Capital projects of note in 2022


Dec 2022: Star Paper Mill to set up $54 million recycled paper mill in Abu Dhabi

Dec 2022: Boise Cascade to build two distribution centers in South Carolina and Texas

Dec 2022: Sylvamo holds grand opening for new Memphis headquarters

Dec 2022: Sappi Europe announces major paper machine upgrade and modernisation at its Gratkorn mill

Dec 2022: Billerud Michigan paper mill could get $1 billion upgrade

Dec 2022: Felix Schoeller Group to invest more than $100 million to expand capacity in North America by 2025

Dec 2022: Stora Enso invests Euro 80 million in pulp mills in Finland and Sweden

Dec 2022: Georgia-Pacific Dixie Jackson, Tenn. Facility Holds Groundbreaking

Dec 2022: Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper awarded as largest foreign investment in the Riau province

Dec 2022: Enviva Celebrates Its Recently Opened Terminal at the Port of Pascagoula with Ribbon Cutting

Nov 2022: Georgia Pacific to invest $160 million in Brewton, Alabama mill

Nov 2022: Suzano breaks ground on its Innovability Hub development in China

Nov 2022: Smurfit Kappa completes investments in plants in Czech Republic and Slovakia

Nov 2022: Huhtamaki expands paper-based packaging capacity at its facility in Nules, Spain

Nov 2022: Rengo begins construction of Ehime Toon plant in Japan

Nov 2022: Sonoco opens new facility in Turkey to boost production

Nov 2022: Norske Skog: Golbey renewable energy plant is under construction

Nov 2022: Pratt Industries Commits to Investing $5 Billion in Recycling, Clean Energy Infrastructure and Manufacturing Jobs in the USA over the Next 10 Years

Nov 2022: Rengo completes construction on biomass incineration plant at Amagasaki mill in Japan

Nov 2022: Lecta is investing in a refuse-derived fuel (RDF) boiler for its Condat mill

Nov 2022: Procter & Gamble picks site to build $500 million manufacturing facility

Nov 2022: Menasha Packaging Expands Pelahatchie, Mississippi, Manufacturing Complex

Nov 2022: Sappi to invest $418 million to convert PM2 at Somerset mill in Maine

Nov 2022: Stora Enso Imatra Mills' wood handling upgrade reaches completion

Nov 2022: LP Building Solutions Announces $400 Million Expansion at New Limerick, Maine Facility

Nov 2022: UPM inaugurates state-of-the-art combined heat and power (CHP) plant at Europe's largest paper mill

Nov 2022: Greif's Paper Packaging and Services Division announce investment in recycling facilities

Oct 2022: SCA and Holmen to conduct feasibility study for new sawmill

Oct 2022: NORPAC starts new $50M recycling equipment in Longview

Oct 2022: UPM confirms Uruguay pulp mill Q1 startup

Oct 2022: Stora Enso investing EUR 1 billion in conversion to accelerate growth in renewable packaging

Oct 2022: Mondi approves €400 million investment in new kraft paper machine at Štětí mill in Czech Republic

Oct 2022: Boise Cascade Expands Albuquerque Distribution Center

Oct 2022: ST Paper anticipates operations to begin early 2023

Oct 2022: Bast Fibre Technologies Inc. secures strategic investment from Ahlström Capital 

Oct 2022: Smurfit Kappa invests $100 million to drive down emissions in Colombia

Oct 2022: Metsä Group inaugurates pine sawmill in Rauma, Finland

Oct 2022: Stora Enso inaugurates new CLT production site in Ždírec, Czech Republic

Oct 2022: Sonoco Launches New URB Machine as Part of Project Horizon

Oct 2022: Willamette Falls Paper Company Expands Manufacturing Capacity

Oct 2022: Arauco to build $235 million MDF line at Zitacuaro mill in Mexico

Oct 2022: Enviva Celebrates Its Recently Opened Wood Biomass Facility in George County, Mississippi

Oct 2022: Pixelle to Restart Paper Machine in Chillicothe, Ohio

Oct 2022: Kansas Governor Laura Kelly Joins Pratt Industries For Grand Opening of Park City Plant

Oct 2022: Metsä Group's state-of-the-art sawmill starts in Rauma, Finland

Sep 2022: Metsä Tissue's renewed tissue paper machine in Mänttä goes into continuous production

Sep 2022: Roseburg upgrades Pembroke MDF Moulding in Oregon

Sep 2022: Georgia-Pacific to invest $425 million in new Dixie facility in Tennessee

Sep 2022: Tolko to rebuild High Prairie mill

Sep 2022: Sappi invests in label paper production at Gratkorn mill in Austria

Sep 2022: Mondi invests in new research and development centre at Mondi Steinfeld

