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Cascades Inc. announced that it will close its Etobicoke, Ontario Containerboard packaging facility as part of the strategic repositioning of its Containerboard platform in Ontario and the Corporation's continuing global optimization initiatives.

Mondi Paper Bags, part of Mondi Group, a leading global packaging and paper manufacturer, has acquired two paper bag lines from Helwan Cement Company and InterCement Sacs, two major cement producers in Egypt.

Mondi Syktyvkar has completes a major step in the modernisation of its state of the art power plant, with a capital investment of around Euro135 million.

Greif Inc. will close a Town of Tonawanda packaging manufacturing facility that the company has operated for 22 years.

Earlier this year, everything was proceeding according to plan for the Dryden Mill's spring maintenance outage. The small community of about 8,000 people located in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, was also preparing for an influx of about 500 vendors and contractors.

Sappi Europe is very pleased to report that its Alfeld site PM 3 is operational again as of the 20th of July, significantly ahead of the planned restart date. As previously reported the largest area of reconstruction focused on the machine hall with limited damage to the machine.

UPM's Jyväskylä plywood mill will be permanently closed on July 31, 2020, UPM announced. The jobs cut will be 147.

BillerudKorsnäs has appointed Christoph Michalski as new President and CEO. He succeeds Lennart Holm, who has been acting President and CEO since November 2019. Christoph Michalski will assume his new position November 1, 2020.

At about 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, deputies were dispatched to the back gate of Verso's Escanaba Mill. While preparing to dump a wood chip trailer at the mill, a driver had heard a man yelling from inside the trailer. The driver left the mill and called law enforcement.

As part of a large-scale investment program, Ilim Group is finalizing its environmental project worth $91 million that involves construction of a new Evaporation Plant (EVAP 8) with the highest capacity in Russia at Ilim's Mill in Bratsk, Russia.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö announces a further investment in its Binzhou plant to be able to produce abrasive backing papers locally in China.

Ilim Group says it has started up a new woodroom at its Bratsk mill in Russia. The new woodroom includes three lines with an aggregate capacity of 5 million cubic meters of chips per year. The project investments amounted to $125 million.

Brazilian pulpmaker Klabin SA said on Wednesday it is planning a 367 million-real ($70.98 million) share offering in favor of Sogemar - Sociedade Geral de Marcas Ltda - shareholders to incorporate the company to its business.

Atlas Engineered Products ("AEP") has completed the acquisition of selected assets of Trusstem Industries Inc., marking a major milestone in AEP's plans for expansion into the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada.

Our Sawmills Division has recently completed a $4.9 million investment at the Kedgwick Sawmill. The modernization has meant work for nearly 60 contractors from other small communities from Bathurst to Edmundston.

SCA has appointed Anders Edholm as new Senior Vice President Communications and member of SCA's Executive Management Team. Anders is succeeding Björn Lyngfelt, who will retire.

This is directed at those companies with printing & writing machines shut down. May I suggest that perhaps your job today is to create demand? Yes, I know those machines are big, and turning just one on can flood us with more fine paper than we know what to do with, but perhaps it is worth a shot.

The PM40 closed Friday, 31 July 2020, at 2927.

Get the latest PM40 updates by listening to the weekly Nips show and the PM40 Daily Show on Pulp & Paper Radio International.

The PM40 closed 31 July 2020 down 7.8% from the 2 August 2019 level.

In this issue of Disconnected Comparisons, we evaluate Glatfelter and Louisiana Pacific.

The province has accused Northern Pulp of misappropriating taxpayer funds and misrepresenting its financial state to allow it to funnel more money back to its parent company.

Mondi has launched a health and safety app as a new way to communicate to its colleagues on well-being in the workplace.

The new centre will be operated by Memorial University and the College of the North Atlantic, with Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited putting up a vacant building and signing on to handle the maintenance of it in the future.

More than 30 former officers and directors of bankrupt paper company Appvion Inc have won dismissal of a lawsuit by a company employee benefit plan accusing them of inflating the value of its stock.

The paper mill in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, was fined $25,000 following a federal investigation into the December incident that led to the death of former professional hockey player Scot Kleinendorst.