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Roseburg Forest Products announced that it has ceased operations at its Weed, Calif., veneer plant as of Dec. 3, 2025. The company is consolidating veneer production at its Oregon mills, where it has installed new, highly efficient veneer equipment. The move strengthens Roseburg's long-term competitiveness in engineered wood and softwood plywood markets.
UPM is a material solutions company with world-class businesses in growth markets. With the intended graphic paper Joint Venture between UPM and Sappi announced today, UPM aims to position the communication paper business for continued value creation for its customers in a way that benefits UPM shareholders. Assuming the Joint Venture is formed, UPM would achieve a stronger growth profile, improved margins and leverage, with no direct sales exposure to the declining European and North American graphic paper markets.
Canfor Corp currently owns approximately 54.8% of the issued and outstanding Canfor Pulp Shares.
A fire has been reported at Georgia-Pacific in Hosford early Wednesday, Dec 3.
Domtar pulp mill in Crofton to close, leading to 350 job losses.
The change will impact 79 employees.
The curtailments will begin on December 15th and is expected to reduce production by 13 million board feet.
The $7,000 fine was documented in October 2025, though state regulators said the mill later demonstrated compliance with an air pollutant limit.
3 apparatus, 1 command vehicle and 25 firefighters responded and were there approximately 6 hours with an additional hour of cleanup afterwards.
Metsä Group will restart its Joutseno pulp mill on 8 December 2025, ending a production shutdown that began in June. Concurrently, the company will initiate an approximately one-month production curtailment at its Rauma pulp mill, starting 15 December 2025, with a gradual restart scheduled from 7 January 2026. The adjustments are a response to current market demand for long-fibre softwood pulp.
Rengo Co., Ltd. has announced the start of operations at a new heavy-duty corrugated packaging plant for its subsidiary TRICOR Packaging & Logistics AG in Goch, Germany.
Effective January 1, 2026, Essity's business areas will be as follows: Health & Medical, Personal Care, Consumer Tissue and Professional Hygiene. The new business areas reflect the organizational change being made to accelerate the company's growth rate and more rapidly achieve its financial targets.
The closure will affect 30 employees.
Metsä Fibre may temporarily lay off all personnel at its Lappeenranta, Rauma, Renko and Vilppula sawmills in Finland for up to 90 days between January and June 2026.
Aerial trucks were used to fight the fire, including on the rooftop area, that police say started in a paper machine when particles overheated and ignited. Crews worked against high winds for several hours to put it out.
The installation is one element of a €400m ($463.8m) investment program to boost capacity at the mill.
Clayton Dubilier & Rice is moving forward with a $4.5 billion leveraged loan to facilitate its acquisition of Sealed Air (SEE), as part of a $7.9 billion debt arrangement. This financing, one of the largest recent buyout deals, includes both USD and euro-denominated loans.
German paper and packaging company Palm Group has taken a 50% interest in Power Packaging, which is based in the Czech Republic.
Ennis, Inc. announced that it has acquired the assets of CFC Print & Mail ("CFC"), a wholesale provider of business‑document printing, mailing and commercial print solutions based in Grand Prairie, Texas.
50 jobs have been lost after the closure of Saxon Packaging in Lowestoft, which was acquired by Smurfit Kappa (now Smurfit Westrock) in 2016.
The €370 million investment doubles the mill's annual tissue paper capacity to 145,000 tonnes, significantly strengthening the local supply of high-quality tissues, like Lambi, Serla, and Katrin products for both consumers and professional customers across Scandinavia.
Under the new setup, Stora Enso will reorganize its businesses into four segments: Consumer Packaging, Integrated Packaging, Biomaterials, and Other, which replaces its current six-segment model.
With the provincial government making it at least two parties in the process, Macer's bid will be the starting point for an auction to be held Nov. 27. Bids will be required to increase by increments of at least $200,000. If Macer does not win the auction, the company would receive compensation of up to $3.1 million.
The Nova Scotia Forestry Innovation Transition Trust is investing $1.8 million to assist private landowners and forest contractors in finding new markets for underutilized wood fibre and to support sustainable forestry management.
New agreement signed at COP30 will see organisations collaborating to use artificial intelligence tools for biodiversity monitoring and digital platforms to boost public engagement in conservation efforts.
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