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U.S. trade officials have agreed to give an expedited review to duties imposed on Canadian paper imports at the request of UPM Madison and Verso Paper, which is going through a bankruptcy restructuring.
An early morning Monday fire at a Wisconsin Cascades Tissue Group facility was quickly controlled by firefighters.
Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is rebranding itself as an environmental champion by announcing its successful efforts in forest conservation and peatland restoration.
KapStone has won a key legal victory in its ongoing dispute with the pulp and paper union, and it will not be forced to return to the bargaining table, at least for now.
Miami University Paper Science and Engineering Foundation Executive Director Jon Kerr, a longtime pulp and paper industry veteran, will be retiring, the foundation announced Friday afternoon.
An employee at Clearwater Paper's Lewiston facility was taken to the hospital Wednesday afternoon after suffering chemical burns.
A Chinese company that expressed interest in November in building a $1.36 billion pulp mill in south Arkansas is also considering other states for the mill.
Metsä Board says it has started up a new folding boxboard production line at its Husum mill in Sweden.
Andrew Liveris will step down as chief executive of the Dow Chemical after the chemical heavyweight completes its merger with rival DuPont and the three-way split of the new combined company.
A heavy-machine operator was using a bulldozer to pile up hog fuel when the machine fell off the high end of the pile, the coroners service said.
Resolute Forest Products will take downtime at its Comtois and St-Thomas stud mills in Quebec starting 5 February 2016. The company cited unfavorable market conditions, and plans to restart the mills as conditions allow.
One worker was sent to the hospital Sunday night when a lotion coating machine caught fire at a Kimberly-Clark facility.
Industrial logging will be prohibited across 85 per cent of forested lands within B.C.'s Great Bear Rainforest, according to a long-awaited landmark agreement announced Monday in Vancouver by the province, First Nations, environmentalists and forest companies.
Resolute FP Canada Inc. pleaded guilty and has been fined $150,000 after a worker was burned following an explosion of wood dust.
The company stirred up controversy last year, when the SEC temporarily restricted the use of the paper producer's Singapore Green Label certification, after it emerged that there were alleged links to the Indonesian forest fires causing the transboundary haze.
The WestRock Newberg facility will permanently close and WestRock Co. officials say it will not reopen, a change from what until now had been described as an "indefinite idle" status.
The Crofton Mill has been shut down until further notice after an employee died in an industrial accident late Wednesday.
The same company marketing machinery at the shuttered Lincoln paper mill purchased the Old Town mill from Expera on Wednesday. The company says it's had interest in a wide range of uses for the pulp mill.
The former FutureMark Alsip mill, which was idled in 2014 and later sold, has begun production, according to sources.
Madison Paper Industries has cut back production by two days a week, the mill's union president said Tuesday, citing declining demand as the reason the company gave for a move that will result in less pay for workers.
Verso has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after trying for months to restructure the business without supervision of a bankruptcy court.
Mr. Gross retired in 2006 after serving the association for more than thirty years.
Anthony Pratt plans to launch a new business in Australia to supply recycled cardboard boxes to the booming e-tailing sector, replicating a division of his US operations, which he believes will grow to generate revenues of more than $US1 billion.
The Chemainus-based Halalt First Nation and its business partners are suing Catalyst Paper, alleging that a 59-year-old mill is trespassing and that the company has disclosed sensitive information, despite signing a confidentiality agreement.
Verso Corp. is preparing to file for bankruptcy protection as a grace period on a missed interest payment nears expiration, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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