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Smurfit Kappa's expansion ambitions in the US are coming under increasing scrutiny by investors amid mounting speculation the Dublin-based company acted as a rival suitor to a US-based packaging firm, WestRock, in its successful $3.5bn (€2.8bn) bid for KapStone Paper.

Company on track to emerge from Chapter 11 in Late Q2

Fire crews were called early Friday, 30 March, to a Rothschild paper mill after a forklift caught fire.

Employees of the Florence, Alabama Sonoco Products Co. facility have been notified the plant will close by the end of May, officials said.

A new project has been proposed for the site near Richmond previously intended for a Chinese company's paper manufacturing facility that never materialized.

China's Shanying Paper will take a majority stake in a new Finnish company Boreal Bioref, securing financing for a planned 950 million euro pulp mill project in northern Finland, Boreal said on Friday.

PCA has begun construction of its new full-line corrugated facility in Marshfield, Wisconsin. The new facility is scheduled for completion later this year.

Six laborers died of suffocation after inhaling poisonous gas as they went down a tank of a paper mill to clean it.

Some Georgia-Pacific workers in Taylorsville, Mississippi, are on strike over scheduling issues after nearly a year of negotiating.

Sonoco announced the start of Robert C. Tiede's tenure as the new President and CEO of Sonoco. Tiede replaces the retiring Jack Sanders, who served as President and CEO since 2013.

Rengo resolved to subscribe for the issuance of 2,150,000 new shares by third party allotment in Toppan Containers Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., and to acquire 340,000 common shares from Toppan Printing to make Toppan Containers a subsidiary of Rengo.

LSC Communications has signed a multi-year publisher services agreement with America's Test Kitchen (ATK) to provide print, sourcing, distribution and postal optimization solutions for ATK's media entities including cookbooks and magazines.

Needs to add capacity in coming years to meet demand growth.

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Kimberly-Clark Corp. remains noncommittal concerning state lawmakers' efforts to avoid its two plant closures in the Fox Cities.

Recently, our leader Jim Thompson wrote about gun control vs. abortion. I'm going to piggy back on that debate from a different angle: Today's communication.

Nippon Paper Industries held a completion ceremony for the biomass mixed combustion power generation facility at Ishinomaki Hibarino Power Plant, operated by Nippon Paper Ishinomaki Energy Center Ltd., which had been engaged in unit trial operations since September 2017.

Valmet will supply a multifuel power boiler and auxiliary process equipment to Kipas Holding's greenfield paper mill in Söke, Aydin, Turkey.

The mandate has been designed to address the growing crisis in water and sanitation in many parts of the world by implementing a range of strategies and policies.

Yes, it is Safety Month here at Paperitalo Publications and time to emphasize this topic once again. We emphasize it every week at the end of this column, but this month we have the opportunity to dive a little deeper.

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International Paper Co. isn't likely to back down in its play for Irish packaging manufacturer Smurfit Kappa Group Plc and could go hostile, according to two analysts tracking the industry.