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WestRock Company unveiled connected packaging solutions for smart products. These packaging solutions have been developed through a partnership between WestRock, EVRYTHNG and Digimarc.

Anthony Pratt has challenged America's most populous state to double the value of its food exports to more than $40 billion annually as his company prepares to build its first hi-tech box plant in California.

In what appears to be a sign of the times, the Maine Pulp and Paper Association has announced that it is disbanding effective immediately.

A controversial New Hampshire-based private equity firm that scrapped Millinocket's shuttered former Great Northern Paper mill has sold the site for $1 to a volunteer economic development group that will partner with the town to revitalize Millinocket's economy, officials announced Thursday.

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A fire broke-out early in the early morning hours at Quad Graphics, a commercial printing company, in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Glatfelter announced the promotion of David Dickerhoof to Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Specialty Papers, effective immediately.

Metsä Group's Wood Products Industry Metsä Wood sells its wood element business located in Pälkäne, Finland, to Lapwall Oy. The transaction is expected to be finalized by the end of January.

Verso Corporation announced that B. Christopher DiSantis will become the chief executive officer and a director of Verso effective as of February 1, 2017.

P&G announced on Wednesday additional investments in recycling and beneficial reuse that will eliminate all manufacturing waste from its global network of more than 100 production sites by 2020.

Consumers for Paper Options, a coalition advocating for access to important paper-based services and information, has expressed strong opposition to a new decision by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to suspend the mailing of Social Security Statements to workers under the age of 60.

A Florida-based demolition company has applied to raze buildings at the former Great Northern Paper Co. mill site despite a developer's interest in the facility, town officials said Monday.

According to a stock exchange release published by Ahlstrom, the EGM resolved, inter alia, to approve the combination of Ahlstrom's and Munksjö's business operations through a statutory absorption merger of Ahlstrom into Munksjö and approve the merger plan.

Stora Enso is investing EUR 12 million to build a new production line that will manufacture biocomposite granules at Hylte Mill in Sweden.

In accordance with Lecta's strategic plan, a new coating and lacquering line made by the Swiss manufacturer Polytype was recently put into operation at the Leitza mill​.

Stora Enso is investing a total of EUR 9.1 million into its consumer board mills in Imatra and Ingerois, Finland, and Fors, Sweden, to continue the commercialization of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) and to accelerate product development.

Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. face a "still very open" outcome from a European Union antitrust review of their merger, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said as the companies met with regulators to defend the deal.

Kemira announced that it will make a multi-million euro investment in the production line expansion of sizing agent (ASA) at its Nanjing site in China.

The American Forest & Paper Association announced 2017 advocacy priorities that include smarter regulations to unleash economic growth, comprehensive tax reform, efficient transportation and trade policies that advance U.S. competitiveness. The association will pursue these over the coming year to support the paper and wood product manufacturing industry's ability to create jobs and grow the economy.

BillerudKorsnäs has awarded Voith with a fully equipped XcelLine board machine. The machine with a design speed of 1.200 m/min producing liquid packaging board, carton board, food service board and white kraft liner will be one of the largest board machines of its kind.

Workers at a struggling paper mill in rural Madison, Maine, cheered in 2015 when the U.S. government slapped an import tariff on a type of magazine paper made in Canada. It wasn't enough. Months later, Madison's owners--Finland's UPM-Kymmene Inc. and a New York Times Co. subsidiary--closed the plant and laid off more than 200 workers...