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A worker was installing a handrail on a tower at the West Fraser Pulp and Paper Mills in Hinton when he became tangled in a piece of equipment and died.
The Valley Packaging Division's new plant in Pulaski, Tennessee will incorporate the latest manufacturing technology. Additionally, the plant layout will contribute to efficient flow and improved waste reduction and safe work areas.
The facility is expected to break ground in 2016 and start operations in 2018, Sun Paper spokesman Song Weihua said.
JD Irving's pulp mill in west Saint John was operating normally Monday after a scrubber unit and boiler were temporarily taken off line following a weekend fire.
Cenveo announced this week that it has been actively marketing the sale of its packaging business to multiple strategic parties.
Twin Rivers Paper Company says it has recently completed a series of upgrades to its No. 7 Paper Machine in Madawaska, enhancing the overall quality, efficiency and capabilities of a machine instrumental to manufacturing products supporting the specialty packaging, publishing, and label markets.
The U.S. International Trade Commission released the decision papers on Wednesday after ruling last month that the U.S. paper industry was "materially injured" by imports of supercalendered paper from three mills in Canada owned by Port Hawkesbury Paper, Irving Pulp and Paper in New Brunswick and Resolute Forest Products in Quebec.
The German paper mill Arctic Paper Mochenwangen will cease operations in December.
After three months of consultation owner DS Smith confirmed it is shutting Wansbrough Paper Mill, ending 265 years of paper-making in the town.
Resolute Forest Products is entering the tissue market earlier than planned after buying Florida producer Atlas Paper Holdings for US $156 million, including working capital.
Verso Corp. is facing bankruptcy as the paper company struggles with mounting losses amid a decline in demand and rising imports.
Asia Pulp & Paper said on Thursday that it has completed over 400 dams to block plantation perimeter canals in APP suppliers' concessions on peatland in Riau and South Sumatra, as part of efforts to provide a long term solution to check forest fires.
One challenge looms large over the future of Maine's paper industry: all of the state's mills are different...
Weyerhaeuser is buying Plum Creek for $8.4 billion to form the nation's largest private owner of timberland, the Seattle-area firms announced Sunday.
Along with the Pickaway County announcement, Sofidel also disclosed on Thursday that it has acquired plants in Green Bay, Wis., and Hattiesburg, Miss. The latter plant was under construction; Sofidel will invest $120 million to buy and expand the Hattiesburg operation. In addition, the company has opened a U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia.
It was reported this week that two local fire departments and Georgia-Pacific's Fire Brigade responded to a fire at the plywood mill at Georgia-Pacific on Friday, 30 Oct. 2015.
The Sussex-based commercial printing company, which has followed a consolidation strategy since its 2010 acquisition of World Color Press Inc. that has closed 29 total printing plants, will close its plants in Augusta, Ga., and East Greenville, Pa., by the end of the year.
In the wake of disappointing financial results, Quad/Graphics Inc. said it will begin closing plants and taking other steps to cut $100 million in costs.
Nashua's namesake company, Nashua Corp., owned by graphics giant Cenveo, will shutter its Merrimack location by 30 April of next year, resulting in 53 layoffs and marking the end of a manufacturing legacy in New Hampshire that goes back more than a century.
The plant, which employs 87 people, according to the company, has been idle since early October
Corrugated Supplies Co., which is based in Bedford, Ill., plans to build a $200 million linerboard mill in 2017.
SCA announced that it is strengthening the cooperation with Vinda International Holdings Limited by integrating its business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea into Vinda.
Advocacy group concerned about what's in adhesives, fragrance and absorbent ingredients,
A worker at the Clearwater Paper Company in Ladysmith, Wisconsin died Tuesday morning from injuries apparently suffered in an accident at the facility.
At the Androscoggin Mill in Jay, 300 workers were notified last week of layoffs and the No. 2 paper machine was shut down.
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