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Metsä Board Corporation's long-term CEO Mika Joukio has decided to step down from his CEO position as of 7 April 2025 in accordance with the agreement he has made with the Board of Directors of the company. The Board of Directors of Metsä Board Corporation has appointed Metsä Group's EVP, Strategy, Esa Kaikkonen (LLM, trained on the bench), as the new CEO of the company as of 7 April 2025.

Proceeds Being Used to Reduce Approximately $1.5 Billion in Debt

The acquisition will add 480,000 metric tonnes per year of capacity to ITC's paperboards and specialty papers business, the company said.

Ladies and gentlemen, the first class of inductees to the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame in Appleton, Wisconsin was inducted more than two decades ago in 1995, and today, more than 150 papermaking innovators and legends have been enshrined. This month, we profile the late Tad Bretting, who was president and CEO of C.G. Bretting Manufacturing Company in Ashland, Wisconsin, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999.

The PM40 closed Friday, 11 April 2025, at 5055.

Get the latest PM40 updates by listening to the weekly Nips show and the PM40 Daily Show on Pulp & Paper Radio International.

The PM40 closed 11 April 2025 down 8.2% from the 12 April 2024 level.

In this issue of Disconnected Comparisons, we evaluate 3M and Louisiana Pacific.

Unifor is calling for a large-scale Team Canada approach to support the forestry sector across Canada after the U.S. Department of Commerce's recent announcement that will more than double the combined duties on Canadian softwood lumber.

Microsoft announced on Friday that it is buying 3.7 million metric tons of carbon removal credits from CO280, a project developer that works with pulp and paper mills.

Worker was struck by pole, fatally injured in 2023.

Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM) has launched a new legal challenge to Fernandina Beach's denial for its plan to build a bioethanol production plant, this time in U.S. District Court in Jacksonville.

The money is going to workers who lost jobs when Pactiv Evergreen's Canton paper mill closed and workers were laid off at the company's Waynesville facility.

It comes after FSC extended the suspension from until March in January.

Ruling Maintains Aymium's Patent and Leading Position in Renewable Batteries and Anodes

The Norwegian Environment Agency has issued a decision to exclude Norske Skog Skogn and Norske Skog Saugbrugs from the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for the period 2026 to 2030.

Valmet is planning to cut about 1,150 staff globally including 395 in Finland, the company said in a press release on Monday.

The contracts include the replacement of an economizer in the recovery boiler and the implementation of the SYNERGY Services concept for the white liquor plant and pulp drying processes.

Bruks Siwertell has received an order for a second Bruks truck tipper platform for Domtar's Windsor paper mill in Quebec, Canada.

The company sources the technology from Valmet Oyj.

The agreement is for three years, with the option of being extended by a further two years.

AFT has received an order for a comprehensive stock preparation and approach flow system rebuild from a major customer in Asia-Pacific. The project involves converting production to thermal paper grades.

Solenis acquired Diversey Holdings, Ltd. in 2023 and now operates as one integrated company with aligned sustainability policies.

Designed for chemical brown pulp producers, the optimizer is a unique combination of automated controls for cooking and refining that helps mills achieve high pulping output while cutting costs and stabilizing quality.

Valmet is to supply two OptiWin Drum two-drum base winders to Wuzhou Special Paper's paper machine PM 21 in China.

The Trump Administration's executive orders cut across dozens of industries. This searchable tool breaks down the orders and their impact.