Sep 2022: Metsä Board starts pre-engineering for new folding boxboard mill in Kaskinen, Finland

Sep 2022: Resolute Forest Products breaks ground on planer mill in Quebec, Canada

Sep 2022: Ponderay Industries plans to restart idle Usk paper mill in Washington

Sep 2022: Ahlstrom-Munksjö Continues Investment in the Beverage Industry

Sep 2022: $97 million investment at WestRock paper mill in Louisiana

Aug 2022: Amcor expands Innovation Center Network with opening of world-class facility in Asia Pacific

Aug 2022: Georgia-Pacific invests more than $20 million in Tennessee facility

Aug 2022: LP Building Solutions Expanding in Dickinson County, Michigan

Aug 2022: Groundwood line in Rottneros Mill to be closed, CTMP production planned to increase significantly

Aug 2022: Georgia-Pacific invests $40 million to expand operations at OSB mill in South Carolina

Aug 2022: Ilim Group launches wastewater treatment system at new kraftliner mill in Ust-Ilimsk, Russia

Aug 2022: BillerudKorsnas and Viken Skog to establish pulp mill in Norway

Aug 2022: Greif expanding operations at Greenville Co., S.C. paper mill

Aug 2022: Irving Pulp & Paper receives permission to begin construction of environmental treatment facility in New Brunswick

Aug 2022: Ahlstrom-Munksjö to invest Euro 15 million in boilers at two Wisconsin facilities

Aug 2022: Paper tissue and towel company hopes to expand its Eagle Bridge, N.Y. facility

Jul 2022: Canfor to Invest in New Facility in Alabama

Jul 2022: CGC announces $210 million investment to build state-of-the-art wallboard manufacturing plant in Alberta

Jul 2022: GP Cellulose investing about $80 million to add fluff capacity at its GP Cellulose Alabama River mill near Monroeville, Alabama

Jul 2022: Rengo installs new biomass boiler for power generation at Tonegawa Division in Japan

Jul 2022: Heinzel Group becomes strategic investor in project to build Paraguay's first pulp mill

Jul 2022: Rengo commences full-scale operation of new cellulose microbead plant

Jul 2022: Georgia-Pacific investing more than $30 million in Bradford facility in Pennsylvania

Jul 2022: Brazil's Klabin to invest up to $287 million in corrugated box plant

Jul 2022: Georgia Pacific breaks ground on $500 million addition to Green Bay Broadway mill

Jul 2022: Mondi expands capacity in sustainable pet food packaging solutions

Jul 2022: Cellmark, Total Fiber Recovery to build $80 million recycled pulp facility in Chesapeake, Virginia

Jul 2022: LP Building Solutions Celebrates Groundbreaking at Bath, New York Complex

Jul 2022: Capital investment for STP-Tolko Southeastern Timber Products

Jul 2022: Western Forest Products invests $29 million in its sawmills in British Columbia

Jul 2022: Smurfit Kappa invests Euro 11.5 million in Zülpich paper mill in Germany

Jun 2022: Empire Recycled Fiber announces it will relocate containerboard project to Dayton, Ohio

Jun 2022: Progroup breaks ground on Euro 90 million corrugated sheetfeeder plant in Germany

Jun 2022: Sonae Arauco inaugurates state-of-the-art particleboard production line at Beeskow plant in Germany

Jun 2022: Canfor invests $25 million to modernize its Estill facility in South Carolina

Jun 2022: Chile's Arauco to invest $3 billion to build pulp mill in Brazil

Jun 2022: Kruger Products inaugurates its Sherbrooke plant and kicks off construction of expansion project

Jun 2022: Roseburg exploring potential new MDF plant or bioenergy facility in the West

Jun 2022: Cascades launches an innovative isothermal packaging technology and inaugurates a new production site

Jun 2022: Norske Skog JV Ready to Start Construction of Biomass Boiler at French Mill

Jun 2022: Family-owned Business American Packaging Corporation to Bring New Manufacturing Facility and Jobs to Cedar City, Utah

Jun 2022: Huhtamaki breaks ground on $100 million expansion project in Indiana

Jun 2022: Smurfit Kappa spends $23 million on upgrade to Mexico plant

Jun 2022: Paper Excellence Port Alberni mill switches from print paper to food packaging

Jun 2022: Stora Enso starts feasibility study for conversion at Langerbrugge facility in Belgium

Jun 2022: PotlatchDeltic to invest $131 million in Waldo, Arkansas sawmill

Jun 2022: Marcal Paper mill destroyed by massive fire will be site of new warehouse

