PAPER INDUSTRY NEWS

March 4 - BillerudKorsnäs announced that Helene Biström, Executive Vice President Commercial, has decided to leave the company at her own request...

March 3 - As global consumer trends and demands continue to shift at an escalating pace — especially given the events of 2020 — markets for wood fiber residuals have undergone both structural and temporal changes...

March 3 - Sappi Europe announced that it will increase prices for all of the company's Packaging and Speciality paper grades by 7 - 11%, effective with deliveries...

March 3 - Monadnock Paper Mills has announced a new distribution partnership with Case Paper, one of the largest privately held distributors and converters of paper and board for the printing and...

March 2 - This divestiture is a significant milestone in Domtar's strategic transformation to become to become a leading paper, pulp and packaging...

March 2 - Lucart announced the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Essential Supply Products, one of the UK's leading independent manufacturers and converters of...

March 2 - Building on the sustainability success of paper based packaging and recycling, the AF&PA released a new...

March 2 - WestRock Company announced that Steven C. Voorhees has decided to step down from his position as President and CEO and a director of the Company for health reasons, effective...

March 2 - Valmet will supply a folding boxboard making line (BM 1), a fine paper making line (PM 3) and a...

March 1 - Lindenmeyr Munroe, the largest privately held independent paper merchant in the U.S., announced that its Olmsted-Kirk division is being renamed to operate under the ...

March 1 - Mayr-Melnhof Karton AG, together with the arranging banks Erste Group, Bank Austria and Raiffeisenbank International, has successfully placed a...

Feb. 26 - PCA has discontinued production of UFS...

Feb. 26 - KP Tissue and Kruger Products announced the completion of construction and successful start-up of...

Feb. 25 - SCA announced that it will increase the prices on white and brown kraftliner in Europe by EUR 50 per tonne. The new price is valid from...

Feb. 25 - "Despite 2020 being a challenging year, we continued to strengthen our operational efficiency and flexibility, manage our costs and working capital to generate free cash flow, and align our product...

Feb. 25 - SCA early this morning permanently shut-down paper machine LWC4 at Ortviken paper mill in Sweden. With this, SCA's production of publication paper has...

Feb. 25 - Roosevelt Paper Company announced that it has partnered with Scholarship America to establish a new scholarship program for the children and...

Feb. 24 - Berkley International announced the sale of its Molded Fiber (pulp) manufacturing division, Berkley MF LLC, to International Paper for an undisclosed purchase price...

Feb. 24 - Ahlstrom-Munksjö's CelluStraw offering consists of specialty papers developed for the inner and outer plies of paper straws, and runs well on high-speed converting...

Feb. 24 - Domtar announced appointments to the company's management committee. These appointments streamline...

Feb. 23 - President Biden signed an executive order setting a goal of protecting 30 percent of all U.S. lands and waters by 2030. What does "30×30" mean, and what does it "protect" these lands and waters from?

Feb. 23 - The price adjustment involves all cut size office papers, including Navigator, Pioneer, and Discovery and all rolls, including Navigator Premium Inkjet and...

Feb. 23 - Voith announced that Republic Paperboard recently installed and commissioned a new curtain coater system that will allow Republic to produce...

Feb. 22 - Valmet and Metsä Fibre have finalized the agreement for the key technology delivery covering all main process islands and automation systems for Metsä Fibre's...

Feb. 22 - Digital Color Ink will be offering Monadnock's recently launched ENVIsual Board, the "Un-Plastic Alternative" for in-store marketing applications such as...

Feb. 22 - Mill Rock Capital, a private investment firm, announced that its portfolio company Mill Rock Packaging...

Feb. 19 - Körber Tissue announced that Mauro Luna has been appointed Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. He will report directly to CEO Oswaldo Cruz. Luna joined Körber Tissue in 2019 as...

Feb. 19 - The American Forest & Paper Association has released its January 2021 Packaging Papers & Specialty Packaging Monthly report. According to the report...

Feb. 19 - Progroup announced that construction is starting for its "PW14" corrugated sheetfeeder facility located at the company's paper mill in Stryków, Poland. The new plant...

Feb. 18 - The European Paper Industry welcomes the European Commission's resolve to ensure that trade tools accompany and promote value chains that are...

Feb. 18 - ABB has supplied Oji Fibre Solutions' Penrose Mill in Auckland with a specially designed winder safety system — the first of its kind in New Zealand — as well as a winder drive control system and...

Feb. 17 - Clearwater Paper has temporarily suspended its pulp and paperboard operation in Cypress Bend, Arkansas (USA). The cold weather has resulted in the curtailment of...

Feb. 17 - The La Rochette mill produces cartonboard for folding boxboard (FBB) based on virgin fibers and has the capacity to produce 165,000 tons per year. The mill operates...

Feb. 17 - SKF announced the hiring and promotion of two key additions to the executive leadership team of SKF USA. Fal Dieso joins SKF as vice president of marketing in North America, and Amy Sliwinski has been promoted to...

Feb. 17 - Based on a Global Market Insights report, the Corrugated Equipment Market size was estimated at $226.77 million in 2020 and is slated to surpass $282.3 million by...

Feb. 16 - Case Paper has announced recent changes to the Executive Management Team. Simon Schaffer has assumed the role of President of Case Paper. Previously, Schaffer served as...

Feb. 16 - AF&PA has released its January 2021 Printing-Writing Monthly report. According to the report, total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 25 percent in January...

