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President and CEO Henrik Hjalmarsson has decided to leave Inwido to take on the position of President and CEO in another business.

Sustana, a manufacturer of premium, sustainable recycled fiber and paper products, announces the appointment of Aaron Ling to Director of Sustainability. In this role Aaron will be responsible for driving the implementation of Sustana's ESG initiatives and supporting the development of the group's sustainability strategy.

Antti Koulumies, M.Sc. (Eng.), has been appointed Senior Vice President, Timber and Forest. Koulumies will take the leadership of UPM Forest and continue to lead UPM Timber. The current leader of UPM Forest Sauli Brander, B.Sc. (Eng.), eMBA, has been appointed Vice President, UPM Global Forest Affairs. He will focus on global forest advocacy as well as global forestry themes, such as climate-positive forestry and biodiversity.

These actions would reduce the number of employees by approximately 1,150. The parts of the change negotiations completed so far, will result in a reduction of 710 employees.

The Board of Directors of Norske Skog ASA has appointed Geir Drangsland as the new CEO as of 1 September. Drangsland succeeds Tore Hansesætre, who has decided to leave Norske Skog after more than 14 years in the company.

Metsä Wood and construction company SRV have signed an agreement for the construction of Metsä Wood's new Kerto LVL mill in Äänekoski, Finland. SRV will be the main contractor for the project, which will be carried out as a cooperative project management contract. Preparations for construction will begin immediately.

SCA and Persson Invest began their collaboration around Gällö Timber and the sawmill in Gällö, Jämtland in 2010. Since 2010, significant investments have been made in the sawmill to develop its operations and strengthen its competitiveness. Today, the sawmill has 115 employees and a capacity of 370,000 cubic meters of sawn timber.

ColePak is the second largest supplier of paper partitions in North America and has a compelling future growth path in that unique product niche.

The Board of Directors of Nordic Paper has decided to invest approximately SEK 850 m at the Bäckhammar mill.

Visy Industries unveiled a major AU$42.5 million upgrade to its paper recycling and remanufacturing campus in Coolaroo, Australia.

Following the rockslide and subsequent production stop at Saugbrugs PM6 (paper machine 6) in April this year, Norske Skog has decided to restart production at the previously idled PM5. The restart of PM5 allows Norske Skog to continue supplying SC magazine paper to its customers and keep its market position.

BROSCO is a fifth-generation, family-owned company founded in 1890.

This comes after members of Teamster Local 346 narrowly approved a 3-year labor contract with respect to the mill's 166 hourly employees on August 11. It ended a short notice strike that began July 15 over wages.

Due to current market conditions, the start of the project has been postponed to 2024.

Billerud is introducing a new organization whereby the company harmonizes and operates its business in two distinct geographical regions - Europe and North America. Billerud further appoints Andrei Krés as acting CFO, effective immediately.

In the 18 months since the indefinite curtailment, the majority of employees took voluntary severance, and a small number chose to transfer to another Paper Excellence Canada mill. When fully operating, Catalyst Paper tiskwat employed approximately 200 people.

Chief Taylor said that Davonne Woods was working for H&M Contracting at the PCA plant on Industrial Rd. when he was killed. According to Taylor, a witness reported seeing the large truck Woods was driving roll over into a pond on the property.

An internal company memorandum provided Tuesday morning confirms the plant closure but gives no date.

Agreement will expand ArborGen's presence and availability of genetically improved Eucalyptus seedlings in the state.

Western Pulp will cease production operations at its Jacksonville facility at the end of the month, while continuing its shipping operations to help customers manage the transition to new suppliers, according to the company's announcement Tuesday, Aug. 15.

Crews from the Longview Fire Department responded to a fire Monday evening at Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility.

Ostrest GmbH to assume ownership effective August 15, 2023 with site to remain fully operational.

Daio Paper Corp. announces plans to spend approximately 19 billion yen to reconstruct the boiler at its subsidiary, Iwaki Daio Paper Corp., based in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

Ahlstrom has entered into an agreement to divest its Stenay plant in France to Accursia Capital, following the announcement of Accursia Capital's binding offer in July. The divestment was confirmed after receiving endorsement from the site's employee representatives. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of September.

It is being reported that Smurfit, of Dublin, Ireland, and WestRock, of Atlanta, Georgia, are in merger talks. These are interesting times indeed. I recall in 1986 when Smurfit bought Container Corporation of America (CCA) with the help of Morgan Stanley. In fact, the combined company name included Morgan Stanley. Long term, that merger did not end well.