Leading Stories

West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. says it is withdrawing its production outlook for the year due to the uncertain impact of measures to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

San Group has purchased another mill in Port Alberni, Canada. The Surrey-based forestry group bought the former Chalwood Forest Products mill on Hector Road, and is already operating while they clean up the site.

IT Tech Packaging, Inc. announced that it launched its production line of non-medical single-use face masks as planned, following completion of raw materials preparation, trial run of the equipment and the sample products inspection.

This product embodies Sappi's forward-looking sustainability practices to align with global goals for environmentally-friendly manufacturing.

Domtar is temporarily laying off 60 employees at their mill in Rothschild for the next twelve weeks. The mill has around 400 employees, meaning just under one in seven people are affected.

With a top score of 82/100 Metsä Board is among the highest 1% of companies assessed in the in the manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard and containers of paper and paperboard industries.

The business includes the coater and related equipment located at Appvion's West Carrollton, Ohio, facility as well as a license for all corresponding intellectual property. With this acquisition, Domtar will become a large-scale, integrated producer of POS paper.

The Shareholders Foundation, Inc. announces that a lawsuit is pending for certain investors in NYSE: QUAD shares.

Domtar plans to temporarily idle the operations of its Hawesville, Kentucky, mill beginning May 5th 2020. The company expects to restart the H1 paper machine in June 2020, while the H2 paper machine will remain idled until July 2020.

A fire in a pit at Pratt Industries Paper Mills in Staten Island on Sunday night prompted an "all hands" response from the FDNY, a spokesman for the department said.

A total of five employees at Georgia Pacific in Madison have tested positive for COVID-19, the highly contagious and potentially lethal coronavirus ravaging the globe.

Two of the mill's three paper machines restarted last week but pulp is being provided from other mills for the time being, hurting the loggers and truckers who provided the raw material that's transformed into paper.

North Strabane firefighters responded Tuesday morning, 22 April, to an International Paper facility for a roof-top incinerator that had caught fire.

Paperitalo Publications did a follow-up survey regarding the coronavirus and how it's affecting the pulp and paper industry. Here are the results...

On April 22, 2020, the Pixelle Specialty Solutions mill in Jay, ME restarted two of its paper machines. The A4 and A5 machines are now running 24x7 and customer service and sales personnel are taking orders from customers.

Arauco will close its medium density fiberboard (MDF) production facility in Bennettsville, South Carolina May 18.

If you are looking for goods and services in the pulp and paper industry, you need to check out the Paperitalo Directory!

The UPM Blandin paper mill is the latest long-standing business in northeastern Minnesota to close due to the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic.

Graphic Packaging has revealed plans to close White Pigeon, Michigan coated recycled board (CRB) mill and PM1 containerboard machine in West Monroe, Louisiana.

The acquisition was finalized April 17, and New-Indy will begin operations immediately.

Workers at Sappi's Cloquet paper mill will return to work Thursday following a one-week layoff as the mill prepares for a three-week outage.

Current global conditions and recent events impacting Paper Excellence require us to extend the curtailment of paper operations at Powell River and Crofton.

No one was injured after a fire broke out early Friday at Domtar paper mill in Rothschild, Wisconsin.

A Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman praised several Androscoggin Mill workers Friday for actions that he said limited the environmental damage done by an explosion there earlier this week.

The Graphic Packaging Management Team in Kenton was notified this past Saturday April 11, that a production employee tested positive for COVID-19.