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Georgia‐Pacific is building a new $135 million lumber mill east of Augusta, Ga.

PotlatchDeltic Corporation announced the successful completion of the previously announced merger of Potlatch Corporation with Deltic Timber Corporation in an all-stock transaction, creating a leading domestic timberland owner and top-tier wood products manufacturer.

Officials with the NC Department of Labor say a worker at International Paper in Riegelwood was killed after his vehicle hit a logging truck early Wednesday morning.

A forklift operator's quick thinking saved a Sofidel warehouse from going up in flames...

Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. announced that the Company plans to add two new independent directors to its Board of Directors at the upcoming 2018 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, to be held on May 21, 2018.

Unifor says it's working with paper producer Domtar Corp. to find solutions to staffing levels that have forced a temporary shutdown of its pulp mill in northern Ontario.

Suzano Pulp and Paper announced an agreement to acquire wood and land owned by Duratex in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Kimberly-Clark says it is taking Wisconsin's job tax credit proposal into consideration after announcing plans to close two facilities in the Fox Valley.

McKinley Paper Co. has put on hold plans to retool the Nippon Paper Industries USA paper plant it purchased almost a year ago for manufacturing cardboard linerboard, a company official said Monday.

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin listened on Friday afternoon to Kimberly-Clark Corp. employees facing layoffs, and the group collectively shed some tears.

Unifor says it's working with paper producer Domtar Corp. to find solutions to staffing levels that have forced a temporary shutdown of its pulp mill in northern Ontario.

Growth in demand could outstrip increase in supply for next 18 to 36 months.

Firefighters spent hours Friday morning putting out a pesky fire at a WestRock facility in Hopewell when bales that caught fire at about 5 a.m.

Officials have declined to disclose the name of the company, but Public Service Company of Oklahoma last month sold 240 acres of the site it proposed decades ago for the Black Fox nuclear power plant to Sofidel America Corp., an Italy-based company that specializes in tissue paper production, land records show.

The area is the heart of Chile's important forestry and paper industry, and the trucks and machinery used by local businesses have often been the target of arson attacks and hijackings.

Strategic investment will help Enviva meet growing demand for biomass energy, support manufacturing jobs in rural Southeast.

Fibria Celulose SA said Suzano Papel e Celulose SA representatives have contacted its controlling shareholders to discuss "alternative strategies" for the companies, according to a securities filing on Monday.

Norpac has come under fire from the U.S. publishing industry for its trade petition against Canadian papermakers.

An independent examiner is needed to probe Cenveo Inc's affairs because the printing company's board is marred by conflicts of interest and cannot be trusted to investigate events leading to its bankruptcy, according to one of its major noteholders.

Verso Corp., which last July said it had permanently shut down its No. 3 paper machine and idled 120 workers at the Androscoggin Mill in Jay, said Thursday it will upgrade the pulp line and paper machine there as it expands into new markets.

Gov. Scott Walker said Thursday "it's hard to tell" whether Kimberly-Clark Corp. will take his administration's tax deal to keep its Neenah and Fox Crossing plants open.

Australia's only manufacturer of office, printing and packaging papers is waiting on a Fair Work Commission (FWC) ruling on the month-long strike by 87 workers that has hit its envelope-making facility in Melbourne.

The management of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of the largest paper manufacturers in the world, has evinced interest to set up India's largest paper mill in Andhra Pradesh.

I was introduced to "Just-in-Time" manufacturing concepts sometime in the mid-1980s--over thirty years ago. At that time, this meant that suppliers of paper products were supposed to keep warehouses full of product made to customers' specifications and deliver it to them on a moment's notice. We kept it on our books, assumed the liability for its potential damage or loss and owned the warehouses. Some savings! In the years since then, mills have clawed back some of the costs that were transferred to them by their customers during this trend...

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Two lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed at keeping Kimberly-Clark from closing plants in the Neenah area.