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UFP Industries announced that one of its affiliates acquired the operating assets of T&R Lumber Company and its affiliates, Sullivan & Mann and Kelmar Creations.

Georgia-Pacific has been piloting its Juno recycling technology in Georgia since 2013.

Sappi Limited said the move will cumulatively remove capacity, reduce costs, improve machine utilization and increase competitiveness.

Approximately 80 of Georgia-Pacific Muskogee Mill's workers are temporarily being laid off.

Veritiv Corp. reported it is launching a restructuring that will result in the reduction of its U.S. salaried workforce by approximately 15% across all business segments and corporate functions.

Sappi North America said it will permanently shut down a paper machine and lay off 75 people, nearly 30 percent of the workforce at its Westbrook mill. Just hours later, Pixelle Specialty Solutions said it will lay off 59 workers in the first part of a phased workforce reduction, in response to a suspension of pulp production there after its pulp digester exploded in April.

Gov. John Bel Edwards and Senior Vice President Wayne Morgan of Hood Container of Louisiana LLC announced the company's paper mill in West Feliciana Parish will complete a $50 million efficiency upgrade and capacity expansion..

Unifor is urging the Nova Scotia government to work with Northern Pulp to secure Debtor-In-Possession (DIP) financing amid the company's restructuring.

Sussex-based Quad/Graphics Inc. has sold its Versailles, Kentucky book manufacturing plant to Minnesota-based CJK Group Inc.

Equipment used included five engines, two truck companies, four water tenders, and three command vehicles.

Wisconsin-based Quad/Graphics Inc. stopped a Minneapolis agency from using the phrase "Black Lives Matter," prompting the entire staff to walk off the job last week.

One person was extricated from a 10-foot pit and taken by helicopter to York Hospital after being injured Thursday, July 2, at Pixelle's paper mill's secondary waste treatment facility in North Codorus Township, according to York County 911.

One person was extricated from a 10-foot pit and taken by helicopter to York Hospital after being injured Thursday, July 2, at Pixelle's paper mill's secondary waste treatment facility in North Codorus Township, according to York County 911.

International Paper's Director of Marketing Thomas Ryan said that what they found on site in late June was actually not a noose at all.

Enviva Partners, LP (the Partnership) has completed the acquisition from its sponsor of Enviva Pellets Greenwood Holdings II, LLC, which, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, owns a wood pellet production plant in Greenwood, South Carolina.

Atlas Engineered Products has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire selected assets of a local truss manufacturer as the company expands its geographical footprint into the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, the company said in a statement.

Mondi has commissioned a crude tall oil plant (CTO-plant) at its Syktyvkar pulp and paper mill in Russia.

Lecta Group announces that all necessary conditions precedent required for the implementation of Recapitalization have been obtained and it is expected that the Recapitalization Effective Date will be 16 July 2020.

BillerudKorsnäs has made a valuation of approximately 36,000 hectares of forest assets in Sweden, of which approximately 18,000 hectares are productive forests, in which the biological assets are valued according to IAS41.

Appvion Operations, Inc., launches an industry leading antimicrobial coating technology for a variety of substrates called SafeShieldTM!

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 140 papermaking innovators and legends have been enshrined. This month, we profile Curt G. Joa, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007.

The PM40 closed Friday, 17 July 2020, at 2941.

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The PM40 closed 17 July 2020 down 8.5% from the 19 July 2019 level.

In this issue of Disconnected Comparisons, we evaluate Amcor and UPM Kymmene.

British Columbia Forest Practices Board proclaimed that an audit of the BC Timber Sales (BCTS) program and timber-sale licensees operating under the program has found poor results.