Leading Stories

This latest Euro 15 million investment in Saint-Séverin underscores Ahlstrom's enduring commitment to sustainable innovation.

The engineering firm is cutting 325 jobs in Finland, and placing more than 1,000 other employees on unpaid leave. Valmet has not yet said where the cuts will take place, but the Jyväskylä region could bear the brunt of the reductions.

At the end of March, Rottneros announced a reduction corresponding to 47 positions. The notice applied to both Rottneros Mill and Group functions.

Sofidel raised acquisition bid from $126 million to $180 million; Kimberly-Clark named back-up bidder for Royal Paper assets

A packaging and labeling company in southwestern Wisconsin is preparing to shut down one of its facilities, citing shifting business conditions and resulting in layoffs affecting dozens of workers.

Smurfit Westrock--the packaging company formed through the merger of Ireland's Smurfit Kappa and U.S.-based Westrock--has approved a $150 million (about R$840 million) investment to expand and modernize its operations in Brazil. The investment, already cleared by the board, is expected to be implemented over a period of 18 to 22 months.

When a recruiter approached Andy Silvernail about joining International Paper to turn around the 127-year-old company, he initially said no.

Kadant Black Clawson LLC, a subsidiary of Kadant Inc., successfully started up a new lightweight recycled containerboard line at Cascades' Bear Island facility in Ashland, Virginia.

Kimberly-Clark expects that its common stock will cease trading on the NYSE at market close on Thursday, May 29, 2025, and will commence trading on Nasdaq on Friday, May 30, 2025.

The partnership with Suzano, one of the ten largest consumers of natural gas in Brazil and one of the main customers in this segment, marks the beginning of Petrobras' operations in the free market in the state.

Under the deal, J&F will repurchase Paper Excellence's 49% stake in pulp producer Eldorado Celulose for approximately $2.7 billion (R$15.2 billion).

Weyerhaeuser Distribution announced a partnership with Nichiha USA that will make Nichiha's full portfolio of siding and trim products available in Texas through its distribution centers in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

Two-Day Online Auction Scheduled for June 4-5, 2025, Featuring Extensive Paper Production Equipment from a 135-Year-Old Facility

"Most of our customers that export, especially to the U.S., really don't know what the price of their goods is going to be," said Cristian Infante, who heads Copec's forestry arm Arauco, in a presentation. "So they're trying to buy as little as possible."

Smurfit Westrock says it intends to prepare its closing St. Paul paper recycling facility site for sale and redevelopment "as soon as possible" following a planned closure this summer.

Employees at the Cedar Springs Containerboard mill in Georgia were told today (May 14) that Georgia-Pacific plans to permanently close the operation later this year. Most positions will be eliminated by August 1, 2025. All jobs at the Cedar Springs mill will eventually be impacted.

The settlement, which the company said is not an admission of liability, stems from a 2019 lawsuit, in which New Jersey officials sued chemical makers DuPont, Chemours and 3M to pay for the clean-up of years of contamination caused by toxic chemicals commonly known as PFAS.

The estimate of the final number of redundancies is 7 employees.

Operations generated $2.8bn in 2024 in three countries with eight mills and two conversion facilities.

Operations generated $2.8bn in 2024 in three countries with eight mills and two conversion facilities.

Metsä Group and Amcor, a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging solutions, announced a strategic collaboration to develop three-dimensional moulded fibre packaging solutions with lidding and liner for a variety of food applications.

The Vernon-based forest company said in an email they expect the downtime to begin as early as May 12 at the Armstrong plant and May 15 at White Valley.

Essity's Board of Directors has today appointed Ulrika Kolsrud as President and CEO. Ulrika Kolsrud will assume her position on June 1, 2025. Currently, she holds the position as President of Essity's business unit Health & Medical. She succeeds Magnus Groth, who earlier this year informed the Board that he will leave his position during the year.

As part of its strategic growth initiative, and commitment to the Rio Grande Valley, the company will make strategic investments to convert the current Edinburg, Tex. sheet plant into a warehouse, invest in its current facility in McAllen, Tex. to increase capabilities and shift its current Reynosa, Mexico operations to a new, more modern and capable facility that is currently under construction in Reynosa. The company will close its box plant and sheet plant in Edinburg, Tex.

Södra has reached an agreement with Robert Jan de Waard and Ronald Rijswijk to acquire all shares in the Dutch company Smartt Timber BV.