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WestRock is closing its Newark plant, potentially putting more than 100 employees out of work.

Resolute Forest Products says multiple factors are contributing to the ongoing shutdown of its sawmill at Ignace.

"After careful review of the current state of the facility, the company determined that its napkin and towel business should be produced at other GP facilities, including other facilities in Green Bay," the company wrote in a letter to state workforce development officials.

Sussex-based Quad/Graphics Inc. plans to sell its U.S. book business as part of its Quad 3.0 transformation strategy.

Cascades Inc. announces that it will permanently close tissue converting operations at its Waterford, New York and Kingman, Arizona plants, effective March 27, 2020.

Klabin SA will invest 3.8 billion reais ($950 million) in its 'Puma 2' containerboard expansion project next year, and will end 2019 with lower stocks of cellulose than it did last year, executives said.

The director of strategy for Global Win Capital, the subsidiary of Shanying International that owns Phoenix Paper, said it has stalled production at the paper mill until around Nov. 11.

Mark Rhodes, president of United Steelworkers Local 712, said that 99.6 percent of workers opposed the contract, with 85 percent of members voting.

There were no injuries in a fire at the Quad/Graphics plant in Sussex Thursday, Oct. 24, though five workers were evaluated and released.

Veritiv leases 311,707 square feet of the facility.

Major changes are coming to Appvion's Spring Mill.

Fortress Global Enterprises Inc. announces that the Toronto Stock Exchange has notified the Company that it is reviewing the eligibility of the Company's securities for continued listing on the TSX pursuant to the requirements of the TSX Company Manual.

Georgia-Pacific is idling two rural South Carolina facilities that employ 240 workers, blaming sluggish conditions in the U.S. home-building industry.

Stora Enso plans to make organizational changes in the Paper division following the Oulu Mill conversion at the end of 2020. The planned changes could result in a reduction of a maximum of 135 employees in the Paper division.

They will be exiting the following segments of their specialty business: • Pressure Sensitive • Embedded Cards • Dimensional Items • Magnets

Greif, Inc. announced that it is ceasing operations at its Number 1 paperboard machine at the Mobile Paperboard Mill in Mobile, Alabama.

Enviva is to build a new production plant in Alabama. The company is expected to invest around $175 million (Euro 159.2 million) to build the plant.

An Irving-owned sawmill in northwestern New Brunswick will close on Nov. 1, resulting in the loss of 65 jobs.

The cause of a conveyor belt fire at the WestRock Paper Mill in West Point is under investigation.

The nursery will produce 15 million eucalyptus seedlings, including genetically improved clonal material from Gerdau and International Paper do Brazil.

The Town of Fort Frances faces a looming deadline while it works hard to find a buyer for the former Resolute paper mill.

International Paper on 30 Oct. 2019 announced that it has completed the sale of its controlling interest (21,873,521 shares) in International Paper APPM Limited, an India-based printing paper business, to West Coast Paper Mills Limited for approximately $85 million.

Huhtamaki celebrated the inauguration of its newest fiber packaging line in Invanteevka, Russia.

On 1 November 2019, Metsä Wood is opening a new terminal in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK for landed joinery sales.