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As part of its ongoing commitment to relentless innovation and product development, Quad, a marketing experience company, acquired North Carolina-based DART Innovation, an in-store digital media solutions provider.

The building the tractor-trailer was attached to suffered severe water damage.

Combination creates a large-scale global franchise with an industry-leading solution set serving attractive, growing specialty materials markets.

The mill has the capacity to produce 65,000 metric tons per year of bath, napkin and towel grades of tissue.

The plant manufactures corrugated board and boxes.

A conveyor belt carrying shredded wood chips at a Skowhegan paper mill caught fire Saturday morning, Feb. 3, prompting a wide response from local fire departments.

The closure is expected to impact 55 employees.

"Canada is extremely disappointed that the U.S. Department of Commerce has signaled its intention to significantly increase its duties on softwood lumber from Canada," International Trade Minister Mary Ng said in a statement.

The Lakeview mill will go from two shifts down to one 50-hour shift per week.

Smurfit Kappa is set to invest €54m to double the capacity of its bag-in-box plant in Alicante, Spain.

Stora Enso said it could lay off about 1,000 employees this year as part of a profit improvement plan, as the Finnish forestry firm and rival UPM-Kymmene both forecast a slow start to 2024 on Thursday.

Carbon removals and renewable energy company Drax Group has announced a new partnership with Molpus Woodlands Group (Molpus). The agreement will provide Drax with an option to purchase sustainably sourced woody biomass to fuel its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) operations in the US Southeast.

An energy transformer issue knocked out main power to the company's Lavington operation about eight weeks ago, and Tolko reported a replacement has been sourced, installed and energized. As of Monday, the site was safely back on line.

To maintain its strong position and develop an even more competitive industrial structure over time, Södra Wood is consolidating its sawn timber operations. The aim is to achieve economies of scale by relocating production volumes to Södra Wood's larger production units. 

Since SCA's unique electric timber truck was put into operation in June 2022, it has covered a distance of 4,600 kilometers, equivalent to more than one lap around the globe.

Sonoco Products Company announced that certain of its subsidiaries entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Protective Solutions business to Black Diamond Capital Management, LLC ("Black Diamond") for an estimated $80 million in cash.

According to a company statement, two contractor employees were injured while working on a chip conveyor tunnel.

This decision affects approximately 75 employees.

Boise Cascade Wood Products announced it plans to invest $75 million to expand and modernize key machine centers at its Oakdale facility in Allen Parish. These projects will increase veneer production capacity by 30 percent and allow the facility to produce up to 400 million square feet of dry veneer annually.

Residents claim the plant has continued to release an excessive amount of gas, which they believe is toxic, going against the Clean Air Act.

Years of prison await a woman from the region who confessed to stealing more than a half million dollars from her employer.

Months after a nearly century-old paper mill closed in Tacoma, the same company, WestRock, is closing a packaging plant in Seattle. About 87 employees at the Seattle plant will lose their jobs come March, when the plant closes. The company notified the Washington State Employment Security Department of the layoffs on Jan. 19.

Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development says it is investigating the death, where the worker was killed by a log loader vehicle.

Mativ is putting in place a restructuring plan to reduce costs by $40 million by the end of 2026 as it reorganizes its business structure and lays off senior employees.

Senators: "Bestwall has created a legal stratagem that radically expands the authority of bankruptcy courts and makes a mockery of congressional intent".