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A news release says the project, located at the company's existing 50-year-old Hawesville mill, will upgrade the current pulper with a modern pulper to gain additional machine capabilities and better service growing markets. Officials say leaders at Domtar plan to have the expansion fully operational by the end of 2025.
Transaction Represents 64th Acquisition for Leading Distributor of Foodservice Packaging and Janitorial Sanitation Products.
The negotiations involve a total of 1,100 employees at the Joutseno, Kaskinen, Kemi, Kyro, Tampere, Simpele and Äänekoski mills.
Approximately 50 employees will be impacted and the potential for approximately 10 million board feet of lumber will be removed from production.
At 12:47 p.m. Sunday, May 14, a caller reported an employee stuck in a paper machine at the Mativ Inc. Paper Mill.
There have been 115 cases of blastomycosis so far, the department said last week, resulting in 14 people -- workers, contractors or mill visitors -- being admitted to the hospital. One person has died.
Investment has created one of the most high-tech packaging plants in Europe
Destocking in the various product value chains has continued to hold back delivery volumes in most UPM's businesses, resulting in slower recovery of volumes than earlier expected. In addition, chemical pulp prices have fallen faster than expected, towards estimated bottom-of-the-cycle price levels. Finally, as indicated earlier, UPM has high maintenance activity during Q2 2023.
Dura-Fibre acquired Greif Chicago Converting and will move its manufacturing operations to Menasha, the company announced last week.
Suzano SA, the biggest producer of hardwood pulp, is considering selling its products to China priced in yuan, adding to signs that the dollar is losing its dominance in commodity markets.
Conifex Timber Inc. announced that Andrew McLellan has been promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer.
Unifor is concerned about the mill's wood supply, being 'carved away' when it it is sold to another operator.
Boise Cascade's Building Materials Distribution (BMD) division announced it has finalized the purchase of a five-acre site in Birmingham, AL.
Arctic Paper S.A. announces that the group's CFO Göran Eklund will retire at the end of June 2023 and will be replaced, with effect as of May 29, by Katarzyna Wojtkowiak, who is currently Chief Accountant.
Mondi, a global leader in sustainable packaging and paper, is upgrading its Dynäs pulp and paper mill in Sweden. The modernisation programme will increase efficiency and further improve the overall environmental performance of the mill, positioning it well to continue meeting customer demand for sustainable paper and paper-based packaging solutions.
Packaging Corporation of America has notified its Wallula mill employees the mill will be idled and won't resume operations until later this year.
The company also partnered with Kruger Inc. last year to build an enclosed electric conveyor system to move wood chips from the facility to Kruger's chip yard, located directly across the street.
Dozens of firefighters responded to a hazmat incident Wednesday afternoon at Inland Empire Paper Co. in Millwood as reports came in that the incident had turned into a fire.
Hood Industries, Inc. announced its plans to build a new, laminated plywood panel manufacturing facility in Beaumont, Mississippi.
In a first-quarter earnings report released Tuesday, Graphic Packaging International said it will close its recycled paperboard mill in Tama in the second quarter of 2023. A filing with Iowa Workforce Development shows the company will lay off 85 workers, effective June 2.
Ingevity Corporation announced that operations at the company's North Charleston, South Carolina, plant will continue as normal with the announced closure of WestRock Company's North Charleston, South Carolina, paper mill.
According to the Memphis Fire Department (MFD), a second-alarm fire was reported at Kruger, or KTG Memphis on Mahannah Avenue. The facility produces toilet and other bathroom necessities.
The plaintiffs were granted a temporary restraining order against Great Lakes Tissue, which stopped them from moving, using, hiding or damaging more than 60 pieces of leased equipment that were critical in the facility's work.
Cascades is also announcing the permanent shutdown of paper machine number 2 at its Niagara Falls, New York mill, which had been temporarily shut down since November 2022.
International Paper's Cedar River Mill, the largest 100-percent recycled paper mill in the Americas -- broke ground Monday on its expansion project to generate an alternate steam supply and transition off coal-powered steam.
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