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No injuries were reported in the fire.

The County of Grande Prairie Regional Fire Service was on the scene at the Weyerhaeuser sawmill after a structure fire at the facility at approximately 6 a.m. Monday, Feb. 21.

SCA says it will invest SEK 90 million ($9.7 million) in the pulp mill in Östrand, Sweden. The investment will lead to cost savings but also increase the mill's production capacity. The investment will also improve the local environment by reducing the risk of odor disturbances.

Ahead of schedule, Domtar's Kingsport plant manager said roughly 170 employees are currently in training to be able to safely produce the brown paper cardboard.

In 2019 when the company announced its new facility in Kalamazoo, representatives at the time described a new machine that would be housed at the new location would be used to replace other production facilities like the one in Battle Creek.

Having paused reopening efforts last fall in part because of concerns about street crime in Seattle's downtown core, Weyerhaeuser will be returning to its Pioneer Square headquarters in April.

The majority of operations at Columbia Pulp LLC will shut down for an undetermined length of time starting Friday, Feb. 18, while the young company works on developing a market for its unique product.

Fire crews responded to a machinery fire inside the Dunn Paper mill in Port Huron Thursday afternoon, Feb. 17.

Canfor Pulp Products Inc. is announcing a minimum six-week curtailment of BCTMP production at Taylor Pulp in response to significant transportation shortages that have resulted in inventories at the pulp mill reaching capacity.

Boralex Inc. announces an agreement for the sale of the 34.5 MW Senneterre power plant in Quebec, Canada. The power plant has been purchased by Resolute Forest Products Canada Inc.

Canfor Corporation has announced the permanent reduction of 150 million board feet of production capacity at its Plateau Sawmill to resize the facility and align it with the available, sustainable timber supply in the region following the devastating impacts of the Mountain Pine Beetle infestation and other constraints on the timber harvesting land base.

Menasha Packaging Company, LLC, a subsidiary of Menasha Corporation, announces it has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of Color-Box, a business unit of Georgia-Pacific, LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close in early summer 2022.

The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of 2022, subject to regulatory approvals.

Meadow Lake Mechanical Pulp Inc., which employs 190 people and infuses over $1 million daily into Canada's economy, is dependent on CN Rail, which has failed to transport Meadow Lake's pulp production to ports for months. The mill has exhausted local storage facilities.

Georgia-Pacific has completed a $7 million upgrade at Diboll Lumber Mill in Texas that will modernize the mill and help increase its overall production. The capital project focused on the mill's boiler reliability and maintenance and the rebuild of two drying kilns.

Stora Enso announced that it has signed a letter of intent to divest the Kvarnsveden site in Sweden to Northvolt. Due to structural decline in demand for graphical paper, in April 2021 Stora Enso announced a plan to close its Kvarnsveden paper production site. Founded in 1900, Kvarnsveden produced pulp and paper for over 120 years until production ended in September 2021.

Cascades Inc., a leader in sustainable recycling, hygiene and packaging solutions, unveiled its 2022-2024 strategic update that commits to leveraging the Company's strong asset base and product portfolio to accelerate value creation and improve profitability. The strategy also introduces new financial targets focusing on free cash flow generation and a plan to improve profitability of its Tissue Group.

Rengo Co., Ltd. will open the Yashio Second Logistics Center, a logistics center for containerboard in the Kanto region, Japan. Start of operations of 30,563 m² warehouse scheduled on April 2022.

Bast Fibre Technologies Inc. (BFT), a manufacturer of premium natural fibres, has completed its purchase of Georgia-Pacific's Lumberton Cellulose LLC. The Lumberton, NC site is a highly automated state-of-the-art manufacturing facility with approximately 25 employees that will now operate under the new name of BFT Lumberton.

Mondi PLC said that it will sell its personal-care components business to Nitto Denko Corp. for 615 million euros ($699.5 million) as it focuses on expanding its business in packaging.

Sonoco, one of the largest global sustainable packaging companies, announced that two members of the Company's Board of Directors will be leaving.

Well, it wasn't really all that sudden if you are a student of history or have lived long enough.

The PM40 closed Friday, 25 February 2022, at 4290.

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The PM40 closed 25 February 2022 up 6.2% from the 25 February 2021 level.

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