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Verso stockholders approved the sale of two mills as part of a $400 million deal during an annual meeting of shareholders last week.

A firefighter who was taken to the hospital while battling an explosion at the Arauco plant in Crawford County is expected to be released from the hospital.

A North Jersey paper mill is operating again, a year after a massive fire destroyed most of it.

Northern Pulp got the province's official blessing to continue using Boat Harbour for another three months.

A serious workplace accident occurred at Valmet's site in Ovar, Portugal, on Friday, January 31, 2020. The accident caused fatal injuries to a Valmet employee. Valmet has initiated an incident investigation, in co-operation with the authorities.

WestRock Company announced that Suzan F. Harrison, former president of Global Oral Care for Colgate-Palmolive Company, has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors.

Arauco announced that it will be closing its particleboard line in Moncure, N.C., as of April 2020. Arauco's Moncure medium density fiberboard (MDF) line will be integrated with a moulding line to create an advanced MDF millwork operation.

Metsä Fibre has completed preparatory work of the Kemi bioproduct mill at the mill site as planned by the end of January 2020.

Valmet will deliver cooking and fiberline to Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd. (TNPL) for their unit 2, located in Mondipatti in the Trichy District, India.

Major Japanese paper packaging material producer Rengo Co. will acquire a 25 percent stake in a leading containerboard material maker in the Philippines to tap growing local demand.

Conifex Timber Inc. announced that it has closed its previously announced transaction with an affiliate of Resolute Forest Products Inc. for the sale of its US sawmill business, consisting of its El Dorado, Cross City and Glenwood sawmills and related operations.

The American Forest Foundation (AFF) announced that the Domtar Corporation has joined AFF and its partner, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), in supporting the newly-created Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCP) to enhance carbon sequestration in family owned forest land across the U.S.

The Forest Practices Board reported that an audit of Tolko Industries Ltd.'s forest practices on forest licenses A18696, A18697 and A74911 in the Cascades Natural Resource District has found general compliance with British Columbia's forestry legislation.

Lecta announces a price increase of thermal papers for new orders. The increase will be around 8 to 10% in thermal papers depending on country.

Paper manufacturers should be paying close attention to this subject.

Sonoco Products Co. said Monday that Chief Executive Robert Tiede has retired, after about 21 months in the role, and about 16 years with the company.

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Verso Corporation and Lapetus Capital II LLC (together with its affiliates, including Atlas Holdings LLC, "Atlas") and Blue Wolf Capital Advisors IV, LLC ("Blue Wolf") and their respective affiliates, announced that they have reached an agreement to settle the pending proxy contest with respect to the Company's 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting") and certain other matters.

An explosion is being investigated at ARAUCO in Crawford County.

An ex-accounting manager who worked at Weyerhaeuser's Springfield office has pleaded guilty to mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and tax evasion after stealing more than $4.5 million from the timber company by contracting with bogus vendors, including one in her mother's name.

Cascades, a leader in eco-friendly recovery, hygiene and packaging solutions, is delighted to receive a DUX Grand Prix Award for its latest food packaging innovation: a 100% recycled and recyclable cardboard tray.

The Board will now initiate a recruitment process for a new President and CEO.

The proposed merger, which was announced in May 2019, had been set to expire on Feb. 1.

UPM takes the next transformative growth step and enters the biochemicals business by investing in a biorefinery at Leuna, Germany.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation announced that Russ Torres has been named President, Kimberly-Clark Professional, effective March 9, 2020.