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Phoenix Inkjet products provide Customers with Treated and Untreated Sheet Solutions.

Huhtamaki North America announces its sponsorship of a sports stadium. In a recently announced five-year deal, Huhtamaki will be the official "sustainable packaging provider" at Children's Mercy Park stadium, home of the US Major League Soccer (MLS) team, Sporting Kansas City. Together, both companies will further reduce stadium's environmental footprint.

Company Continues to Live its Purpose of 'Better Care for a Better World'.

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Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

J.D. Irving Ltd. and Twin Rivers Paper Company have 2021 and 2022 assessments cut on two mills.

Weitzel to succeed Andrew Wamser as company continues to pursue its strategic growth objectives.

Södra's new cross-laminated timber (CLT) facility was inaugurated on the west coast of Sweden.

The owner, Pixelle Specialty Solutions, announced last year that it planned to close the mill, which employs 230 people. It cited business and financial challenges compounded by the explosion of a pulp digester in 2020. Last month, the company announced the mill would close weeks earlier than initially anticipated.

The plant has an annual capacity of approximately 55,000 tons of specialty paper and has 127 employees.

Wisconsin-based packaging firm Quad/Graphics Inc. will close its Leominster, Massachusetts Packaging plant by April 29, resulting in approximately 60 layoffs.

In February, workers here voted down a contract offer paving the way for a possible strike. On Monday, March 13, a union representative said a revised contract was presented and the union workers overwhelmingly said yes to the company's terms.

It is well known that Jackson Wijaya, the ultimate and sole owner of Paper Excellence, is the son of the current head of APP. In the early days, Jackson benefited from some experience gained from the family business early in his life, as well as support getting his company started. This is hardly a unique or exceptional circumstance. The situation is entirely different today. Jackson operates his Paper Excellence independently. Many stakeholders and regulators - global funding institutions, regulatory bodies and certifiers, among others - have acknowledged this reality. Paper Excellence's acquisition of Resolute was extensively reviewed under the Investment Canada Act.

"The public deserves much more transparency from Paper Excellence..."

'A good facility in a good location,' says Canfor Pulp president.

Heinzel Group announces the conversion of an idled paper machine at the Steyrermühl mill in Austria for the production of sustainable kraft papers for flexible packaging. Heinzel will take over the Steyrermühl site from UPM on January 1st, 2024, according to an agreement signed in 2022, and will enter the market with a new range of unbleached and bleached kraft papers shortly thereafter.

Celgar now says it will curtail production from March 18 to 28.

Clearwater Paper is closing a consumer tissue converting and distribution facility in Thomaston, Ga., in a move that will affect 150 employees who will be given opportunities to seek open positions within the company.

According to officials, these changes will eliminate around 1,300 positions.

The Sonoco Hutchinson Paper Mill has closed, affecting over 100 employees as a result.

Successful completion of wet section rebuild by Toscotec; machine glazed PM2 produces specialty papers including MG grades, flexible packaging products.

The development of the two-lane ring road by RAPP, at the cost of Rp.3 billion, is APRIL's contribution to the Pelalawan Regency Government of a strategic infrastructural asset for the region. The road will alleviate traffic congestion and contribute to the mobility of Pelalawan residents, and in turn boost the regional economy.

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 Derek H. Page, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2003.

The PM40 closed Friday, 17 March 2023, at 4783.

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The PM40 closed 17 March 2023 up 0.2% from the 18 March 2022 level.