-2022).
Resource industry analyst Ben Parfitt predicts at least one more Interior pulp mill could be targeted for permanent closure.
Employees were told doors will be closed between March 6 and 9 rather than later in the spring as previously announced.
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