Recent Articles

Timo Riikonen has been appointed CFO and a member of management team of Metsä Wood as of 1 February 2018.

American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Donna Harman praised House and Senate passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Conference Report.

Chilean forestry company Arauco, a subsidiary of industrial conglomerate Empresas Copec SA, will buy $245 million of assets in Mexico from rival Grupo Masisa SA, Arauco said in a statement on Tuesday.

About 1,000 former workers of a Maine paper mill company have started receiving checks in a 15-year-old bankruptcy case.

Nippon Paper Papylia has obtained ISO 22000 certification, an international standard for food safety management systems, at the Kochi Mill in Japan, which produces high value-added specialty paper.

Around 170 guests attended the official inauguration of the new polyethylene (PE) coating plant at the consumer board mill in Beihai, China.

Domtar Corp. and others this week handed out some early Christmas presents to local teachers and students in the form of 40,000 books. And the teachers seemed to really appreciate it.

The board of the parent company for Norway's long-troubled forestry firm Norske Skog finally bowed to the chopping block on Tuesday.

H.S. "Doug" Dugal is being remembered this week as a respected leader in the paper industry whose warmth and generosity of spirit extended to all those lucky enough to cross his path.

New Hampshire author Jamie Sayen wrote the recently released You Had a Job for Life: Story of a Company Town about the paper industry in Groveton, N.H.

As companies strive to move their customers towards digital communication, we examine whether this business decision is the right one for the consumer.

More than 40 Resolute Forest Products employees are hoping they'll be back to work soon after a contractor they were working with ceased operations.

Sappi Limited, the South African based leading global supplier of dissolving wood pulp (DWP), speciality and packaging papers, printing (graphic) papers and biomaterials has confirmed plans and ongoing projects to significantly increase DWP capacity by 2020.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation signed an agreement earlier this year with EDF RE for 120 MW of generation which marks Kimberly-Clark's first utility scale use of renewable energy.

Södra and Statkraft have made a decision to invest in a new demo facility for fossil-free fuel.

Sappi Limited, the South African based leading global supplier of dissolving wood pulp (DWP), speciality and packaging papers, printing (graphic) papers and biomaterials has confirmed plans and ongoing projects to significantly increase DWP capacity by 2020.

The Management Board and Supervisory Board of Arctic Paper S.A. have adopted a decision to launch an investment project at Arctic Paper Kostrzyn with the aim of expanding the capacity at the mill.

A federal judge took no action Wednesday on a De Pere businessman's motion to adjourn his sentencing on bank fraud.

WestRock has announced permanent layoffs at its facility in Kimball, Tennessee.

Kimberly-Clark Corp., the leading global tissue maker, will try to persuade a federal judge to block the District of Columbia from implementing the nation's first-ever law regulating flushable wipes.

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with the Singapore Environment Council (SEC) to commence with a pilot audit of one of its supplier concessions, an event that marks the commencement of the assessment process for the enhanced Singapore Green Labelling Scheme (SGLS) certification.

The International Energy Agency released a report in June 2017, "Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2017." Regardless of your political views on energy (and remember: old Jim says everything about energy is political), it is worthwhile to read material such as this. It reflects the viewpoint the general public will adopt and hence, the direction our industry must go in the future if we are to avoid pickets, boycotts and other unpleasant actions. Here are the "Key Messages" in the report...

MoistTech Corp™ and Belgium based company Weighing & Inspection have announced a strategic partnership to provide advanced moisture measurement capabilities for manufactured materials to customers in the Benelux region.

Norske Skog group's seven paper mills will continue as normal, and its customers, suppliers and other business partners will continue to receive high quality products and services from Norske Skog without interruption throughout the competitive sale process, the company said.