Plum Creek Timber Co. has completed a new four-year USD 600 million revolving credit facility.
Western Forest Products Inc.has finalized agreements to amend both its term loan and revolving credit line facilities.
Metso has concluded employee negotiations concerning personnel reductions at its Juankoski plant in Finland.
Metso Corporation has signed a EUR 500 million revolving five-year committed loan facility.
Metso and Howe Sound Pulp & Paper have announced an agreement to retrofit the existing Babcock and Wilcox biomass power boiler.
Vaahto Pulp & Paper Machinery will supply five headboxes for two packaging boards production line of Vantage Dragon Ltd. in China.
The CTMP line at Rottneros mill has been idled since the beginning of December.
Andritz will supply a deinking plant to Tamil Nadu Newsprint & Papers Limited, India.
Around this time of year, people start asking me what I think the next year is going offer the pulp and paper industry.
Graphic Packaging International, Inc. is beginning a projhect to expand use of biomass energy at its mill in Macon, Georgia.
Fraser Papers Inc. has received the necessary court approvals to complete the sale its paper mill in Gorham, New Hampshire, USA.
Potlatch Corporation announced that it has voted to transfer its stock exchange listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the NASDAQ.
Canfor Corporation announced that it will be proceeding with a 2011 capital spending plan of CAD 145 million for its lumber business.
Domtar Corp. today announced that it has sold its 48,070,712 common shares of EACOM Timber Corporation.
Sappi Fine Paper North America has successfully completed capital projects totaling USD 49 million at its Somerset mill in Maine.
Tembec will be making an investment in a green energy project at its mill in Tartas, France.
Orient Paper provides its outlook for fiscal year 2011.
Nowadays, maintaining a working relationship with a range of environmental advocacy organizations is an essential part of doing business.
RockTenn will hold its conference call to discuss its first quarter of fiscal 2011 results on 26 January 2011 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
The Government of Canada announced today an investment in new Canadian technology at Catalyst Paper.
Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation announces that the UNIK Local 34 union at the La Tuque, Quebec, mill in Canada rejected the company's contract offer tendered on 10 November.
The St. Joe Company has entered into a new pulpwood supply agreement with Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation.
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The PM40 closed 26 November 2010 at 1811.57, down 3.9% from our last report – 05 November 2010.
