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The Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority (OHSWA) recently honored the Little Falls, NY, operations of Twin Rivers Paper with their annual Recycling Champion Award for 2022. OHSWA recognizes one certified RecycleOne Business each year that has taken the initiative to reduce its solid waste stream through reduction, recycling and proper disposal.

Sofidel has received an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) Risk Rating of 13.6 from Morningstar Sustainalytics.

Effective March 1, Sylvamo will add Karl Meyers and Mark Wilde, expanding the company's board to 11 directors.

Stora Enso and Valmet have started collaborating on next-generation lignin product and process development to drive Stora Enso's lignin-based businesses and further improve the performance of the Valmet LignoBoost technology. The objective of the partnership is to further develop the quality and customer value of lignin, increase the supply by optimised process machinery and asset design, and to accelerate the speed of meeting the growing lignin demand of the future.

To help major food brands achieve important sustainability goals, Pactiv Evergreen, a leading manufacturer of fresh food and beverage packaging in North America, is teaming up with AmSty, the leading manufacturer of polystyrene in North America and a pioneer in circular recycling of polystyrene. Pactiv Evergreen will soon offer customers innovative foam polystyrene packaging products with AmSty's post-consumer recycled content derived from advanced recycling technologies.

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (RRD), a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions, today announced several award wins in recognition of its sustainable business practices and human resource (HR) excellence related to its investments in the growth and development of employees.

Stora Enso also reports against the SASB's Sustainability Accounting Standards for Forest Management and Containers & Packaging.

Sappi's Thrive25 sustainability goal seeks to reduce total specific energy use by 1% annually for five years.

On Monday, Feb. 13, the legal team representing residents filed a lawsuit saying harmful chemicals beneath the mill are being dumped in the Catawba river.

OnceMore® from Södra is the world's first large-scale process for recycling blended fabrics and is now breaking new ground being implemented in TENCEL™ x REFIBRA™. The Swedish fashion house Filippa K will be the first brand to premiere the fibre in its Spring/Summer 2024 collection, debuting this autumn.

Paper Excellence Canada announced a $100,000 gift to the Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF) to boost efforts to conserve and restore Pacific salmon populations across B.C. The gift will be distributed through grants in communities where Paper Excellence operates to help advance community-driven stewardship initiatives at a local level.

Cruz Foam, a circular materials company, announced the launch of a revolutionary new family of earth-friendly protective packaging products highlighting highly performant solutions to meet specific customer needs for shipping fragile and temperature-sensitive goods for consumers and businesses. Cruz Foam's patented compostable foam outperforms equivalent plastic-based products and exceeds current industry standards for sustainability.

With Termax, Lecta boasts an extensive range of thermal papers that is constantly evolving to meet POS, ticket and label application needs.

Greif is pleased to announce the rebrand of its product circularity program, now known as Life Cycle Services by Greif. Backed by one of the most comprehensive sustainability programs in industrial packaging, Greif has a proven history of helping customers meet and exceed their sustainability goals.

Most pizza lovers stocking up for football's championship game know their leftover boxes can be recycled but an alarming 40% say they don't always do so.

The partnership is part of APRIL's recently launched community conservation programme, which has received support from local and provincial Government authorities in Riau, and will contribute to the Indonesian Government's climate and biodiversity protection goals.

The company seeks to confront the climate emergency through these near-term science-based emissions goals to secure the future of business, the planet, and society.

Amcor, a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging solutions, has won in four categories in the 2023 WorldStar Global Packaging Awards, organized by the World Packaging Organisation.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company, a leading provider of sustainable fiber-based consumer packaging solutions, has been named to Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies for 2023. Furthermore, Graphic Packaging was ranked number one in its industry sector of Packaging and Containers, reinforcing its continued dedication to providing essential and innovative packaging solutions for consumer brands worldwide.

ANDRITZ will deliver a FibreFlow Drum pulper with a maximum feed capacity of 1,400 t/d, various fiber cleaning equipment, and a spray water treatment system for the production of various board grades.

Stora Enso, a leading global provider of renewable solutions, has contracted ABB to upgrade two of their mills in Sweden to ABB Ability Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for pulp and paper to manage and streamline end-to-end production and improve overall mill efficiency.

Start-up is scheduled for early 2025.

Solenis has completed the acquisition of the stock of the Grand Invest Group on February 6, 2023. As part of the acquisition, Solenis will acquire all Grand Invest Group operating assets, including key strategic production and warehousing facilities.

International technology group ANDRITZ and KCF Technologies, a leading provider of machine health solutions, announced their global collaboration.

The systems will be installed in 2023.