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I belong to a couple of old car groups on Facebook. Every week or so, some folks get into mild arguments concerning the quality of automobiles. The argument always goes the same--the cars of the '50's and '60's were much better than the cars of today. Are you kidding me? The cars of today are fantastic and, for all their gee-whiz features, cheap. A $3,500 car in 1965 would cost nearly $29,000 today. For that kind of money today you can get a car with better safety protection, air conditioning, lane control assist and so forth. I know, because I bought one for that kind of money last year. Same with paper. The paper, any grade, of 50 years ago was nothing compared to the paper of today. On a constant cost basis, today's paper is very, very inexpensive...

Through its innovative two-phased "Now and Next" approach, DS Smith will continue to focus on the transition to a circular economy by partnering with customers, communities, governments and influencers to keep materials in use, design out waste and regenerate natural systems.

UPM Raflatac's Forest Film™ label material has received the 2020 Innovation in Responsible Sourcing Award from the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC). The announcement came on Wednesday, September 30, at the SPC Innovator Awards ceremony as part of this year's SPC Advance virtual event.

LSC Communications, Inc. announced that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the "Court") has approved its previously announced stock and asset purchase agreement, under which an affiliate of Atlas Holdings LLC ("Atlas"") with the support of certain of LSC's secured creditors (the "Creditor Group"), will acquire substantially all of the Company's assets.

An agreement for the acquisition of a controlling stake in Burgo Group S.p.A. ("Burgo") in partnership with the Marchi family has been reached.

The Verso pulp and paper mill has been idled since July 31 as Verso seeks a buyer.

Verso Corporation announced that Adam St. John has resigned as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors, effective as of September 30, 2020. The Verso Board of Directors has named Randy J. Nebel, a current member of the Board, as interim President and Chief Executive Officer.

Metsä Fibre Oy and AFRY have entered into a preliminary agreement for the engineering, project management and site services of the chlorine dioxide plant at the Kemi bioproduct mill in Finland.

Stora Enso has selected UMV as the supplier of an offline coating section to be installed at their Forshaga site in Sweden.