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At a meeting earlier this month there was speculation on the fate Canfor's Vavenby mill site, and though a representative of the company said it will not operate as a sawmill again, there were suggestions made on how the site could be repurposed.

The Town of Fort Frances wishes to confirm for all of its citizens, stakeholders, and regional partners that the properties comprising the pulp and paper mill in Fort Frances have been sold by Resolute Forest Products.

Packaging and paper group Mondi said it had completed the simplification of its dual-listed structure into a single holding company after terminating arrangements between Mondi and Mondi Limited.

Western Forest Products Inc. ("Western") announced a temporary curtailment at its Ladysmith sawmill in Canada in part due to action taken by the United Steelworkers Local 1-1937 ("USW") which has impeded log supply to the mill.

Conifex Timber Inc. has taken the decision to temporarily curtail its Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada, sawmill operations for two weeks commencing July 29, 2019, due to continued high log costs and lumber market conditions.

Sonoco announced its Board of Directors has approved the termination of the Sonoco U.S. Pension Plan for Inactive Participants effective September 30, 2019.

SCA has appointed Katarina Nilsson new Senior Vice President Legal Affairs and General Counsel.

Michael Orye, Executive Vice President, Fiber Packaging and a member of Huhtamaki Global Executive Team has decided to leave Huhtamaki to pursue other career opportunities.

Often, mills or whole companies are lost because the management was too cheap and lacked creativity. Being cheap about your business in the long term means you do not innovate, you do not invest in your people, you do not invest in your brands. Do this long enough and you are dead

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A town councillor in Fort Frances wants the provincial government to reveal the details of an agreement the previous Liberal government struck with Resolute Forest Products.

Canfor is extending the curtailment at the Taylor pulp mill into September.

Stora Enso has signed an agreement to divest its 60% equity stake in the Dawang Mill in China, to its joint venture partner, Shandong Huatai Paper.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Graphic Packaging International LLC - an Atlanta, Georgia-based paper product manufacturer - for exposing employees to hot steam, and failing to ensure the use of proper hazardous energy control methods.

Canfor Corporation announced further capacity reductions at two of its British Columbia sawmills with an indefinite curtailment at its Mackenzie sawmill and the permanent elimination of one shift at its Isle Pierre sawmill.

Stora Enso has initiated feasibility studies for a possible cross laminated timber (CLT) unit in connection with its Ždírec mill in the Czech Republic and a new construction beam unit to be located at the Ybbs mill in Austria.

Start-up is scheduled in 2022.

Smurfit Kappa has developed a new e-commerce packaging solution for Enjoy Flowers, a brand of Colombian flower grower Jardines de Los Andes.

Australia's consumer watchdog is appealing against a Federal Court decision that found the makers of so-called flushable wipes did not mislead their customers.

Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a subsidiary of diversified conglomerate Sinar Mas Group, has announced that it is stepping up efforts to fight forest and bush fires in its concession areas in anticipation of the dry season.

This new product line offers reverse osmosis (RO) membrane element manufacturers improved performance when casting membranes.

An employee is filing a class action lawsuit against a Wisconsin-based specialized packaging company, alleging it breached information privacy law by making workers scan their fingerprints when punching in and out of work shifts.