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Annica Bresky will become chief executive of Finnish pulp, paper and packaging board maker Stora Enso Oyj from December, taking over from Karl-Henrik Sundstrom.

The Company will invest $600 million in the project, and the machine is expected to have an annual capacity of approximately 500,000 tons.

An order conditionally approving the sale of the Park Falls Flambeau River Papers mill was approved by Price County Judge Kevin Klein following a hearing Thursday afternoon.

Arkansas environmental officials have approved an air permit for a Chinese company's $1.8 billion paper mill that has been delayed by President Donald Trump's trade dispute with China.

Echoing remarks President Trump made during a previous visit to an Ohio manufacturing facility, an Australian billionaire said his investment here would not have been possible without Mr. Trump at the nation's helm.

In 2020, Stora Enso's estimated capital expenditure will be Euro 800-850 million, including Euro 200-230 million for the Oulu mill conversion and Euro 80-100 million for biological assets.

Columbia Pulp is in the final stages of launching the first straw pulp mill of its kind in North America.

Resolute Forest Products said it spent almost $35 million to maintain its Fort Frances mill in a "hot idle" state after it was shut down in 2014.

Universal Forest Products has acquired Hartford, Wisconsin-based Pallet USA, LLC, the company announced. The acquisition expands Universal's industrial product capacity and services in the Midwest.

The value of the investment was EUR 11 million.

DuPont Safety & Construction (DuPont) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the Ultrafiltration Membrane business from BASF including inge GmbH.

Voith has signed an agreement with Spectris plc to acquire BTG for a total gross cash consideration of Euro 319 million.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö is currently exploring potential acquisitions, mergers, and joint-ventures with decor paper suppliers in China to speed up the execution of its strategy and capture the attractive value-creation opportunity in the decor business. In addition, the company is investigating the possibility to attract outside capital investment into the Decor business to further fund such objectives.

This month in Nip Impressions we are going to be talking about quality in ways you may have never heard before. This will be a four-part series; the first column being dated "Week of 7 Oct 19" (actually issued on 3 Oct 19).

The PM40 closed Friday, 27 September 2019, at 3046.

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Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

The PM40 closed 27 September 2019 down 27.6% from the 28 September 2018 level.

In this issue of Disconnected Comparisons, we evaluate Ennis, Inc and 3M.

In addition to this important milestone, the company announced it will join the Science Based Targets, a global initiative that aims for companies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions based on climate science, to limit the planet's increase in temperature.

CelluStraw™, a new fiber based solution for drinking paper straws, has been recently launched and is specially designed to address the food industry's emerging initiatives to phase out single-use plastic straws.

SKF and Nordic Paper have signed a five-year fee- and performance-based contract. The agreement aims to improve Nordic Paper's productivity, health and safety and sustainability performance.

Indonesia has not imposed serious enough penalties on pulpwood and palm oil firms that had large fires on their land from 2015 to 2018, and more fires on some of those farms also polluted the region's air quality this year, Greenpeace said on Tuesday.

WestRock Company has provided an estimate of the impact of Hurricane Dorian on its fiscal fourth quarter financial results.

Tolko Industries is cutting back its operations at a lumber mill in Kelowna, affecting 127 jobs as the company becomes the latest in the industry to announce a shutdown in British Columbia.

Metsä Group has scheduled several planned annual maintenance shutdowns at its pulp mills for the autumn of 2019.