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Valmet will supply the seventh tissue line delivery including an extensive automation package to Turkish tissue producer Hayat Kimya.

Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the Shenandoah Valley, with 426 confirmed cases in Harrisonburg by April 30, LSC Communications has confirmed more cases of the virus in their workplace.

An industrial fire has caused significant damage to a building on the site where San Group is building a remanufacturing plant in Port Alberni.

Short-time working was also introduced at the sawmills in Mönsterås and Hamina in Finland at the same time.

Six Democratic senators have urged the U.S. Justice Department to take a hard look at what they called a "problematic" merger of the No. 2 and No. 3 largest textbook companies, Cengage and McGraw-Hill.

San Group has purchased another mill in Port Alberni, Canada. The Surrey-based forestry group bought the former Chalwood Forest Products mill on Hector Road, and is already operating while they clean up the site.

Domtar is temporarily laying off 60 employees at their mill in Rothschild for the next twelve weeks. The mill has around 400 employees, meaning just under one in seven people are affected.

Domtar Corporation announced it has completed its purchase of the Point of Sale (POS) paper business from Appvion Operations, Inc.

Domtar plans to temporarily idle the operations of its Hawesville, Kentucky, mill beginning May 5th 2020.

A fire in a pit at Pratt Industries Paper Mills in Staten Island on Sunday night (April 26) prompted an "all hands" response from the FDNY, a spokesman for the department said.

A total of five employees at Georgia Pacific in Madison have tested positive for COVID-19, the highly contagious and potentially lethal coronavirus ravaging the globe. The company would not confirm whether or not those who tested positive live in Morgan County or travel from outside counties to work.

North Strabane firefighters responded Tuesday morning, 22 April, to an International Paper facility for a roof-top incinerator that had caught fire.

On April 22, 2020, the Pixelle Specialty Solutions mill in Jay, ME restarted two of its paper machines. The A4 and A5 machines are now running 24x7 and customer service and sales personnel are taking orders from customers.

Arauco will close its medium density fiberboard (MDF) production facility in Bennettsville, South Carolina May 18.

The UPM Blandin paper mill is the latest long-standing business in northeastern Minnesota to close due to the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic.

Graphic Packaging has revealed plans to close White Pigeon, Michigan coated recycled board (CRB) mill and PM1 containerboard machine in West Monroe, Louisiana.

After 58 years of operation under the Patterson family, Shoreline Container recently was sold.

Workers at Sappi's Cloquet paper mill will return to work Thursday following a one-week layoff as the mill prepares for a three-week outage.

Current global conditions and recent events impacting Paper Excellence require us to extend the curtailment of paper operations at Powell River and Crofton.

No one was injured after a fire broke out early Friday, April 17, at Domtar paper mill in Rothschild.

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. and Paper Australia Pty Ltd ("Australian Paper"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Paper Industries, complete the purchase of Orora Limited's paperboard and fibre-based packaging business in Australia/New Zealand.

A case of COVID-19 has been confirmed at a Weyerhaeuser lumber mill in Eastern Carolina.

The WestRock paper mill has started screening its Longview mill workers at least four days of the week to "further minimize" potential coronavirus exposures.

Responding to what union officials consider the company's minimalist approach to COVID safety precautions, two locals with the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers have requested to bargain for extra measures with Nippon Dynawave Packaging in Longview.