Leading Stories

UPM has officially opened a new combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Germany, bringing the company closer to meeting its ambitious target to decrease its CO2 emissions by 65% by 2030.

Ahlstrom will start a strategic transformation program "Stella" to redesign and renew its business platform. This will greatly benefit Ahlstrom's way of doing business by utilizing data and the opportunities for further digitalization.

Resolute currently expects to complete the merger in the first half of 2023.

Greif's Paper Packaging and Services (PPS) business has announced two significant investments in its recycling operations to support its growth strategy in sustainable paper packaging solutions.

Paper Excellence and the Province of Nova Scotia have been engaged in court-ordered mediation on multiple disputes arising from the mill closure.

The decision to shut down the groundwood pulp line for printing paper at Rottneros Mill, led to a notice to reduce the number of employees by 40 people. The negotiations are finalized and 35 people will be made redundant. Of these, 17 employees have agreed to a pension solution and 18 have been dismissed.

SCA and Holmen have today agreed to conduct a feasibility study regarding a potential new jointly owned sawmill in Rundvik, Nordmaling municipality in Västerbotten. A new sawmill in Norrland with high production capacity would increase the value of forest assets in the long term.

Normal operations to resume with approval of new contract with IAM

The Paper Excellence Group and Resolute Forest Products Inc. announced their intention to sell Resolute's Thunder Bay pulp and paper mill to further facilitate the regulatory review process.

The $50 million investment for the new drum pulper added 100 new jobs and will help expand North Pacific Paper Company's ability to make packaging paper from recycled wastepaper, said NORPAC CEO Craig Anneberg. The paper mill now employs 500 people total.

The paper mill operated for more than 250 years.

Graphic Packaging International would pay a $99,270 fine and be required to make process changes at its paper factory over alleged air quality violations, under an order proposed by state of Michigan environmental regulators and announced this week.

With UN Biodiversity Conference COP 15 approaching, Stora Enso has signed Business for Nature's business statement asking governments to Make it Mandatory for business and finance to assess and disclose their impacts and dependencies on nature.

Suzano S.A. hereby informs its shareholders and the market in general the execution, on October 24th, 2022, of an Equity Purchase Agreement entered into by and between the Company, as Buyer, Kimberly-Clark Brasil Indústria e Comércio de Produtos de Higiene Ltda.

UPM's new pulp mill in Uruguay will begin commercial production in the first quarter of 2023, the company said on Tuesday, as it reported record third quarter earnings.

Weyerhaeuser's workers have remained on the picketing lines since Sept. 13, the first strike in 36 years. Union members demanded family-wage increases as well as better health benefits.

The Eldorado deal has been on hold for five years. It was signed in September 2017 but never concluded due to the parties' disagreement over the closing.

Armed and hooded individuals have set fire to the Oldenburg Camp, on Arauco's forestry land in the commune of La Unión, in the Araucanía region of southern Chile. The assailants, between eight and ten, arrived at the site, intimidated workers who were having dinner at the time and burned company infrastructure and vehicles, according to Chilean radio station Radio Bío Bío.

Paper Excellence shutting down mill after impasse with union

Brazilian pulp and paper producer Klabin SA said Friday it has agreed to sell tracts of forest property for 230 million reais, the equivalent of $44 million.

Stora Enso has decided to invest approximately EUR 1 billion to convert the remaining idle paper machine at the Group's Oulu site in Finland into a high-volume consumer board production line.

Interfor announced plans to reduce its lumber production output in the fourth quarter of 2022 by approximately 200 million board feet, or 17% of quarterly capacity, as current economic conditions and market uncertainty have led to reduced lumber demand.

New 210,000 tonne per year kraft paper machine will meet the growing demand for paper-based flexible packaging

Rengo Co., Ltd. announces that its consolidated subsidiaries, Kato Danboru Co., Ltd.'s Noda Plant and Sanwa Danboru Co., Ltd., have decided to cease operation of their outdated corrugators and remove them at the end of September 2022.

Boise Cascade's Building Materials Distribution (BMD) division announced the acquisition of 4.67 acres of land adjacent to its Albuquerque, New Mexico branch.