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Harry Merlo, the former long-timer chief executive officer of Louisiana-Pacific Corp., died Oct. 24. He was 91.

Firefighters responded to a fire Sunday night at the Pratt Industries paper mill in New York.

A small fire at Finch Paper Co. damaged a conveyor belt on Saturday night.

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On 27 Oct 2016, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point students pulled off an excellent exercise in capturing formation characteristics with an iPhone.

Robert C. Williams, co-founder of the James River Corporation, passed away this week at the age of 86.

An ongoing foul odor in the area of the new Pratt Industries recycled paper mill has reportedly been attracting the objections of nearby residents.

Quad/Graphics Inc. said Thursday it is spending millions of dollars on new equipment at its Dallas printing plant and is expanding employment there.

Norbord Inc. and Louisiana-Pacific Corp. have agreed to exchange ownership of two wood panel mills in Quebec. Financial terms weren't disclosed.

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Time and again, I have seen people conduct themselves in an exemplary manner throughout their careers, only to find themselves departing their places of employment in an untimely fashion. Once I went to work in a paper mill where this had happened en masse just before I arrived. The place was a mess. Whole departments had been eliminated and it looked as if the people had just left for a fire drill...

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Kruger Products L.P. announced it is investing $55 million to add a paper machine at its Crabtree facility, in the Lanaudière region. The project will increase the facility's overall production by approximately 20,000 metric tonnes annually and will help to consolidate approximately 600 jobs.

Catalyst Paper says it is now considering its options if the deal to sell the company to the Indian-based Kejriwal Group International falls through.

Arauco announced that it has received all required official approvals to build its new particleboard plant located in Grayling, Michigan.

Sofidel has launched its away-from-home paper brand, Papernet, to the U.S. market.

Cascades has introduced its new brand identity within its Tissue Group division, Cascades Pro™, the culmination of a major brand transformation for the former Away-From-Home division.

Suzano Papel & Celulose SA, Brazil's second biggest pulp producer, has agreed to pay $259 million for land and a small hydropower dam as part of an effort to secure supply of cellulose at lower costs for a key mill in the country.

A pair of fire departments responded to a report of a gas leak near Domtar in Rothschild, Wisconsin on Tuesday.

Maine paper makers will get more than half of a new $3 million fund to give special energy cost rebates to large Maine manufacturers connected to the New England power grid.

DuPont Co.'s merger with Dow Chemical Co. now appears likely to complete in the first quarter of 2017, later than initially hoped, as antitrust authorities scrutinize a spate of agricultural deals, DuPont's top executive said.

Charcoal from paper mill sludge that once polluted the ocean here southwest of Tokyo could be used to restore contaminated land near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

Oji Holdings will begin mass production next year of a lightweight plant-derived material that can replace carbon fiber in many applications.