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Some workers at Georgia-Pacific's Palatka mill took refuge Wednesday after a toxic gas leak at the facility.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company announced it has reach an agreement to buy Artistic Carton Company, a package manufacturing company, for an undisclosed amount.

As part of a $57.5-million plan, Domtar will implement new equipment and processes to commercialize its 'Stealth Fibre Technology,' which will produce stronger paper and allow for the production of innovative products that could replace single-use plastics when it comes to things like medical packaging and food wrap.

The Brooks County Fire Department says the Rayonier Chip Mill suffered major damage in a Sunday morning fire.

LSC Communications Inc and Quad/Graphics have terminated their $1.4 billion merger, a month after the U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit to block the deal, the companies said.

UPM has today made the investment decision to construct a 2,1 million tonne greenfield eucalyptus pulp mill near Paso de los Toros in central Uruguay.

The small community of Fort St. James, B.C., has declared a state of local financial crisis in the wake of the closure and recent sale of its largest sawmill.

Stora Enso is investing Euro 10 million to build a pilot facility for producing bio-based carbon materials based on lignin.

A northwest Louisiana coroner says a 43-year-old man has died of injuries from an industrial explosion late last month.

Crews with the Putnam County Fire and Rescue Department (PCFR) are working to determine what caused an incident at a paper manufacturing mill in Putnam County on Wednesday, July 17.

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.