The PM40 closed Friday, 12 July 2019, at 3217.

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Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

The PM40 closed 12 July 2019 down 22.2% from the 13 July 2018 level.

In this issue of Disconnected Comparisons, we evaluate Schweitzer-Mauduit and Domtar.

This innovation may affect paper and paperboard in the future.

U.S. log exports to Vietnam jumped 39.8% to 110.1 thousand m3 with export value expanded 46.9% to $40.2 million.

Pekka Rouhiainen has been appointed Director, Investor Relations, at Valmet as of 1 September 2019. He will be based in Espoo, Finland, and will report to Kari Saarinen, CFO at Valmet.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö has received the OK compost HOME and OK compost INDUSTRIAL certifications from TÜV® Austria for its entire range of Coralpack™ grease resistant wrapping papers.

In court on Monday, July 1, Price County Judge Kevin Klein approved an agreement between Flambeau River Papers and CellMark Paper Inc., as well as a request for the mill to pursue financing in the amount of $2 million.

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Incidents in 2019: We are updating this list as these happen in the pulp, paper and forest products industry

We are updating this list as these happen in the pulp, paper and forest products industry

Pulp and Paper Manufacturers report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission

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Multi-Color Corporation announced that the anticipated acquisition of the Company by an affiliate of Platinum Equity, a leading private equity firm, is now complete.

The DuPont Co. massively downplayed the cost of environmental liabilities with which Chemours would be saddled when DuPont spun off its former performance chemicals unit in 2015, according to a lawsuit unsealed Friday.

Crossroads Paper has plans to construct a recycled-paper mill in Utah, expected to open in early 2022, the company announced in Salt Lake City.

A worker at Interfor Corp.'s Gilchrist sawmill, in northern Klamath County, died following injuries sustained after a fall while he was on the job, according to Andrew Horahan, vice president of western operations at Interfor.

As part of the merger, West-Rock "centralized" its supply chain functions to its corporate office in Atlanta, WestRock spokesman John Pensec said. The Longview mill had its own on-site supply chain function, Pensec said.

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