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International Paper announced that the company signed an agreement to acquire Envases Grau, a family-owned packaging business in Spain, for an undisclosed amount.

The judgment will reduce Essity's tax expense by approximately SEK 1.1bn in the fourth quarter of 2018.

As designs continue to evolve, energy costs will continue to decline, regardless of their root costs. We don't have to do anything emotional or nonsensical about energy costs, just continue to think of better and more efficient ways to do things with less energy...

Neenah, Inc. announced a new strategic distribution partnership with Sona Commercial LLC to distribute its products in the Middle East, Africa and Indian subcontinent.

Fort Mill police and a town manufacturer are investigating a fraud case after $119,000 sent to a Kentucky trucking company never made it there.

In New Zealand, Knauf is active in the importation and supply of products used for modular suspended ceilings and insulation.

Metsä Tissue will unify its mill and technology operations, and a new position of Senior Vice President, Operations has been established in the management team.

Domtar is taking the lead in educating the next generation of paper industry professionals about our supply chain, paper production, sustainably forestry initiatives and more.

Valmet to supply a new brown stock washing and screening line to Sappi Saiccor mill in South Africa

Andritz has received an order from the Swedish energy company Vattenfall AB to deliver a new biomass boiler plant with an external biomass handling system for their "Carpe Futurum" project.

Andritz has received an order from Holmen's Iggesund Paperboard to supply fiberline process technology and equipment to their Iggesund mill, Sweden. Start-up is scheduled for late 2019.

Stora Enso and the Forest Stewardship Council®(FSC) have announced a new partnership agreement that aims to increase FSC certification, especially among small- and medium-sized private forest owners in the Nordics, Baltics, and across Europe. The aim is to increase the FSC certified wood supply.

Crews responded to a sprinkler system activation around 7:05 a.m. Thursday in the WestRock facility. A small fire was in the air handling equipment on the roof.

PotlatchDeltic Corporation announced an agreement to sell its El Dorado Medium Density Fiberboard business to Roseburg Forest Products for a purchase price of approximately $92 million

Papertech Inc. has entered into an agreement with Billerud Korsnäs, Gävle mill to supply an additional 28WebVision® WMS high-definition GigE® digital cameras to PM5 to complete a 36-camera all-digital system.

As a result of the negotiations, Stora Enso can, if needed, temporarily lay off employees at Oulu Mill, excluding the personnel at the pulp mill, for a maximum of 90 days during the first half of 2019.

Until about 1712, humankind depended largely on human and animal exertion for work. There was the occasional water-power dam and, in parts of the world, windmills, but these were specifically location- dependent. Thomas Newcomen freed work from location and muscle, with the invention of his atmospheric steam engine around 1712. There had been precursors to this invention, but Newcomen is credited with the first practical design. This was only 300 years ago, a mere dash in time when compared to all of human history...

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Greif Inc. is acquiring a recycled paperboard and packaging based outside Atlanta in a $1.8 billion deal announced Thursday.

International Paper is once again planning a major re-investment in its Coosa linerboard mill, to the tune of up to $150 million.

Van Den Heuvel is awaiting sentencing in federal court for fraudulently soliciting loans and investments to pursue his business, Green Box, which he represented as a plan to buy equipment for converting solid waste into consumer products and energy.

Metsä Tissue, part of Metsä Group, sets the Stotzheim mill in Germany under a strategic review due to the low performance in the napkin business.

Valmet and Arauco have finalized the contract to deliver pulp drying and baling, recovery boiler and biomass boiler for Arauco's MAPA project.