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Mondi is seeking to acquire more companies making the type of flexible packaging used for items like pet-food pouches, as the South African manufacturer taps growing demand from the consumer-goods industry.
Diversified business group Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) -- founded by conglomerate Sukanto Tanoto -- is on track to build the first integrated viscose fiber factory in Indonesia, which it claims will help meet domestic demand of viscose and drive exports.
Veritiv Corporation announced the launch of its new corporate community engagement and philanthropy program, Veritiv Connects. The program will focus corporate giving and employee volunteer efforts on shaping success for local communities while promoting a healthy and vibrant society.
U.S. packaging group WestRock has put a unit making soap dispensers and perfume sprayers up for sale in a potential $1 billion deal, as it seeks to streamline its portfolio after a recent merger, three people close to the matter said.
A new trial date has been set for a businessman and his wife charged with fraud. Green Box founder Ron Van Den Heuvel and Kelly Yessman Van Den Heuvel are now scheduled to stand trial July 31, according to court records.
Boreal Bioref Oy, a new Finnish company, said on Thursday it had signed a letter of intent with China's CAMC Engineering over an investment in a new 780-million euro ($836 million) pulp mill project.
Indonesia's second-largest pulp and paper firm PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) has completed its third paper mill and set its operational debut for next year to increase production and expand its exports to the international market.
Kimberly-Clark Corporation announced that Michael D. Hsu, currently group president North American Consumer Products, has been named to the role of president and chief operating officer (COO) and will join K-C's board of directors, effective January 1, 2017.
Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. are expecting to get formal objections to their $60 billion merger from European Union regulators as soon as next month, listing potential antitrust concerns with their bid to form the world's biggest chemical company, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
Firefighters on Monday gained control of a fire at a Clearwater paper facility in North Las Vegas that shut down traffic on a surface street for several hours.
Fortress Paper Ltd. has announced a major investment to advance its strategic project of utilizing birch to manufacture dissolving pulp at the Fortress Specialty Cellulose Mill located in Thurso, Québec.
Expera Coated Products, a business unit of Expera Specialty Solutions, has made official its expansion plans at the former Printpack building in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.
Verso Corp., which operates a mill in Jay, is consolidating its administrative offices and restructuring the paper company into two divisions as it continues to seek ways to trim costs.
Burrows Paper Corp. of Little Falls, New York, announced Friday that it was selling its packaging division to Novolex of Charlotte, North Carolina, and its paper division to Twin Rivers, in a deal that is expected to close later this year.
A paper mill that serves as a key economic driver in northern Manitoba has received an 11th hour rescue, less than a month before it was slated to be shut down.
Maine is poised to finally begin shipping wood chips to Europe for power generation next year if plans under way at Eastport and Searsport stay on schedule.
Heeding concerns that a proposed franchise fee could jeopardize the future of Verso Corp.'s paper mill in West Duluth and the 260 jobs it provides, city councilors unanimously voted Monday night to roll back the fee the company could have seen tacked onto its mammoth electric bill.
Five people were hospitalized after a hydrogen sulfide gas leak at a pulp mill in Kemi, north-west Finland on Monday morning.
Mill employees in The Pas have voted in favor of allowing potential buyers of the town's kraft paper mill a break from pension solvency payments.
The Boards of Directors of Munksjö Oyj and Ahlstrom Corporation have announced the combination of the two companies through a merger.
Paper-based packaging manufacturer Smurfit Kappa UK has announced the acquisition of UK company Saxon Packaging.
Domtar's Ashdown Mill will mark a new day in the mill and company's history on Nov. 3, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the startup of a newly converted fluff pulp machine.
The No. 10 Paper Machine (PM10) rebuild project is proceeding on time and on budget, as revealed by Kruger Inc. during a press briefing held this Thursday, November 3, 2016, at the Trois-Rivières Mill.
UPM is planning to permanently reduce its graphic paper capacity in Europe by 305,000 tonnes.
A fire in the upper level of the Weyerhaeuser wood mill in Heaters, near Flatwoods in Braxton County, caused substantial damage to the building Tuesday and sent one contractor to an area hospital for minor injuries, according to a Braxton County dispatcher.
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