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The European Union's antitrust authority opened a full-blown investigation into the proposed merger of Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co., which could require the companies to make bigger concessions to clear their blockbuster deal.
Weyerhaeuser Company is closing the doors on its lumber and plywood mills in Columbia Falls, Montana, which will result in more than 70 workers losing their jobs.
Veritiv Corporation announced the construction of its new Canadian headquarters and warehouse in Mississauga, Ontario.
International Paper is currently the subject of several reports on Bloomberg around a prospective takeover.
A federal agency has settled its $5 million civil lawsuit against Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC by agreeing to seek restitution for a lesser amount when claims filed by unsecured creditors against the bankrupt mill's estate are processed, officials said Monday.
About 500 bales of cardboard caught fire at a WestRock facility on Sunday afternoon, leaving massive clouds of smoke hovering over the area.
The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded its Hart-Scott-Rodino review of International Paper's announced acquisition of Weyerhaeuser's pulp business without taking any action. Regulatory reviews in other non-U.S. jurisdictions are ongoing.
A bomb threat Thursday at a WestRock facility in Fernandina Beach is under investigation.
Largest U.S.-based paper mill to receive modernized debarking, chipping and chip distribution systems...
The News Journal of Wilmington reported this week that officials have confirmed that the Chemours Co., a chemicals business spun off from the DuPont Co. last year, will be keeping its headquarters in Delaware.
News outlets are reporting that Venezuela's socialist government is renaming a plant it has taken over from U.S.-based multinational Kimberly-Clark Corp after a local indigenous warrior.
About 170 million packs of wet wipes a year will be made at Kimberly-Clark's facility in Flint after the completion of a new production line.
The formation of a team to help the state's forest industry come up with a long-term economic plan, aided by nearly $8 million in grants, is just the start of continued investment in and development of the hard-hit industry, the state's congressional delegation said Friday.
Catalyst Paper has permanently shut down Paper Machine No. 9 at the Powell River mill in British Columbia, Canada.
Businessman Ron Van Den Heuvel, the founder of Green Box NA Green Bay LLC who is involved in a federal bank fraud case, is being appointed a public defender.
Bemis said will close four plants in Latin America to improve efficiencies and reduce fixed costs. Total program charges incurred throughout 2016 and 2017 are estimated to be $28 to $30 million (at current exchange rates).
Packaging Corporation of America notified the state's labor agency this week that it will close its Commerce City plant on Oct. 7 and lay off 70 workers.
Tissue manufacturer Kruger Products L.P. has announced it's investing $55 million to add a paper machine at its Crabtree plant in the Lanaudiere region of central Quebec. The project will increase the facility's overall production by approximately 20,000 metric tonnes annually and will help to preserve approximately 600 jobs.
Kotkamills' new 400,000 tonnes/year consumer board machine, BM2, has started production in Kotka, Finland. A range of folding boxboards will be produced under the brand name AEGLE and a range of food service boards under the brand name ISLA.
Pratt Industries has been named one of America's largest private companies by Forbes magazine.
One employee and two firefighters were injured during the battle to extinguish an intensely smoky fire at Palatka's Georgia-Pacific plant Wednesday evening,
Shareholders for agriculture and chemicals companies DuPont and Dow Chemical have approved their merger. After it's complete, the century-old companies plan to break up into three parts.
Sun Paper Industry of China says the planned early 2017 construction start for a $1.3 billion superproject in Clark County, Arkansas will likely be pushed back because of ongoing pre-engineering and feasibility studies for the bio-product paper mill.
The KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. mill in North Charleston, South Carolina is getting a new wood-chip supplier in Carolina Chips, which said Tuesday it will invest $32 million.
A 270,000-square-foot box and paper manufacturing facility on Jacksonville's Northside will close in September and will result in 127 workers who will be laid off.
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