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Packaging Corporation of America has notified its Wallula mill employees the mill will be idled and won't resume operations until later this year.
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.
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.
Boise Cascade's Building Materials Distribution (BMD) division announced it has finalized the purchase of a five-acre site in Birmingham, AL.
Unifor is concerned about the mill's wood supply, being 'carved away' when it it is sold to another operator.
Conifex Timber Inc. announced that Andrew McLellan has been promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer.
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.
Hood Industries, Inc. announced its plans to build a new, laminated plywood panel manufacturing facility in Beaumont, Mississippi.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WestRock Company announced it will permanently cease operating its paper mill in North Charleston, South Carolina, on August 31, 2023.
A conveyor belt and chip pile caught on fire.
The number of blastomycosis cases associated with the Billerud paper mill in Escanaba has risen by five.
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.
Cascades will work closely with its 300 affected employees to mitigate the impact of this announcement.
UPM Plywood is planning to restructure its organization and scale its operations to meet the reduced production capacity and the deteriorating market situation. The company will begin employee negotiations involving 262 salaried employees in the staff and global functions, in the sales offices and in the Finnish mills.
Structurlam Mass Timber Corporation, the leading mass timber manufacturer in North America, announced it has entered into a stalking horse asset purchase agreement (the "APA") with Mercer International Inc. to sell substantially all the Company's assets in British Columbia and Arkansas for US$60 million.
The strategic review includes exploring different options and may result in divestments, although no such decisions have yet been taken.
The investment is planned to be operational in 2024.
Following a guilty plea in the Ontario Court of Justice, Resolute Forest Products Inc. was fined $120,000.
Packaging and speciality paper manufacturer Sappi Europe has invested a double-digit million euro sum in a new plant to produce innovative high-barrier papers - including an all-new type of barrier coating machine. Recently put into operation at the company's Alfeld site in Germany, the in-house solution will produce high-barrier papers for recyclable packaging for food and non-food applications.
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