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Equipment and operations were not halted

A natural step in streamlining the business

JDI's forest operations projects economic growth for 2015

Local businesses and contractors being kept busy by expansion

Collective Agreement at Tembec to be voted on

Acquisition of high quality timberlands in Alabama and Mississippi

Thorsby operations get improvements for expansion

Merger to create a leading global wood products company focused on oriented strand board ("OSB")

Transaction approved by courts

Production capacity for paperboard at the UK mill will rise by 10 per cent

Ashdown, AR mill to convert a paper machine to fluff pulp line

Employees will return to work

Strategy is to grow profitably its fresh forest fibre paperboard business

More efficient and it increases the quality of the oil

The project is for improved safety and more efficient maintenance operations

Incident under investigation

Contract worker was delivering wood chips to the Crofton mill

Graphic Packaging excels with this merger

When it comes to handwriting on the proverbial wall, the message might not be pleasant, but ignoring it and burying your head in the sand is a mistake.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Fifth Assessment Report in November. Despite being an engineer who has worked with numbers and computer simulations even more than the average engineer has, I find the IPCC reports very heavy reading, with masses of data, often qualified as being imprecise. I cannot imagine any of the politicians that I have met personally having either the time, inclination or capacity to read and understand these reports.

It was nearly 23 years ago I started this company with a premise. That premise was that the pulp and paper industry was being clobbered by bad public relations related to its environmental performance and that it made more sense to work on the public relations than deal with lawsuits. That premise proved wrong, for industry management at the time and for some years thereafter thought the lawsuit route was more "fun" (that is my interpretation, they sure spent a lot of money on nothing if they weren't having fun). I moved on to other ways to spin my invoice printer. Time for a bold prediction again...

The PM40 closed Friday, 28 November 2014 at 3340

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The PM40 closed 28 November 2014 up 12% from the 29 November 2013 level.

In this issue, we evaluate Louisiana-Pacific Corporation and Potlatch Corporation.

Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.