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Universal Forest Products Inc. signed a definitive agreement to buy idX Corp. in a deal valued at about $68 million.
Four workers were taken to hospital with severe smoke inhalation after a fire in a paper machine at the Resolute Forest Products facility in Gatineau on Wednesday night.
Rolls of tissue were passed around the dozens of people gathered outside the local pulp mill Wednesday afternoon, but not because anybody was upset. The atmosphere was festive as the crowd celebrated the formal opening of the St. Croix Tissue mill adjacent to Woodland Pulp.
Canadian tissue paper manufacturer Kruger Products Inc. is looking to boost its production and exports by investing $52 million in its Trenton, Ont. operations.
Stora Enso has completed the divestment of its Kabel coated mechanical paper mill in Germany, to Kabel Premium Pulp & Paper GmbH, owned by a German based investor group.
Packaging Corporation of America has completed its acquisition of TimBar Corporation, a large independent corrugated products producer, in a cash-free, debt-free transaction. Funding for the acquisition came from a new $385 million five-year term loan facility.
A man was treated for inhalation of chemical fumes following a sodium hypochlorite spill Monday morning at Expera Specialty Solutions.
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and the Finnish state export credit agency Finnvera Oyj have signed a 9.5-year loan agreement on a $225 million (Euro 199 million) expansion of a eucalyptus pulp mill project in Brazil.
Catalyst Paper is installing a $500,000 pump system in Lake Cowichan to maintain minimum water levels required in the Cowichan River.
The biggest economic development deal in Chesterfield, Virginia's history appears to have fallen off schedule - so much so that the company, Tranlin Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of China-based Shandong Tranlin Paper Co., has deferred accepting millions in state grants tied to the project.
Following a six-month investigation, Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) enforcement agents arrested two men on multiple felony charges.
A migrant laborer from Bihar was reportedly shredded in a machine used to make pulp in a paper mill located near Bhavani Sagar on Tuesday morning. Barring a small bone and a few pieces of the T-shirt that he wore, his entire body had turned into pulp.
Today about 85% of SCA's sales derives from the hygiene business and about 15% from the forest products business.
Tolko Industries Ltd. is shuttering its operations in The Pas as of Dec. 2, throwing more than 300 people out of work.
Three people died and nineteen were injured on Monday after a high intensity blast at Vishal Paper Mill.
Emergency crews say at least one person was airlifted from an International Paper mill in Texas on Saturday evening.
SCA will integrate its Business Unit MEIA (Middle East, India and Africa) into Business Unit Consumer Goods to leverage our scale and capabilities and to further increase efficiency. Combining these organizations will help to capture synergies and facilitate best practice sharing within the consumer business.
Resolute Forest Products will contribute $3.5 million to host pilot plant, while the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation adds $4.5 million.
Domtar Corporation announced that it had agreed to purchase the privately-held Home Delivery Incontinent Supplies Co., a leading, national direct-to-consumer provider of adult incontinence and related products for a total cash consideration of $45 million with a possible earn-out payment of up to $10 million.
More than a year after announcing plans to build a $2 billion, 850-acre paper mill along the James River in eastern Chesterfield, Tranlin has yet to acquire the biggest piece of property needed for the project.
Catalyst Paper Corporation announced that its four largest shareholders holding or controlling approximately 79% of its outstanding common shares, including accounts or funds managed by Mudrick Capital Management, L.P., Cyrus Capital Partners, LP, Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. and Stonehill Capital Management LLC, have amended the previously announced support agreement with Kejriwal Group International ("KGI") and accordingly filed amended Schedule 13Ds with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Weyerhaeuser Co. has declined to appeal a decision from a federal judge that found the company discriminated against a top union official for his labor organizing.
A fire that started at one of the papermaking machines at Twin Rivers Paper Co. on Sunday afternoon spread into the ductwork, making it difficult to extinguish, according to the local fire chief.
Columbus, Ohio firefighters battled a four-alarm fire at a WestRock recycling center on the South Side into Friday night. Officials advised nearby residents to stay indoors and avoid breathing in the smoke.
The Nippon Paper Industries USA plant and the company's newly built biomass cogeneration plant west of downtown Port Angeles are being marketed for sale by PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance LLC in southwest British Columbia.
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