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Amcor Limited and Bemis Company, Inc. have made significant progress towards closing the all-stock transaction announced on 6 August 2018.

Judge dismisses RICO suit against environmental groups, but allows defamation suit to be heard.

Ron Van Den Heuvel on Wednesday was sentenced to 90 months in prison for defrauding investors out of $9.4 million.

WestRock Company announced that it has been named to FORTUNE magazine's annual list of World's Most Admired Companies for the fourth consecutive year.

USG Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Jennifer F. Scanlon announced that she intends to leave USG upon, and subject to, the completion of the pending merger with Gebr. Knauf KG ("Knauf").

International Paper announced that it has been named again by FORTUNE magazine as one of the "Worlds Most Admired Companies."

A waste paper sorting plant for the production of newsprint is being built alongside the Palm Paper plant in King's Lynn, UK.

LCS Communications is closing its Lynchburg plant this summer, affecting 369 workers, Mayor Treney Tweedy told City Council members during a work session Tuesday afternoon.

Domtar Corporation has announced two well-qualified leaders to manage its Kingsport, Tennessee and Nekoosa, Wisconsin, mills.

Smurfit Kappa has launched a new high speed, triple head, automatic filling machine. The new machine is capable of filling up to 45 3L Bag-in-Box® containers per minute on its three state-of-the-art filling valves.

A waste paper sorting plant for the production of newsprint is being built alongside the Palm Paper plant in King's Lynn, UK.

Cities suing Kimberly-Clark Corp over damage to their sewer systems from toilet wipes they say were falsely advertised as "flushable" will gain access to previously withheld internal company documents, a judge decided on Thursday.

Mayr-Melnhof Packaging says it has closed the acquisition of TANN Group.

Spicers has reportedly entered into a scheme of arrangement with Japan's Kokusai Pulp and Paper to be taken over for around $148 million.

Repap Resources Group, an unincorporated private six-member investment group, has had preliminary discussions with Resolute Forest Products about its proposed purchase of the idled pulp and paper mill in Fort Frances.

DS Smith PLC on Thursday said it had received acceptances for 98.8% of the total share capital of Papeles y Cartones de Europa, SA, known as Europac, satisfying the final condition of the acquisition.

International Paper will host a three day hiring event/job fair starting on January 31, 2019 in Baton Rouge, LA.

A woman is injured following an accident outside a Lexington International Paper facility of Friday morning.

On January 16, 2019, Jim Thompson gave his career lessons talk to a class of new Pratt employees training for the upcoming startup up of the mill in Wapakoneta, Ohio, planned for later this year. Covering subjects from "The 3 Freshman Years" to "Final Exit" Thompson shared career experiences from forty-nine years in industry.

Södra welcomes Clerk, the company's first digital robot employee. Clerk is a software robot that works in six departments and uses its expertise in everyday, repetitive and time-consuming tasks.

I have been amazed at the inexperienced personnel that have, on occasion, been allowed to manage capital projects. Such selections, as I have seen them, have usually been made by senior managers who rose through the production ranks and who give little thought to what it might take to manage a capital project, even one of a very modest size.

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With the political chaos of Brexit filling their column inches, British newspapers are now having to ensure the country's drive to leave the European Union doesn't leave them without enough paper and ink.