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Last year, China--the world's largest importer of waste--announced it no longer wanted to take in other countries' trash so it could focus on its own pollution problems.

The driver of a 18-wheeler was injured when his tractor-trailer rolled over at the entrance to a paper mill late Tuesday morning, police said.

Two companies have expressed interest in making purchase offers for Carthage Specialty Paperboard, according to the village mayor.

All of these paper-based traditions helped make Easter a special time.

USG Boral is relocating its corporate headquarters from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore.

Local pulp mills are having trouble getting enough rail cars to get their product to market.

Greenpeace is withdrawing from the main global group for certifying sustainable wood, saying the organization it helped found more than two decades ago is failing to protect natural forests from exploitation.

John Townsend gave notice of his retirement March 20.

Valmet will supply a warp control system to Stora Enso Packaging's corrugated board plant in Ostroleka, Poland.

The industry could branch out into skyscrapers... if the U.S. allows them to be made out of wood, like Canada and other European countries do.

Universal Forest Products, Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries has signed an agreement to purchase substantially all of the operating assets of North American Container Corp. (NACC), a Marietta, Ga.-based manufacturer of structural packaging products, adding steel, corrugated and hardwood packaging to Universal's growing portfolio of industrial products.

More than 160 people are losing their jobs in June when a manufacturing plant near Hazelton shuts down.

Ireland's Smurfit Kappa rejected a raised takeover offer from International Paper on Monday, frustrating a bid to combine the largest listed U.S. paper packaging firm with Europe's biggest.

As a result of innovative thinking based on decades of competence from papermaking, BillerudKorsnäs launches its first packaging with a climate-positive impact. D-Sack®, the dissolvable sack for cement and other construction materials, disintegrates in a conventional mixer and the bio-based carbon in the paper is captured in the construction itself.

The first ever flash dryer for purely fiber delivered under the Valmet brand has been started up with fiber at Stora Enso's biocomposite plant at Hylte Mill in Sweden.

Fortress Global Enterprises Inc. announced that it has signed a share purchase agreement (the "SPA") with S2G Biochemicals Inc. ("S2G") and its shareholders, whereby the Company will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of S2G for a purchase price of $2,500,000, payable by the issuance of 666,652 common shares of the Company at a deemed price of $3.75 per Fortress Global share.

A third machine will soon be running at a previously closed Combined Locks paper mill.

Authorities are investigating following a death at the Louisiana Pacific mill in Thomasville Saturday.

International Paper Co. shares rose Monday after its sweetened 8.9 billion-euro ($11 billion) takeover bid for Smurfit Kappa Group Plc was rejected by the Irish packaging company.

USG Corp. says a $5.9 billion takeover offer from rival building products manufacturer Knauf is inadequate.

Arkansas health officials say the level of hydrogen sulfide gas near a Georgia-Pacific paper mill in southeastern Arkansas is below levels that determine if the air is safe to breathe but frequently above levels where the odor can be detected.

International Paper, the US firm that has made an €8.6bn approach to buy Irish packaging giant Smurfit Kappa, is understood to have considered a secondary stock market listing in London in order to overcome any issues Smurfit Kappa institutional shareholders may have in accepting shares in the US company as part of a takeover deal.

Södra's efforts to achieve totally fossil-free operations have generated clear results.

Huhtamaki has entered into an agreement to acquire the Indian business and related assets of Ajanta Packaging, a privately owned manufacturer of pressure sensitive labels. The business will become part of the Flexible Packaging business segment.

Lineo by Stora Enso, a renewable replacement for oil-based phenolic materials, has been awarded 'Bio-Based Product of the Year' at the Bio-Based World News Innovation Awards 2018.