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Australia's consumer watchdog has lost its appeal over a ruling that Kimberly-Clark had not misled customers when it said its wipes were flushable.
It's the third area mill to announce a shutdown or reduction since the COVID-19 pandemic officially reached Minnesota in early March.
Workers at the Sonoco paper mill in Quinte West spent their last day on the job June 12 after the company decided earlier this year to shutter the mill and focus operations in South Carolina.
A fire at the WestRock facility in Mooresville on June 12 was controlled by the fire sprinkler system, limiting damage to a single piece of production equipment and raw cardboard material near the fire's location, Fire Marshal Geoff Woolard reported in a news release. Still, the damage could be up to $2 million.
Green Bay police are saying little about an industrial accident that killed a 52-year-old man at Green Bay Packaging on June 12.
No injuries were reported.
The curtailment is expected to start in the last week June and will impact the mill's 253 employees, a statement issued by the company on Thursday said.
Made from a 100% paper-based combination of Hexacomb and corrugated, the Thermo Box keeps frozen food including fish at temperatures similar to expanded polystyrene (EPS) boxes.
Pulp digester reduced expenses by $10 million -- not $30 million.
Verso Corp. said Tuesday, June 9, that it expects to lay off about 1,000 employees, as it idles idles mills in Duluth, Minnesota and Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin this summer, given the accelerated decline in demand for graphic paper given the COVID-19 pandemic.
The parent company for the idled Northern Pulp mill says it has filed an appeal with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court related to a ministerial order issued last month for the management of the site.
A man who alleges he suffered severe burns and permanent disfigurement while working at the Graphic Packaging mill in Queen City, Texas, in January 2019 is suing the company in a Texarkana federal court.
Welch Packaging, a multi-site family-owned business concentrated in the Midwest, has acquired Excel Display and Packaging, a supplier of retail packaging, displays, and food packaging along with digital print capabilities located in Aurora, Illinois.
A small fire occurred Thursday afternoon, June 4, at Roseburg Forest Products in Coquille, Oregon.
International Paper Co. (IP) has spoken out against the killing of George Floyd, and racial injustice in America.
The fire is being investigated as arson.
The Board of Södra has appointed Lotta Lyrå as new President and CEO. She will take office this year and thereby replace CFO Peter Karlsson, who has been Interim President since 20 February this year.
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has concluded an agreement to supply Klabin, Brazil's largest producer and exporter of packaging paper, with three Kalmar Zero Emission rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs).
The conversion of Stora Enso's Oulu paper mill into a containerboard mill has received an environmental permit from the Regional State Administrative Agency of Northern Finland.
The natural gas boiler was unloaded at the mill in Green Bay to replace the coal-fired one.
Mercer International Inc. reports that its Celgar mill, in addition to regularly planned maintenance downtime of five days, will be taking approximately 30 days of additional downtime (aggregate 52,000 ADMTs) in July 2020.
UPM Jyväskylä plywood mill employs 167 people.
Employees at Sappi's Cloquet paper mill are being temporarily laid off in rotations as demand for the mill's products wane amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Verso Corp., owner of the Luke Paper Mill, said no offers have been tendered on the property and it is preparing the site for sale to third parties for alternative uses.
Van Den Heuvel was convicted in U.S. District Court in Green Bay of fraudulently soliciting loans and investments to pursue his business, Green Box, which he represented as an operation that would convert solid waste into consumer products and energy.
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