Operations News

Meadow Lake Mechanical Pulp Inc., which employs 190 people and infuses over $1 million daily into Canada's economy, is dependent on CN Rail, which has failed to transport Meadow Lake's pulp production to ports for months. The mill has exhausted local storage facilities.

Rengo Co., Ltd. will open the Yashio Second Logistics Center, a logistics center for containerboard in the Kanto region, Japan. Start of operations of 30,563 m² warehouse scheduled on April 2022.

Sonoco, one of the largest global sustainable packaging companies, announced that two members of the Company's Board of Directors will be leaving.

Catalyst Paper's Tis'kwat mill has begun its indefinite curtailment in earnest, with many workers putting in their final day at the mill on February 4.

International Paper (IP), one of the world's leading producers of renewable fiber-based packaging and absorbent pulp solutions, achieved a major production milestone at its Madrid Mill in Fuenlabrada, Spain. In the last quarter of 2021, the state-of-the-art mill reached a total production volume of one million tonnes of sustainably made high-performance light-weight recycled containerboard since the completion of the conversion investment in August 2018.

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Sinar Mas has confirmed that there has been a tiger attack in the concession area of one of its subsidiaries, PT. Satria Perkasa Agung (SPA), resulting in a fatality to an employee of a contractor on February 5, 2022.

At least two workers were killed and another 15 sustained burns after a major fire broke out in Kasur's Bulleh Shah Paper Mills on Wednesday, Feb. 9.

No one was hurt in a fire at the Port Townsend Paper Mill on Saturday afternoon, 22 January 2022.

Crews were called to a fire at Neenah Paper in the town of Brownville early Friday morning, 21 Jan 2022.

The Finnish Paperworkers' Union has issued a new strike announcement to UPM, declaring that their strike at UPM's Finnish mills will be extended by two weeks until 19 February 2022, unless new agreements are reached before that. The Paperworkers' Union's strike at UPM Pulp, UPM Biofuels, UPM Communication Papers, UPM Specialty Papers and UPM Raflatac units in Finland started 1 January 2022.

Four fire departments responded to a fire at the ND Paper mill Tuesday morning, Jan. 18.

The cause of the fire is under investigation. There were no injuries and the fire did not cause any business interruption to the paper mill.

A teenager was arrested on suspicion of arson after a huge fire broke out in Frogmore Paper Mill in Apsley on Saturday afternoon.

At this point, UPM does not disclose estimates of the economic impacts of the strikes or the blockade.

Boise Cascade Company announced the expansion of its Building Materials Distribution (BMD) operations in Minnesota and Northern Kentucky.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company announced that Maggie Bidlingmaier will join Graphic Packaging as EVP and President of the Americas business unit.

IT Tech Packaging, Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of diversified paper products in North China, released a letter to shareholders from the Chairman of the Company's board of directors.

A fire that started inside a mixing tank Friday morning, Dec. 31, at Georgia Pacific Chemicals in Taylorsville was quickly brought under control.

Officials have recovered a body that was reported in a retention pond at Georgia-Pacific's facility in Brunswick.

A person has died following a medical incident at the Oji Fibre Solutions Kinleith Mill.

The Finnish Paperworkers' Union has issued a new strike announcement to UPM, declaring that their strike at UPM's Finnish mills will be extended by two weeks until 5 February 2022, unless new agreements are reached before that. The Paperworkers' Union's strike at UPM Pulp, UPM Biofuels, UPM Communication Papers, UPM Specialty Papers and UPM Raflatac units in Finland started 1 January 2022.

Shortly before the holidays, the group of warehousers at the packaging giant voted unanimously to ratify a new three-year contract. The agreement brings wage increases of $1/hr in the first year, maintains health and welfare benefits, and strengthens retirement security with the new Retirees Plus XL plan.

Emergency crews responded to a small electrical fire inside the Georgia Pacific Dixie facility in Fort Smith Tuesday, Dec. 28, evening.

In 2022, the International Paper mill in Cantonment will switch natural gas suppliers to Pensacola Energy, significantly increasing revenue for the municipal utility while saving money for IP.

Timi Hyppänen is appointed Senior Vice President, Supply Chain of Metsä Fibre, and a member of the company's Management Team as of 1 January 2022. In his new role, Hyppänen will report to Metsä Fibre's CEO Ismo Nousiainen.