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Boise Cascade Company announced that Craig Dawson and Amy Humphreys were elected to its Board of Directors (Board) following the Company's Annual Shareholders' Meeting held on May 5, 2022. In addition, Richard (Rick) Fleming retired from the Board after nine years of service.

Boise Cascade Company announced the promotion of two of its business leaders.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the appointment of six members to serve on the Softwood Lumber Board. The appointees will serve three-year terms, beginning immediately, to Dec. 31, 2024.

Of course, it is. You ask how I can write a column about this. What we don't realize is how rapidly and how important energy has become to modern societies. The following is a column I wrote for my hometown newspaper about six months ago. While not about energy, it describes a real scenario, that while current, could have easily been widespread conditions about 70 years ago in the United States. The boiler, an important object in this piece, was manufactured only about sixty years ago.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of UPM on the riverbanks in Kuusankoski, Valkeakoski and Pori. Many UPM mills have been able to reform over the course of time developing their operations to meet the needs of each era. Now they will celebrate their 150th anniversary, not only with various events, but also through everyday work.

In a recent article from CBC in Canada, it was announced that a Bill 22 Electricity Statues Amendment Act was introduced in Alberta, under Canadian legislature to allow companies to generate and store their own electricity and sell the excess back to the power grid.

These price increases are in response to inflationary cost increases in transportation, energy, labor, chemicals, maintenance, and other raw materials and continued strong demand across the Greif paperboard and converting network.

Mondi said the net asset value of its Russian operations was 687 million euros ($724.9 million) as of Dec. 31 and that it has suspended all significant capital expenditure projects in the country.

Atlas Packaging, based in Barnstaple, North Devon, is a corrugated packaging provider with a strong market presence in shelf ready packaging, gift boxing and the e-commerce sector.