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Interfor announced that it has completed the previously announced transaction to acquire 100% of the equity interests of EACOM Timber Corporation from an affiliate of Kelso & Company, effective February 22, 2022.
With this investment, the company plans to increase production capacity to support further growth in the existing dye sublimation business, in combination with an improved first-class service and lead times.
In just four months, Tetra Pak has co-invested over Euro 11.5 million with recyclers and industry players, to help set up four completely new recycling solutions for carton packages in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and Australia.
Stora Enso is starting a feasibility study for the possible conversion of an idle paper machine at its Oulu site in Finland for a high-volume consumer board line. On a successful completion of the feasibility study, an investment decision could be made by the end of 2022 with start-up in 2025.
A total of 30 firefighters were called to the fire.
It took nearly 4 hours to bring the fire under control.
Cascades announced an expansion plan in the isothermal distribution market with the commissioning of a new production site in the western United States, in Tacoma (WA), and with the launch of new products under its northbox® brand of insulated boxes for fresh foods.
The investment will lead to cost savings but also increase the mill's production capacity. The investment will also improve the local environment by reducing the risk of odor disturbances.
Having paused reopening efforts last fall in part because of concerns about street crime in Seattle's downtown core, Weyerhaeuser will be returning to its Pioneer Square headquarters in April.
Graphic Packaging employs approximately 200 employees at its Battle Creek facilities.
The Domtar paper mill in Kingsport shut down production of writing paper in April 2020, as the novel coronavirus pandemic cut budgets by $200 million and over 300 people were laid off. The mill was idled and was originally supposed to reopen after three months. Then came the announcement that the paper mill would cease to produce uncoated freesheet, but would make recycled linerboard and medium instead.
Fire crews responded to a machinery fire inside the Dunn Paper mill in Port Huron Thursday afternoon, Feb. 17.
The majority of operations at Columbia Pulp LLC will shut down for an undetermined length of time starting Friday, Feb. 18, while the young company works on developing a market for its unique product. Approximately 80 employees will be out of work, with a small staff continuing to handle daily business operations, though the company's interim CEO states this does not mean the pulp mill is going out of business.
Canfor Pulp Products Inc. is announcing a minimum six-week curtailment of BCTMP production at Taylor Pulp in response to significant transportation shortages that have resulted in inventories at the pulp mill reaching capacity.
NORPAC has 30 days to pay or appeal the penalty.
Weyerhaeuser has 30 days to pay or appeal the penalty.
Boralex Inc. announces an agreement for the sale of the 34.5 MW Senneterre power plant in Quebec, Canada. The power plant has been purchased by Resolute Forest Products Canada Inc.
Clearwater Paper is examining opportunities in a potential consolidation of the private label tissue industry after losing $28 million in 2021.
Canfor Corporation has announced the permanent reduction of 150 million board feet of production capacity at its Plateau Sawmill to resize the facility and align it with the available, sustainable timber supply in the region following the devastating impacts of the Mountain Pine Beetle infestation and other constraints on the timber harvesting land base. The reduction in production capacity will be achieved through a partial plant closure and the elimination of one of the three production lines in the mill.
Carlyle will retain minority stake in the packaging company.
Menasha Packaging Company, LLC, a subsidiary of Menasha Corporation, announces it has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of Color-Box, a business unit of Georgia-Pacific, LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close in early summer 2022.
Georgia-Pacific has completed a $7 million upgrade at Diboll Lumber Mill in Texas that will modernize the mill and help increase its overall production. The capital project focused on the mill's boiler reliability and maintenance and the rebuild of two drying kilns.
Paper Excellence announced an indefinite production slowdown of its Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan BCTMP mill in Canada due to repeated lack of railway service.
Resolute Forest Products Inc. announced two separate transactions to grow and improve the competitiveness of its wood products business.
Stora Enso invests EUR 9 million in an automated CLT (cross-laminated timber) coating line at the Ybbs sawmill in Austria. The investment will further strengthen Stora Enso's position as a leading global provider of engineered wood products for low carbon, sustainable buildings.
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