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The Commerce Commission has given clearance to Kimberly-Clark Corporation to acquire 100% of the shares in Kenvue Inc. as part of a global transaction, subject to an undertaking to divest Kenvue's feminine hygiene business in New Zealand and Australia.

"This is an immensely difficult day for the Sunshine Coast."

Carney said his government will release more details about these retaliatory policies in the "coming days" and that the tariffs would apply to goods like steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper and electronics.

Earlier this month, the USDA Forest Service announced over $105 million in funding for a range of projects that support the forest industry.

The decision will remove approximately 380,000 metric tons of northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp from the market annually. The announcement will affect approximately 400 employees.

A storage tank ruptured and caught fire at Stora Enso's Kaukopää industrial site in Imatra, southeastern Finland, early on August 18, with around 50 cubic metres of tall oil spilling onto the site and some entering nearby Lake Saimaa.

Mercer International Inc. has disclosed "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue as a going concern over the next 12 months, citing upcoming debt maturities, an expected covenant breach and weak operating results amid challenging pulp and wood-product markets.

In addition, the new case names as defendants current CEO Robbert Rietbroek and all eight of the other sitting board members, plus one board member who retired in June.

Fulton Systems, pulp and paper industry steam and condensate system specialists, is the OEM serving North America for over 100 years, and is the mill steam and condensate recovery system provider. The Fulton Systems' steam and condensate systems are engineered to optimize the energy transfer from the boiler to the dryer, re-use the spent steam, and maximize the condensate recovery. The system design include the required controls, thermocompressors, liquid recovery tanks, condensers, pumps, final control devises, and syphons.

The distribution center will stock Sabert's broad range of molded fiber pulp, paper, and plastic food packaging solutions. This will support a wide range of customer needs.

Essity has entered into an agreement to acquire Kenvue's feminine care business in Brazil, including the market-leading brands Carefree, Sempre Livre and o.b. The purchase price amounts to USD 284m (approximately SEK 2.7bn) on a cash and debt-free basis.

Giannolo joined Sonoco in 2019 and prior to this new appointment was Vice President of Commercial for Sonoco's Consumer Packaging EMEA/APAC business.

Company starts removing wreckage of the 900,000-gallon white liquor tank and plans to install temporary tanks to restart the mill.

A union leader at Woodland Pulp in Baileyville says he lobbied four different superintendents for personal monitors that could have detected the deadly hydrogen sulfide leak that killed 20-year-old intern Kasie Malcolm and 26-year-old engineer Allen Hornberger on January 27.

The Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority has today, on August 17, 2026, approved a supplement to the Finnish language demerger and listing prospectus concerning the partial demerger of UPM-Kymmene Corporation ("UPM") and application of the shares in WISA Group Plc ("WISA") to be admitted for trading on the regulated market of Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. UPM will publish the supplement to the prospectus on behalf of WISA.

Empresas Copec has agreed to provide a capital commitment of $450 million to its forestry subsidiary Arauco. The board called an extraordinary shareholders' meeting for 10 September to approve the capital support agreement.

The Eastern Energy Alliance, Kruger Energy, and Potentia Renewables are pleased to announce the $521-M financial closing of the Saint-Paul-de-Montminy Wind Farm Project. The funding, combined with a government order authorizing the project that was secured last winter, will enable the project to move forward.

Why continuous monitoring and early intervention are reshaping fire protection in paper recycling

The man was reportedly unconscious and not breathing after being shocked by machinery at the facility.

UFP Industries, Inc. announced plans to establish a new UFP Packaging manufacturing facility in Cherokee County, South Carolina, expanding its Structural Packaging capacity and strengthening its ability to serve national industrial customers with custom, value-added packaging solutions.

90 workers will be affected by the curtailment, with operations expected to halt by September and resume in November.

The shutdown will focus on digester internal inspection and repairs, pulp machine optimization work, and recovery boiler inspection. The work will bring 475 to 500 contractors and specialized trades to the Peace River area for the duration of the outage.

Kadant Black Clawson LLC, a subsidiary of Kadant Inc. (NYSE: KAI), recently announced the successful startup of a new green liquor system at Södra's mill in Mörrum, Sweden.

Stora Enso Business Unit Oulu employs approximately 900 people across its board mill, port operations and sawmill in Oulu, and its sawmills in Veitsiluoto, Oulainen and Kalajoki. If implemented, the planned closure would only have a minor impact on the business unit's wood consumption.

The settlements resolve the State's claims in years-long litigation against E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co. (now known as EIDP, Inc.) and other DuPont-related entities, and separate litigation against 3M.