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The United Steelworkers (USW) said that the union is saddened by the news that former United Paperworkers International Union President Wayne E. Glenn passed away on January 3, 2021.

After being told to go home and not return to their jobs at the Ponderay Newsprint Company mill near Usk, north of Newport, in June, the 148 employees, from trainee to company president, have been taking different steps to safeguard their futures.

Avery Dennison announced that it has acquired the business of Ohio-based ACPO Ltd. for the purchase price of $87.6 million, subject to certain post-closing adjustments. ACPO is a leader in pressure-sensitive overlaminate products for the label and flexible packaging markets and has approximately 170 employees.

Amcor plc announced that Ms. Susan Carter has been appointed as a non-executive director and a member of the Board's audit committee with effect from January 1, 2021.

International Paper has entered into an agreement to sell its 90.38% ownership interest in Olmuksan International Paper to Mondi Group for approximately €66 million.

No one was hurt after a fire erupted Monday morning, Jan. 4, 2021, in one of the paper machines at Paper Excellence Canada in Port Alberni.

New owner pledges renamed White Mountain Paper will be 'a leader among North American tissue and towel producers' .

Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, announced on 1 December 2020 that it had signed an agreement to sell a 30 percent stake in its Husum pulp mill in Sweden to the Swedish forest owners' cooperative (ekonomisk förening) Norra Skog.

Of the 103.5 million seedlings that were delivered, 63 million were pine seedlings, 33 million spruce seedlings, 7 million contorta pine seedlings and nearly 600,000 larch seedlings.

Ennis, Inc. announced that one of its wholly owned subsidiaries has entered into a Letter of Intent to acquire the assets and assume some liabilities of Infoseal LLC in Roanoke, Virginia. Infoseal provides pressure seal and tax forms products to independent print brokers and resellers.

One thing is for certain. People have adapted to several things during the pandemic, and online shopping has increased significantly. Online shopping will only increase.

Ralf W. Dieter was appointed CEO by the supervisory board of Homag Group AG, with effect from January 1, 2021. He will hold this position in addition to his function as CEO of Dürr AG.

Pro-Gest Group's founder Mr Bruno Zago announces that Mr Francesco Zago will be taking over the role of the Group CEO from 2021.

Atlas Engineered Products ("AEP") appoints Paul Andreola to its Board of Directors.

After nearly fifty-one years in the business, my anecdotal guess is that about half of capital projects are successful, meaning: on time, on budget and fulfilling the original scope. The rest suffer from a myriad of deficiencies.

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UFP Industries, Inc. announced that UFP Industrial, LLC, closed on its agreement to purchase 100 percent of the equity of PalletOne, Inc. for approximately $232 million.

Sappi Limited announces that Mr Valli Moosa has been appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa as deputy-chair and member of the inaugural Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission for South Africa.

Enviva and GoChain, a blockchain company that drives the adoption of impactful technologies, announced the initial results of a pilot program designed to enhance the traceability of sustainable biomass.

Smurfit Kappa has launched a new company called Recycling Dual GmbH in Germany. Recycling Dual offers an innovative and integrated holistic solution to track the entire life cycle of paper, cardboard and carton packaging.

The Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland has granted environmental and water supply permits to the Kemi bioproduct mill of Metsä Fibre. The environmental permit defines the limit values for the emissions of the new mill.

According to dispatch around 4:30 pm on December 27, 2020 a call came into Pickaway Sheriffs office of a man who got his hand caught in a machine within the Sofidel mill. When emergency responders got on scene they called for a medical helicopter to fly the man to Columbus Hospital for Critical care.

To wrap up this month on energy columns, I thought I would go to the brightest group I know in the energy business--the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (www.nrel.gov) in Golden, Colorado. NREL had an end of year seminar on the future of energy generation in the United States, 2020 - 2050.

ABB has completed a large-scale remote commissioning of winder drives, upgrading and commissioning PM5 installations at ITC's Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division mill in India.

Sun Chemical's SunTronic® IME inks are approved for production use in IMSE parts after passing the demanding materials testing program from TactoTek®, a Finland-based company that develops, industrializes and licenses in-mold structural electronics (IMSE™) technology.