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One of the largest pulp-and-paper producers in the world has launched a major wildfire prevention initiative in the wake of large-scale forest fires in its home country of Indonesia last year. And the company is turning to its British Columbia connections to do it.

A former Georgia-Pacific paper company employee who accessed computers at the company's Port Hudson plant after being fired is now awaiting sentencing following a guilty plea in federal court.

Wilmington, Del., DuPont's home since its founding in 1802, will be the base for two planned companies, one handling agricultural products and the other electronic components and biosciences. Midland, Mich., Dow's home since 1897, will retain the material-sciences company, the companies said.

Two water treatment chemicals executives have been charged in Newark, N.J., with the U.S. Department of Justice alleging they conspired to eliminate competition among suppliers of the industrial chemical to municipalities and pulp and paper companies in the United States.

The combined company retains the Weyerhaeuser name and continues to be traded under the WY ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange.

WestRock announced this week that it has introduced PerfPak® Advantage, a medication package providing a compliance solution that improves adherence.

In some cases, I have seen mills go to great lengths to negotiate strong contracts for their long-haul freight, only to ignore what was happening on their own property, perhaps because of the location of their mills. You can't do much about the location of your mill, if you happen to have arrived after the grand opening. But you might be able to do something about the shuffling of trucks, containers and rail cars about your site...

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The transaction would include technologies, patents and trademarks, as well as securing supply to customers worldwide.

Jim Thompson has frequently stated that keeping the invoice printer spinning should be a high priority for most paper company staff (consistent always with issues such as safety and compliance with the law). Having orders from customers to whom you can issue invoices is of course a pre-requisite for printing them. A recent experience, and another one 30 years ago, has made me wonder how many North American paper companies are missing the boat (actually several ships).

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Quad's versatile foldable headset is much less expensive, lighter, thinner and more flexible than more widely known units such as Google Cardboard, the company said.

Work on the project will begin in spring 2016 and is scheduled for completion in November 2017.

Valmet will supply a paper machine wet end rebuild for the Kirkniemi mill of Sappi Finland Operations Oy in Finland. The start-up of the rebuilt machine is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016.

An investigation is under way after a person was hurt at an International Paper facility.

WG Anderson is a premier folding carton manufacturer with a focus on store branded food and consumer product markets.

Glens Falls firefighters were called to Finch Paper Friday for a fire in a paper machine.

Shareholders of Weyerhaeuser and Plum Creek Timber approved their planned merger, both companies have announced.

SCA has held a groundbreaking ceremony for a $922 million project to expand its Östrand bleached kraft pulp mill in Sweden.

AkzoNobel has confirmed that it is in discussions with BASF with regards a potential purchase of their Industrial Coatings business.

Metro Paper Industries confirmed it will stop production at its New York facility on 26 Feb. 2016, laying off 20 full-time employees.