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From here on out, Fos the Rat will be writing for the month of August, just like he has for the last four years, while I take a break.

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On Tuesday, Tolko informed its Kelowna employees that it would be taking downtime between August 6 and September 15.

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Kimberly-Clark's Ingleburn Mill will close its doors for the last time at 7pm Wednesday in what has been described as "a sad day for Australian-made products".

Officials have given the all clear regarding the bomb threat at the Georgia Pacific facility west of Quanah and Loop 285 has been reopened.

This is a story of carbon choices: As societies around the world continue to move toward increased renewable energy portfolios, which energy sources do we choose?

A town councillor in Fort Frances wants the provincial government to reveal the details of an agreement the previous Liberal government struck with Resolute Forest Products.

Smurfit Kappa has developed a new e-commerce packaging solution for Enjoy Flowers, a brand of Colombian flower grower Jardines de Los Andes.

Two people were working with equipment on the roof when they were injured.

A worker was killed and seven were injured on Saturday in a gas pipeline explosion at Partex Paper Mill at Rupganj in Narayanganj.

Canfor is extending the curtailment at the Taylor pulp mill into September.

The skyrocketing cost of a U.S. college education could get even more expensive if two top college textbook companies combine as planned, especially if they succeed in starving off a scrappy competitor: used textbooks.

Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a subsidiary of diversified conglomerate Sinar Mas Group, has announced that it is stepping up efforts to fight forest and bush fires in its concession areas in anticipation of the dry season.

Australia's consumer watchdog is appealing against a Federal Court decision that found the makers of so-called flushable wipes did not mislead their customers.

Mondi said on Monday it had completed the simplification of its dual-listed structure into a single holding company after terminating arrangements between Mondi and Mondi Limited.

More than 1,000 people applied for the open positions at the Old Town mill, which was bought in October by ND Paper, a subsidiary of the Chinese company Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Ltd.

A total of five fire engines and around 20 firefighters were sent to the blaze at the Townsend Hook paper mill in Mill Street, Snodland on Wednesday.

Katarina Nilsson will take on her new position as of January 1, 2020.

Operations will be curtailed once log supply is depleted, which is expected to occur on or before August 1, 2019.

TStora Enso has signed an agreement to divest its 60% equity stake in the Dawang Mill in China, to its joint venture partner, Shandong Huatai Paper.

Some workers at Georgia-Pacific's Palatka mill took refuge Wednesday after a toxic gas leak at the facility.

The main global organization for certifying sustainable wood says one of its members destroyed tropical forests in easternmost Indonesia but it stopped short of expelling the company. The Bonn, Germany-based Forest Stewardship Council said it would impose "improvement" requirements on Korindo, a Korean-Indonesian conglomerate, that an environmental group found had cleared more than 30,000 hectares of tropical forests for palm oil plantations in Indonesia's Papua and Maluku regions.

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