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An investigation is under way into a fatal industrial accident Monday night at the Tolko mill in Kelowna.

Verso Corp. has received a tax incentive to pave the way for its move to Dayton.

Conifex Timber Inc., a Canada-based forestry and sawmilling company, will create about 120 new, full-time jobs once the Arkansas facility is reopened. The company is investing $80 million in the Union County sawmill.

Firefighters battled flames at UPM Kymene UK Ltd for more than four hours Monday night.

Cenveo plans to close its Northwest Portland facility and lay off the 91 people who work there.

SAPPI, the South African pulp and paper company with global operations, is celebrating 80 years of listing in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).

Catalyst Paper Corporation announced that the Supreme Court of British Columbia has issued its final order approving the Company's recapitalization and privatization pursuant to a plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act.

A lawyer for J.D. Irving, Limited has entered not guilty pleas to each of 15 pollution charges under the federal Fisheries Act related to alleged pollution from the pulp mill in Saint John.

Four Valmet-supplied tissue lines have been successfully started up at Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing's Chongqing mill in China within three months.

Green groups said that one of the world's biggest pulp mills which started production on Indonesia's Sumatra island last month was causing enormous environmental damage.

Prinzhorn Group's subsidiary, Hamburger Containerboard invested in Gelsenkirchen mill in Germany. With an investment of Euro 20 million the machine setup was updated significantly: besides an increase in production width to 5 m, the film press and drying section were updated to the latest standards too.

Chilean forestry and paper group CMPC will pay around $130 million to consumers as compensation for a collusion scheme to control a related market, according to media reports.

Firefighters worked for nearly 12 hours to extinguish a fire at Clearwater Paper Corp. in Shelby, N.C. that began just before 6 p.m. Saturday, 28 Jan 2017.

The Mondi Boards have approved the modernization and expansion of the Steti mill in the Czech Republic for a total investment of Euro 470 million, subject to obtaining approval for various tax incentives and necessary permitting.

"We are committed to reestablishing operations at this mill."

An electrical fire caused damage to the roof and ductwork of Soundview Paper in downtown Putney, Vermont.

Sappi sets a record: Cloquet paper mill reaches record 2 million hours without lost-time injury.

I'm only now beginning to appreciate the effect divorce has on the children involved. The parents openly dislike each other and talk about it to their friends, lawyers, and associates. The kids, who can they talk to? Who will listen to their side? To whom can they vent? Do they even know the nature of the divorce in the first place? They didn't ask for it, it was thrust upon them by people they deeply love and trusted.

Eastern Canadian lumber producer Tembec says it's open to quotas on exports to the United States, in a break from the positions of some Canadian rivals and the Quebec government.

There are a number of actions by mill owners that drive up the costs of capital projects. We'll wrap up this month by touching on these...

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LSC Communications, a spinoff of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., will close its Gallatin plant after 42 years, a move that will cut approximately 144 employees, the company announced Wednesday.

The improvements will allow it to import 50,000 to 100,000 metric tons of wood pulp per year on behalf of Suzano Pulp and Paper.

A Green Bay man must spend 6.5 years in prison for driving his pickup into two contractors near Georgia-Pacific, killing one and injuring the other.