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IT Tech Packaging, Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of diversified paper products in North China, today (23 Aug 2019) announced that Mr. Zhenyong Liu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, visited Asia Symbol (Shandong) Pulp and Paper Co., Ltd., the largest wood pulp producer in China and a key supplier of the Company from which the Company currently gets adequate wood pulp on a monthly basis for its tissue paper business.

Fortress Global Enterprises Inc. announces that, as a result of ongoing financial constraints impacting the Company primarily resulting from a 10-year low in dissolving pulp prices, the Board of Directors has formed a Strategic Committee to consider various strategic and financing alternatives potentially available to the Company, including a recapitalization, restructuring and/or business combination transaction.

A couple of weeks ago a famous price index reporter announced they are starting a price index for recycled linerboard. This is a "solution" in search of a problem!

The PM40 closed Friday, 30 August 2019, at 2909.

Get the latest PM40 updates by listening to the weekly Nips show and the PM40 Daily Show on Pulp & Paper Radio International.

Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

The PM40 closed 30 August 2019 down 30.3% from the 31 August 2018 level.

In this issue of Disconnected Comparisons, we evaluate Louisiana Pacific and Rayonier.

More workers at Georgia Pacific in Crossett are having to look for other jobs.

St. Stephen will lose 60 to 75 jobs by the end of the year because particleboard operations at the Arauco plant will be shutting down.

Tolko says its Armstrong, Lumby and Heffley Creek operations in British Columbia will see shift reductions as volatile conditions continue to plague the province's lumber industry.

International technology Group ANDRITZ has acquired the Swedish company KEMPULP, a specialist provider of process technologies for the chemical pulping industry.

Over the next three years, the collaboration will provide education to 4,000 pupils and 500 teachers in Mexico City and Chihuahua about attitudes and habits in connection with menstrual hygiene management and hand washing.

For filmmaker David Craig, a new documentary depicting the fraught emotions over the future of a rural Nova Scotia pulp mill is not solely a local story.

Smurfit Kappa was once again recognized by the FTSE4Good Index for its commitment to sustainability.

Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, is one of the founding members of Alliance Gobelet Carton that was founded in the spring to organise a pilot for the collection and recycling of paperboard cups in France.

Burnout is a serious workplace issue

Georgia-Pacific's plan to expand its operating footprint in Green Bay has been put on hold.

Emergency crews were called to the scene of a chemical fire at a paper mill in Lynn Tuesday, August 13.

Crews were called to the Cascades containerboard packaging facility at 4:35 a.m. Tuesday morning (Aug. 13) where they remain on scene putting out a fire in the dryer area.

The move will expand Universal's capacity to produce value-added siding and trim for customers in its Northwest and Mountain West regions.

Phoenix Paper, which runs a paper mill in west Kentucky, is expanding with a new facility that represents a $200 million investment.

Canadian billionaire Jim Pattison, whose conglomerate owns businesses including supermarkets, fisheries and billboards, offered to take lumber producer Canfor Corp. private for about C$981.6 million ($742 million). The stock surged in response.

After more than a year of mulling their options, the owners of the defunct mill property in Newberg have renewed their plans to sell the site.

A fire is out at the Middletown Essity mill after crews responded and worked on the roof.

Kimberly-Clark will hire about 120 machine operators and 10 maintenance electricians and mechanics by the end of 2020 at its Neenah Cold Spring Facility.