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Sustainable packaging leader DS Smith scored 67 in the 2021 S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment, reflecting an improvement of 16 points over the last year. (Score date: Nov 12, 2021).

The increase will be effective for all shipments made on or after the 13 th December 2021.

The new defendants include J.D. Irving Ltd. and 18 of its subsidiaries or related entities, NB Power, Acadian Timber, Twin Rivers Paper, H.J. Crabbe & Sons and A.V. Group. The companies are named in addition to the governments of New Brunswick and Canada.

Stora Enso is extending its packaging offering with a new portfolio of bio-based foams from wood. The products are fully recyclable and can be used for protective and thermal packaging. Lightweight wood foams address the need for climate-friendly, renewable and circular cushioning materials in inner packaging.

National Gypsum® is donating a total of $1 million to support communities throughout the United States and Canada where National Gypsum Company and its family of affiliated companies, including Gold Bond Building Products, LLC, Gold Bond Canada, Ltd., PermaBASE Building Products, LLC, ProForm Finishing Products, LLC and Unifix Inc., have operations.

2021 marks Mercer Celgar's 60th anniversary in operation. As we reflect on our history, we remain squarely focused on rising to the challenges that we face as a sector, working hard to help build a more sustainable and positive economic future - for Castlegar, our surrounding communities, and the families that live within them.

IQ EXTRALIGHT offers an excellent printability, folding performance and is developed for both web and sheet-fed offset printing.

The Smurfit Kappa Bag-in-Box Ibi facility in Spain has started the production of bags with a new and more sustainable thermo-laminated metallised film - M-Compact 77.

The four-pillared APRIL2030 encompasses planned concrete actions to drive sustainability over the next decade.

Food banks around the U.S. are combatting food insecurity, which has dramatically increased since the beginning of the pandemic. International Paper, a leading producer of packaging and pulp products headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, is proud to build on their #HelpFillTheBoxes campaign with a significant donation to Feeding America® to help combat this critical need in the communities where their employees live and work.

Stora Enso continues to develop the Trayforma range further and introduces a new solution for conventionally heated food packaging applications, featuring less than 10% PET plastic. Trayforma is a wood fibre-based material for ready meals packaging, enabling brand owners and retailers to switch from fully fossil-based materials to renewables.

Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, has taken home a Hungaropack award for its sustainable paper-based FlexiBag at this year's contest organised by the Hungarian Association of Packaging and Materials Handling.

UPM continues to aim for business-specific collective bargaining with the Paperworkers' Union but has also begun preparations for arranging working conditions temporarily without a collective labour agreement until agreements with the union are signed. During this week UPM communicates the temporary terms of work to employees of businesses where the contractual party is the Paperworkers' Union.

Canfor Corporation announced it is providing $125,000 to the Canadian Red Cross' British Columbia Flood and Extreme Weather Appeal to support their response efforts.

Sonoco, one of the largest global diversified packaging companies, in partnership with Tellus Products, LLC, a company that produces USA grown and made, plant-based compostable packaging for foodservice products, announced the receipt of a prequalified label, Check Locally for recyclability from How2Recycle for the Natrellis line of food packaging.

Start-up is scheduled for the second quarter of 2023.

Valmet will supply IQ quality control system to Ahlström-Munksjö Ställdalen AB in Sweden. The new system will replace the old third-party system and will be installed on nonwoven machine FM2 to improve productivity and final quality.

Valmet will deliver the 100th latest generation Valmet Recovery Liquor Analyzer to Domtar's Hawesville integrated pulp and paper mill in the United States. Throughout the years, Valmet has supplied over 300 liquor analyzers to pulp mills.

International technology group Andritz has successfully completed the start-up of a pressurized refining system supplied to Biyang Huifeng Wood Industry Board at its MDF production plant in Biyang, Henan province, China.

International technology group ANDRITZ has successfully started up a chemi-thermomechanical pulping system delivered to Sun Paper for its mill in the city of Beihai, Guangxi, China.

Bruks Siwertell has secured an order for a Bruks mobile chipper from J.D. Irving, Limited's Irving Woodlands division, one of the largest forestry land holders in Canada. It will process forest residues into mini chips for pellet production at J.D. Irving, Limited's Grand River Pellet plant in Saint Leonard, New Brunswick, Canada. It can also process forestry waste into biofuel chips for the plant's boilers.

Valmet will supply IQ quality control system to Ahlström-Munksjö Ställdalen AB in Sweden. The new system will replace the oldValmet has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) for the eighth consecutive year. The company was listed both in the Dow Jones Sustainability World and Europe indices. The total number of companies included this year in the DJSI World for 2021-2022 is 322.

There is an ongoing debate regarding the use of biomass to fill energy needs and the impact it has on the environment.

Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

Chatham offered to buy Donnelley for $7.50 a share in October, but Atlas Holdings has since offered to buy the company for $8.52 a share.