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About 70 employees are expected to lose their jobs next year when the Voith facility in Wilson closes its doors, company officials said Tuesday.
Södra is divesting Södra Wood Grimslöv to German-based Soernsen Group. Trade union negotiations have been initiated regarding the transfer of the operation.
Tembec completed the sale of its sawmill and related forestry assets located in Senneterre, Quebec to Resolute Forest Products. The sale also included certain working capital items.
The company said Tuesday that the Androscoggin Mill will temporarily idle the No. 3 paper machine, "reducing annual coated paper production capacity by approximately 200,000 tons."
The Domtar Hawesville Mill was recognized by the Kentucky Association of Manufacturers (KAM) as the Kentucky Manufacturer of the Year in the large business category.
They were flying over forest land for timber harvesting company Rayonier.
Quad/Graphics Inc. said Thursday it is spending millions of dollars on new equipment at its Dallas printing plant and is expanding employment there.
Norbord Inc. and Louisiana-Pacific Corp. have agreed to exchange ownership of two wood panel mills in Quebec. Financial terms weren't disclosed.
Kruger Products L.P. announced it is investing $55 million to add a paper machine at its Crabtree facility, in the Lanaudière region. The project will increase the facility's overall production by approximately 20,000 metric tonnes annually and will help to consolidate approximately 600 jobs.
Catalyst Paper says it is now considering its options if the deal to sell the company to the Indian-based Kejriwal Group International falls through.
Arauco announced that it has received all required official approvals to build its new particleboard plant located in Grayling, Michigan.
Suzano Papel & Celulose SA, Brazil's second biggest pulp producer, has agreed to pay $259 million for land and a small hydropower dam as part of an effort to secure supply of cellulose at lower costs for a key mill in the country.
A pair of fire departments responded to a report of a gas leak near Domtar in Rothschild, Wisconsin on Tuesday.
Oji Holdings will begin mass production next year of a lightweight plant-derived material that can replace carbon fiber in many applications.
Andritz has received an upgrade order from Sappi North America for a high-capacity debarking line and woodyard equipment to be installed at Sappi's Somerset Mill in Skowhegan, Maine.
Domtar Corp. announced Wednesday its Kingsport, Tenn. paper mill is being idled to reduce inventory.
Eight awarded prestigious Williams Leadership Scholarships.
The blaze broke out near machinery around paper bales off a loading dock. Crews were on the scene for about two hours.
Enviva Partners, LP announced that Enviva Wilmington Holdings, LLC (the "Hancock JV"), a joint venture between an affiliate of Enviva Holdings, LP and affiliates of John Hancock Life Insurance Company, has offered to sell the entity which owns the wood pellet production plant in Sampson County, North Carolina, along with a 10-year, 420,000 metric ton per year ("MTPY") off-take contract with an affiliate of DONG Energy, to the Partnership.
10 fire departments responded to a fire at the Georgia-Pacific OSB facility in Gladys, Virginia.
An industrial dryer fire early Friday at a WestRock facility was quickly extinguished by Battle Creek, Michigan firefighters.
Catalyst Paper Corporation announced that Sunvault Energy Inc. and Aboriginal Power Corp. have discontinued the lawsuit previously commenced against Catalyst.
Federal prosecutors added multiple charges against businessman Ron Van Den Heuvel, the founder of Green Box NA Green Bay LLC, who is facing bank fraud conspiracy charges.
Resolute Forest Products Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Richard Garneau today reaffirmed the company's support of free, unencumbered access for softwood lumber exports from Central Canada (Quebec and Ontario) to the United States.
A subcontractor employee killed last week while on the job at the WestRock Co. plant in Covington died from blunt force trauma to the neck and chest, an autopsy has determined.
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