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Cashmere UltraLuxe® Bathroom Tissue introduces the Fleur rating system, recognizing some of the most beautiful restaurant bathrooms in Toronto in the Cashmere UltraLuxe® Bathroom Guide.

Interest in raw materials from family forestry is growing as more and more people see the importance of the forest and opportunities to contribute important solutions to the great challenges of our time. As part of meeting demand, Södra implements price increases on several timber ranges.

This spring, UPM launched a new service package, UPM Nature Management Services, to provide Finnish forest owners with more options to enhance biodiversity. The first nature management services to be offered are assisting forest owners in applying for an environmental subsidy and a controlled burning service. More new services will be available later this year.

Marina Madanat, Executive Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, and a member of the Huhtamaki Global Executive Team, has decided to leave Huhtamaki to pursue other career opportunities.

Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, inaugurated its upgraded folding boxboard machine in Husum, Sweden, on the 11th of April. Invited to the inauguration ceremony were, among others, project partners and representatives of Örnsköldsvik municipality, Swedish parliament and the forest industry.

Kevin M. Fogarty to serve as Non-Executive Chair of the Board of Directors for the proposed newly combined company.

Capgemini announced that it signed a global, multi-year agreement with Valmet in Finland late in 2023.

In a recent article from McGill University, it was announced that researchers at the university have discovered an innovative approach in improving energy efficiency of carbon conversion using waste material from pulp and paper.

In most jurisdictions, it is illegal to hold a cell phone while driving a car. Yet in most paper mills, one does not see this sort of restriction, indeed, anything close to it. Should we have similar restrictions in mills? I think so...there is almost no place in a pulp and paper mill where a phone is appropriate.

The partnership provides high-quality, sustainable products to one of America's most renowned builders.

Report reveals 32% of marketers are using AI and 31% plan to use the technology to support print marketing.

Stora Enso appoints Tuomas Hallenberg as Executive Vice President of the Forest division and a member of the Group Leadership Team (GLT).

Rauma sawmill in Finland has been designed to reach productivity levels that are three times higher than typical outputs in Europe.

Engineering and related work has begun, and startup of the machine is scheduled for 2026. At peak construction, 500 construction and contract-related workers are expected to be onsite at the mill.

Canfor Corp. is closing its Jackson mill in southern Alabama at the end of June as part of a restructuring of its operations in the state.

Sonoco Products Company, one of the largest global sustainable packaging companies, and ENGIE North America ("ENGIE") announced that they have entered into a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement ("VPPA") for production from ENGIE's Big Sampson Wind Project ("Big Sampson"), a wind power project currently under construction in Crockett County, Texas.

After promising results from the ongoing demonstration phase, Metsä Group has decided to conduct, in parallel with the demo phase, a pre-engineering project related to a possible first commercial-scale factory. Muoto™ packages are renewable and recyclable bioproducts that can be utilised in, e.g., takeaway, berry, tray, and combo packaging.

Consolidated forest tenure comes under control of Lake Babine First Nation.

LP NovaCore® Thermal Insulated Sheathing line expands with the addition of R3 and R7 thickness options.

Highcon announced that Menasha Packaging has placed an order for a Highcon Beam 2C digital die cutting system for corrugated production, to be installed at a North American site.

In the dynamic landscape of biological research, efficient preservation of nucleic acid samples is crucial for unlocking insights into the genetic makeup of various organisms.

The partnership will see the two companies collaborate to accelerate the transition from plastic to paper bags within the e-commerce marketplace in Europe at scale, and the solutions will be available to customers across all DS Smith markets in Europe.

UPM Raflatac's RafCycle™ recycling service recently won the 2024 Innovator Award for Innovation in a Recovery Technology or Practice at the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) Impact event.

For two years, SCA has operated the world's first electric timber truck for timber transports between SCA's timber terminal Gimonäs and Obbola paper mill.