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The Final Word by Helen Roush (relevance: 100%, date: Jan 5, 2021)
Closures, cutbacks and capital projects

Capital Projects (relevance: 71.5%)
Capital Projects

Slogging Ahead? (relevance: 59.1%, date: Jan 4, 2022)
For many, the last couple of years have seemed like a never-ending march in some not so pleasant conditions. However, I do think it will make us all stronger, like most tough situations do. Remarkably, here at Paperitalo Publications, these have been excellent years for us. We don't know what next year holds, but for me at least, it would stifle the fun of it if we did. For a moment, however, let's see what 2021 did to us as an industry.

Market News of Note (relevance: 47.3%)
Market News of Note

Neenah Paper (NP) (relevance: 44%)
Neenah Paper (NP)

Mativ (MATV) (relevance: 43.1%)
Mativ (MATV)

The Pulp and Paper Industry does not slow down (relevance: 41.9%, date: Oct 5, 2020)
In my many decades in the industry, I can seldom remember times when our industry was as active and moving forward as it is now, Covid or no Covid. Perhaps the explosion in tissue growth in the 1970's was comparable, but I even doubt that. A rival could be when China burst upon the modern scene in the 1990's perhaps, but on a worldwide basis, now is about the busiest time I can remember. What's driving this? Several key factors are at work.

Amcor (AMCRY) (relevance: 39.4%)
Amcor (AMCRY)

British Columbia invests $8.6 million through BC Manufacturing Jobs Fund into wood-product projects (relevance: 39.1%, date: Feb 6, 2024)
Government of British Columbia is injecting up to $8.6 million through the BC Manufacturing Jobs Fund (BCMJF) into eight capital projects. These projects aim to create and safeguard hundreds of jobs in the wood-product and fabricated-metal manufacturing sectors, fostering economic growth in local communities.

Western Forest Products invests $29 million in its sawmills in British Columbia (relevance: 38.4%, date: Jul 19, 2022)
Western Forest Products Inc. announced capital investments totaling approximately $29 million towards its British Columbia (B.C.) operations in Canada. These capital investments represent an increase of $13 million over and above the $16 million of capital investments discussed in the Company's 1Q 2022 Management's Discussion and Analysis.

Metsä Board completes sale of Hangö Stevedoring to Euroports (relevance: 37.5%, date: Apr 5, 2022)
Metsä Board announced on 16 December 2021 that it has signed an agreement to sell its entire share capital of its fully owned subsidiary Oy Hangö Stevedoring Ab to Euroports Finland Oy. The arrangement has been completed on 31 March 2022.

Domtar Is Committed to Increased Recycling Rates for Paper, Cardboard (relevance: 36.8%, date: Sep 5, 2023)
Domtar now accepts all of the retailer's old cardboard containers to fuel production.

Interfor Completes Acquisition of Chaleur Forest Products and Announces Additional Long Term Debt Financing (relevance: 36.8%, date: Dec 6, 2022)
Interfor announced that it has completed the previously announced transaction to acquire 100% of the equity interests in the entities comprising Chaleur Forest Products ("Chaleur") in New Brunswick, Canada from an affiliate of the Kilmer Group.

RYAM Raises €67 million Green Capital to Invest in its Biomaterials Strategy (relevance: 34.7%, date: Nov 19, 2024)
Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc., the global leader in High Purity Cellulose, announced it has raised a €67 million in green capital.

Valmet to support SCA Obbola with further fiber line improvements (relevance: 34.4%, date: Jun 6, 2023)
Valmet will deliver two fiber line improvement projects to SCA Obbola mill in Sweden. The projects support SCA's earlier investments. The first installations will take place during the mill's spring shutdown in May 2023.

What in the world is going on? (relevance: 34.4%, date: Jun 6, 2023)
While there are reports of downtime and diminished warehouse stocks, this past month has recorded the most Capital Spending, by project size and number of projects, than Paperitalo Publications has recorded in its history. Financing costs are high, and demand is down in some key grades. These short-term issues usually drive capital decisions. At least they have for the last fifty plus years. Speculation on the reasons for this anomaly...

Wrapping up an interesting year (relevance: 34%, date: Dec 2, 2025)
The industry has a more or less interesting year every year. This one has fit into the more interesting category.

Pregis Releases 2022 Sustainability Report (relevance: 33.8%, date: Oct 17, 2023)
The reported milestones align with the Pregis Purpose to Protect, Preserve, and Inspyre and the company's commitment toward its visionary 2K30 objectives.

Huhtamaki recognized as a Climate Leader for three consecutive years (relevance: 33.3%, date: May 21, 2024)
Huhtamaki has achieved recognition as a Climate Leader in Europe, a commendation bestowed by the esteemed Financial Times. This prestigious acknowledgment is reserved for top-tier European companies with revenues exceeding €40 million, selected from a pool of nominees. The selection criteria are stringent, focusing on companies that have significantly reduced their Scope 1 and 2 emissions intensity between 2017 and 2022.

Canfor Pulp and Canfor Jointly Release 2022 Sustainability Report (relevance: 30.5%, date: Jun 6, 2023)
The full report including performance details from 13 material topics, along with separate Sustainability Highlights and Performance at a Glance documents.

Essity divests Russian operations (relevance: 30%, date: Jun 20, 2023)
Essity began work in April 2022 to exit the Russian market and in 2022 an impairment was carried out of the company's assets in Russia of approximately SEK 1.7bn.

Rayonier Advanced Materials Issues Statement Regarding Letter from Chatham Asset Management (relevance: 29.4%, date: Apr 5, 2022)
Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. issued the following statement in response to the March 17, 2022 letter from Chatham Asset Management, LLC ("Chatham") sent to the independent members of Company's Board of Directors.

Chatham Asset Management sends yet another letter to Rayonier Advanced Materials Board of Directors (relevance: 29.3%, date: Apr 5, 2022)
If you remember, Chatham also sent multiple letters to RR Donnelly.

Interfor announces 17% lumber production cut in fourth quarter (relevance: 29.2%, date: Nov 1, 2022)
Interfor announced plans to reduce its lumber production output in the fourth quarter of 2022 by approximately 200 million board feet, or 17% of quarterly capacity, as current economic conditions and market uncertainty have led to reduced lumber demand.

Stora Enso publishes its 2022 Annual Report (relevance: 29%, date: Feb 21, 2023)
Stora Enso also reports against the SASB's Sustainability Accounting Standards for Forest Management and Containers & Packaging.