Feb. 15 - Pixelle said that carbonless rolls formerly manufactured by Appvion will be manufactured by the Pixelle specialty papers mill in Chillicothe, Ohio, and...

Feb. 15 - The two towers will collect vital wind data over the next twelve months. The collected data will serve to verify the wind resource over the project site and...

Feb. 15 - AstenJohnson announced that Connie Wilson has accepted the role of VP Human Resources. Wilson has been with the company for over 30 years and has held a number of leadership roles including...

Feb. 15 - Timber and the land timber occupy are economic assets. As in any market, when there is strong demand, owners actively manage their assets to...

Feb. 15 - The American Forest & Paper Association Board of Directors announced advocacy priorities the association will pursue to ensure the pulp, paper, packaging, tissue and...

Feb. 13 - Domtar's Nekoosa and Rothschild mills have discovered a mutual benefit to the lime byproduct produced in the process of making pulp. The two mills...

Feb. 12 - International Paper has entered into an agreement to sell the Kwidzyn pulp and paper mill and supporting operations to Mayr-Melnhof Karton AG for ...

Feb. 12 - Ox Industries has acquired Corex US, LLC, a manufacturer of spiral wound tubes and cores located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. This facility adds high strength...

Feb. 12 - Stora Enso's cellulose foam is a lightweight wood fiber-based foam material for protective and cushioning material in packaging. This novel, sustainable foam material...

Feb. 11 - "Our paper shipments were in line with the third quarter and order activity remained stable across all channels, while paper pricing was...

Feb. 10 - The American Forest & Paper Association announced the election of Graphic Packaging International President and CEO Michael Doss as...

Feb. 10 - Cepi announced that despite the slowing down of the European economy and the sanitary restrictions, most of the pulp and paper mills in Europe...

Feb. 10 - Rottneros announced that it will increase the price for its SW BCTMP by USD 75 per ton on all new orders for South East Asian...

Feb. 10 - Irish-owned Zeus Packaging announced the signing of a binding agreement to acquire Austrian-based food...

Feb. 9 - Graphic Packaging International announced the launch of ProducePack™, a sustainable paperboard packaging range of solutions for fresh produce...

Feb. 8 - Paper Excellence has recently invested more than $600,000 in engineering and consulting work focused on restarting the Prince Albert pulp mill in Saskatchewan,...

Feb. 8 - Greif, Inc. announced a price increase of 7% on all paper tubes, cores, and protective packaging products in the United States and...

Feb. 8 - "The preliminary affirmative rulings – Indonesia and Brazil – ensure that paper imports are traded fairly in...

Feb. 5 - Buckman, a privately-held global company specializing in innovative chemistry and smart solutions, announced global price increases of...

Feb. 5 - WestRock is undertaking extensive efforts to identify, contain and recover from this incident quickly and securely. Upon discovering...

Feb. 5 - Paper Excellence announced that the International Chamber of Commerce arbitration court in Brazil has ruled...

Feb. 5 - Valmet announced that Petri Paukkunen has been appointed Area President, Asia Pacific Area as of April 1, 2021. Paukkunen is currently employed as...

Feb. 5 - Kemira has announced a 5-15% price increase for most process and functional chemicals used by pulp and paper customers in the Americas...

Feb. 4 - Smurfit Kappa announced further investments in the expansion and modernisation of its paper sacks business in Latin America in response to growing market trends and...

Feb. 4 - International Paper reported full-year and fourth quarter 2020 financial results. "In terms of results, International Paper delivered solid earnings and outstanding cash...

Feb. 4 - Sonoco announced it will increase the price for all paperboard tubes and cores by a minimum of 6 percent, effective with shipments in the United States and...

Feb. 4 - Resolute Forest Products reported a net loss for the quarter ended December 31, 2020, of $52 million, or $0.63 per share, compared to a net loss of $71 million...

Feb. 3 - Sappi Chief Executive Officer, Steve Binnie, made the following comments on the group's first financial quarter 2021 results. "I am pleased with the continued recovery in...

Feb. 3 - Greif announced that it is implementing price increases on certain paperboard and containerboard products: a $50 per ton price increase for all grades of...

Feb. 3 - Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) announced that Andy Piotter has accepted the position of Business Development Manager, Packaging Systems. In this role Piotter will develop the company's new packaging systems division...

Feb. 2 - When China announced it would stop importing foreign waste — including a crucial component in the production of cardboard — Cheung Yan, the chairwoman of Nine Dragons...

Feb. 2 - Graphic Packaging Holding Company today reported Net Income for fourth quarter 2020 of $64.2 million. This compares to fourth quarter 2019 Net Income of $33.0 million...

Feb. 2 - Georgia-Pacific announced the expansion of its Hummingbird® digital print solutions with the purchase of an HP PageWide T1190 Press. The new 110-inch wide web press...

Feb. 1 - The European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers (FEFCO) announced the appointment of Eleni Despotou as the new Secretary General effective 1 February. She succeeds Angelika Christ, who served as FEFCO Secretary General since...

Feb. 1 - Sonoco is implementing a $50 per ton price increase for all grades of uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) in the...

Feb. 1 - Sappi announced that its South African division has been awarded the first-ever Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification forest management certificate in...

Feb. 1 - Stora Enso has decided to permanently close its US-based Virdia operations during 2021. Virdia was acquired in 2014 and has focused on conversion of cellulosic biomass...