May 2022: Roseburg breaks ground on new sawmill in Weldon, North Carolina

May 2022: Smurfit Kappa to build €35 million plant in Morocco

May 2022: MM Kotkamills invests Euro 30 million in two new cutters

May 2022: Appvion announces purchase of new equipment

May 2022: Pregis Begins Production in New Reno, Nevada Manufacturing Facility

May 2022: Huhtamaki says it will invest $100 million to expand its facility in Hammond, Indiana

May 2022: Cornerstone Laid At Kuopio Mill, Progressing Mondi's €125 Million Investment Programme in Finland

May 2022: Metsä Board explores possibilities to increase folding boxboard capacity in Finland or Sweden

Apr 2022: Stora Enso continues to invest in renewable energy at production sites

Apr 2022: Georgia-Pacific will spend $50 million to upgrade its Muskogee facility

Apr 2022: Pregis invests in new European protective packaging innovation center

Apr 2022: Amcor to expand healthcare packaging capabilities in Europe

Apr 2022: Canfor invests $130 million to modernize Urbana facility in Arkansas

Apr 2022: Saica starts production in Hamilton, Ohio

Apr 2022: Pratt plans new facility in Texas

Apr 2022: Georgia-Pacific Opens Two New Facilities to Manufacture Recyclable Padded Mailers for E-Commerce

Apr 2022: Weyerhaeuser breaks ground on new regional headquarters

Apr 2022: Enviva Announces $250 million Investment

Mar 2022: APRIL Group invests $2.3 billion in paperboard facility in Indonesia's Sumatra

Mar 2022: Huhtamaki steps up production of advanced smooth molded fiber packaging in Alf, Germany

Mar 2022: Mondi invests Euro 280 million in corrugated packaging operations in Europe

Mar 2022: JD Irving mill acts on long-awaited water treatment facility

Mar 2022: ND Paper boosting containerboard capacity

Mar 2022: Stora Enso invests Euro 40 million in Skutskär Mill in Sweden

Mar 2022: WestRock Breaks Ground on Claremont Facility Expansion

Mar 2022: Kimberly-Clark opens $100m diaper facility in Nigeria

Mar 2022: International Paper to Increase Investments in Morocco, Supporting Customer Demand for Sustainable Corrugated Packaging

Mar 2022: Södra is building a new cold store for 40 million forest plants

Mar 2022: BillerudKorsnäs and Viken Skog to explore possibilities for joint production of pulp

Feb 2022: Neenah Invests in Meltblown Capacity to Meet Increased Demand

Feb 2022: Tetra Pak invests in new recycling facilities in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and Australia

Feb 2022: Sappi expands mill facility in Italy for sublimation papers

Feb 2022: Stora Enso accelerates its growth agenda by exploring expansion in production of renewable consumer packaging board

Feb 2022: Cascades launches expansion plan in the isothermal packaging market

Feb 2022: SCA invests $9.7 million in pulp mill in Östrand, Sweden

Feb 2022: Domtar on track to open repurposed paper mill at the end of 2022

Feb 2022: Georgia-Pacific completes $7 million upgrade at Diboll Lumber mill in Texas

Feb 2022: Rottneros and Arctic Paper will invest in a fiber tray facility

Feb 2022: Stora Enso invests in automated CLT coating line for shortened construction times

Feb 2022: City of Henderson, Kentucky approves $320 million in bonds for Pratt facility

Feb 2022: Combined Locks, Wisconsin paper mill sold to McKinley Paper

Feb 2022: Klabin approves $34 million investment in plant expansion

Feb 2022: Ahlstrom-Munksjö begins expansion in Kentucky

Feb 2022: Stora Enso Oyj accelerates growth in formed fiber by expanding its production capacity in Europe

Feb 2022: WestRock Announces Plans to Construct New Corrugated Box Facility in the Pacific Northwest

Jan 2022: Stora Enso invests EUR 40 million to enhance operational and carbon footprint performance for fluff pulp production

Jan 2022: Smurfit Kappa announces USD33 million investment in Fortaleza, Brazil

Jan 2022: Rayonier Advanced Materials Announces Investment in Second Generation Bioethanol Plant, an Important Step in its BioFuture

Jan 2022: Up to 85 Jobs Possible as Georgia-Pacific Acquires Centralia, Washington Property

Jan 2022: Norske Skog, Nortømmer and Viken Skog to open new timber terminal in Norway

Jan 2022: Joint Venture to Invest $267 Million in Paperboard Recycling and Production in Chesapeake, Virginia, Creating 210 New Jobs

Jan 2022: Green Bay Packaging announces new facility in Texas

Jan 2022: Boise Cascade Expands Distribution Footprint