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BillerudKorsnäs is launching Repel Pure, a paper where the grease-resistant barrier is plant-based and totally biological.

Be safe -- and healthy

Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

The investments in maintenance planned for 2020 will amount to R$3.6 billion, while investments in expansion and modernization projects will require approximately R$300 million.

The expected purchase price is approximately US$93 million.

Verso is seeking to replace the leadership of its board of directors to ward off the election a competing slate of nominees chosen by a group of investors that Verso says is waging a proxy war for control of the company.

Fortress Global Enterprises Inc. announces that it has failed to receive any indications of interest pursuant to its previously announced strategic and financing initiative by the required deadline under the financing agreement entered into among the Company's wholly owned subsidiaries, Fortress Specialty Cellulose Inc. and Fortress Bioenergy Ltd.

The Ministry of Labour is investigating an industrial accident at Resolute Forest Products' Thunder Bay sawmill.

An explosion at Georgia Pacific's Clarendon plant injured one person Monday afternoon (Dec. 9).

A former professional hockey player from Grand Rapids, Scot Kleinendorst, 59, was badly injured and fighting for his life following a heavy machinery accident at the town's paper mill, UPM Blandin, over the weekend earlier this month.

Crews responded to a fire at ST Tissue Facility's Fiber Recycling Plant Friday morning (Dec. 6).

Central National Gottesman Inc. (CNG), which owns a range of sales and distribution businesses in the global pulp, paper, tissue, packaging, wood products and metals industries, announced that its Spicers Paper division will add Kilmer, Wagner & Wise (KWW) Paper Company to its packaging portfolio.

Stora Enso is merging its container board business in the Packaging Solutions division with the Consumer Board division, creating a new Packaging Materials division.

A fire was reported at a Graphic Packaging facility in Kenton, Ohio early Dec. 3.

Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. announced that the Company plans to re-submit two management proposals to the Company's stockholders for a vote at its next Annual Stockholder Meeting in 2020.

Georgia Pacific's Diboll lumber plant is celebrating 125 years of operation.

Smurfit Kappa Group PLC on Friday said Christel Borie retired from her position as non-executive director on Thursday.

On 18 June 2019, Tieto Corporation announced an agreement to combine Tieto and EVRY ASA ("EVRY") through a cross-border merger.

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 late Douglas Wahren, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2017.

The PM40 closed Friday, 13 December 2019, at 3237.

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Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

The PM40 closed 13 December 2019 down 3.5% from the 14 December 2018 level.

In this issue of Disconnected Comparisons, we evaluate International Paper and Kimberly-Clark.

Innovation Norway has allocated NOK 17 million for research and development of fiber composites at Norske Skog Saugbrugs and Borregaard.

One person was killed when the wildfire ravaged an area totalling 14,000 hectares in the central Vastmanland region in 2014.