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WestRock Company has named James Armstrong vice president - Investor Relations.

FuturaGene, a wholly owned subsidiary of Suzano Pulp and Paper, and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), announces that a patent has been issued in Brazil to CSIRO, which covers the downregulation of the expression of plant target genes or other target genes, including genes of insect pests and disease agents.

The new Voith XcelLine tissue machine TM 12 was successfully started up at Guangdong Lee & Man, taking only 28 minutes from "stock on wire" to "paper on reel."

Verso Corp. revealed that its Strategic Alternatives Committee is looking at the possibility of selling the entire company outright, or merging with another.

A fleet of fire engines rushed to a Mold Business Park on Tuesday following reports of a blaze inside a Smurfit Kappa facility.

European Commission regulators have raided publisher Euromoney's newly-acquired specialist unit covering the paper industry as part of an investigation into the kraft paper and industrial paper sack sector. Euromoney confirmed the "inspection" by antitrust authorities at the Brussels office of RISI...

Valmet will supply an OptiConcept M board production line with automation for Pratt Paper, LLC for Pratt's new greenfield paper mill in Wapakoneta, Ohio.

Nippon Paper Industries announces that its consolidated subsidiary, Kitakami Paper, has decided at the meeting of the Board of Directors held that it will withdraw from all of its businesses on July 31, 2018.

"We are stunned that a single U.S. mill in Longview, Washington, has been able to manipulate the trade laws to their gain, while potentially wreaking financial havoc on newspapers and other commercial publishers across the country," said the News Media Alliance, which represents more than 2,000 U.S. news organizations, in a statement Wednesday.

UPM Raflatac has opened a new labelstock slitting and distribution terminal in Santiago, Chile.

A bylaw banning plastic bags has been adopted in Victoria, the first local government to do so in British Columbia.

McDonald's will stop using plastic foam cups, which keep drinks icy cold but make environmentalists red hot, by the end of this year.

Leaders in the newspaper industry have pledged to fight new tariffs on the paper that they use to print their publications.

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. has obtained the highest rating in the DBJ Environmental Rating from the Development Bank of Japan Inc., and has received a loan based on the relevant program.

The Chilean folding boxboard maker Cartulinas CMPC S.A has bought two PulpEye online analyser systems to its mill in Maule. One system will be installed in the BTMP pulp mill and the other in the board mill's stock preparation.

VPK Packaging Group plans to invest in a new paper machine for light weight recycled containerboard to strengthen its sustainable resource management.

Expera Specialty Solutions has introduced a new product brand, Resin-Gard™, that represents its advanced line of saturating papers engineered to achieve uniform saturant (resin or latex) pickup required by manufacturers to meet finished product performance requirements.

UPM Biofuels has received a sustainability certificate for the cultivation of the Brassica carinata crop - a new feedstock for biofuel production - in Uruguay.

UPM has been recognized as a Water Efficiency Frontrunner in Jiangsu Province and China at large.

Sun Chemical has launched a new UV offset ink that was developed to make sophisticated graphics look stunning and vibrant on high-end luxury folding cartons while at the same time providing the longer-term shelf appeal brand owners require.

Graphic Packaging International, LLC has announced the appointment of Spencer Maurer to Senior Vice President, Americas Foodservice, the business unit created from the combination with International Paper's Consumer Packaging business.