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PAPER INDUSTRY NEWS

• Verso Suspends Active Search for a Buyer of Its Wisconsin Rapids Paper Mill (10/23)
• Kadant Fiberline China Successfully Starts-up OCC System at Shanying International's Jingzhou Mill (10/23)
• Canfor Pulp Reports Results for Third Quarter of 2020 (10/23)
• VPK Group to Acquire UK-based Corrugated Packaging Producer Encase Ltd (10/22)
• Kimberly-Clark Announces Third Quarter 2020 Results (10/22)
• Rottneros Reports January-September 2020 Results (10/22)
• Södra Reports "Stable" Third Quarter 2020 Results (10/22)
• Columbia Pulp Mill Still Mostly Idled, Awaits Infusion of Cash (10/21)
• Valmet to Supply New Tissue Production Line to WEPA in the United Kingdom (10/21)
• Pactiv Evergreen Commits to 100 Percent Recycled, Recyclable or Renewable Materials (10/21)
• UPM Strengthens Its Labor Market Resourcing with Two Appointments (10/21)
• Greif Announces $50 Per Ton Price Increase on All Uncoated Recycled Paperboard Grades (10/20)
• Graphic Packaging Holding Company Reports Third Quarter 2020 Results; Net Organic Sales Growth Exceeds 4% (10/20)
• Sonoco Implementing $50 per Ton Price Increase for Uncoated Recycled Paperboard in North America (10/19)
• AF&PA Celebrates 60th Anniversary of National Forest Products Week (10/19)
• U.S. Containerboard Production Increased Four Percent in September 2020 (10/16)
• Total U.S. Packaging Papers & Specialty Packaging Shipments Increased Fourteen Percent in September 2020 (10/16)
• Total U.S. Printing-Writing Paper Shipments Decreased 21 Percent in September 2020 (10/16)
• Total U.S. Boxboard Monthly Production Decreased Six Percent in September 2020 (10/16)
• Valmet Completes Its Acquisition of PMP Group (10/16)
• TW Mexico Packaging Solutions Acquires Thimm Packaging Systems Mexico (10/16)
• Atlantic Packaging Products to Build New Recycled Containerboard Machine at Whitby Mill in Ontario (10/15)
• UPM to Permanently Close Kaipola Paper Mill by Mid-December, Jämsänkoski Paper Mill to Continue Operations (10/15)
• Finnish Forest Industries Federation to Discontinue Collective Bargaining Role in Finnish Labour Market (10/15)
• Stora Enso Completes Co-Determination Negotiations at Hylte Mill in Sweden (10/14)
• Hamburger Containerboard to Close Board Machine KM1 at Trostberg Mill in Bavaria (10/14)
• International Paper Completes Sale of Brazilian Corrugated Packaging Business to Klabin (10/14)
• Valmet to Supply Modern Karton's Tekirdag Mill with Paper Machine Grade Conversion Rebuild (10/14)
• Sonoco to Divest Europe Contract Packaging Business to Prairie Industries Holdings for $120 Million (10/14)
• Metsä Board's Paperboards Receive New Home Compostability Certificates (10/13)
• Lecta to Purchase Avery Dennison Offset Sheets Business in Europe - Middle East - North Africa (10/13)
• ND Paper Introduces New Bleached and Natural Kraft Bag Paper Products (10/13)
• New-Indy Reaches Agreement to Acquire Southern California-based Reliable Container (10/13)
• Norske Skog Announces Strategic Review Process to Reposition Its Tasman Newsprint Mill in New Zealand (10/13)
• Economic Study Shows B.C. Forest Industry Has Deep Roots, Builds Strong Communities (10/13)
• Finnpulp Director Says Preparation Will Continue for Proposed Bioproduct Mill in Kuopio, Finland (10/9)
• Sonoco Implementing $50/ton Price Increase for Corrugating Medium (10/8)
• USW Union Backs Thermal Paper Trade Petitions (10/8)
• Russian Pulp May be Increasingly Important to China's Paper Industry (10/8)
• Cascades to Close Tissue Manufacturing and Converting Operations at Ransom and Pittston Plants in Pennsylvania (10/8)
• AstenJohnson Invests $2.5 Million at Its Dryer Fabrics Plant in Kanata, Ontario (10/8)
• Jujo Thermal Starts-up Operation for the Production of New Barrier Coated Paper Product SHIELDPLUS (10/7)
• Finland: Export Price of Pulp in Steep Decline in 2019 (10/7)
• WestRock to Reduce SBS Capacity by Approximately 200,000 Tons (10/6)
• Cascades Moving Forward with Plans to Convert Idled Newsprint Machine at Bear Island Mill to Recycled Linerboard (10/6)
• UPM Seeks Efficiency Improvement in UPM Raflatac and in Global Functions (10/6)
• Central National Gottesman Expands into Nonwovens & Fibers (10/6)
• Sofidel Formally Opens Greenfield Tissue Mill in Inola, Oklahoma (10/5)
• Commercial Development Company Acquires Former WestRock Paper Mill and Related Property in Newberg, Oregon (10/5)
• Klippans Bruk Reinstates Olle Grundberg as CEO (10/5)
• P. H. Glatfelter Company Announces Corporate Name Change (10/5)
• SCA and Renewcell Sign Lease Agreement for Large-Scale Textile Recycling Operation at Ortviken Paper Mill Site (10/3)
• Green Bay Packaging Acquires Ohio-based Corrugated Packaging Producer Third Dimension Inc. (10/2)
• Arctic Paper to Develop High Barrier Biodegradable Paper with Co-Financing of NCBIR (10/2)
• SCA to Increase Brown Kraftliner Price by EUR 50 per Tonne (10/2)
• RDM Group to Acquire Spanish Chipboard Producer Paprinsa (10/1)
• Verso Corporation Announces Change in Leadership (10/1)
• Bosch Rexroth North America Names Greg Gumbs President and CEO; Paul Cooke to Retire (10/1)
• Cascades Launches 100% Recycled and Recyclable Thermoformed Cardboard Food Tray (9/30)
• AF&PA Urges Governor Murphy to Issue a Conditional Veto on New Jersey's Paper Bag Ban (9/29)
• BillerudKorsnäs Launches Recyclable Paper-Based Flow Wrap (9/29)
• Consortium Makes Tender Offer to Take Ahlstrom-Munksjö Private (9/28)
• Port Hawkesbury Paper Celebrates 8 Years of Operation (9/28)
• Stora Enso Starts Production of Formed Fiber Products Free from Plastic and PFAS at Hylte Mill (9/28)
• Northern Pulp Receives New Funding to Pay Employees More Severance, Retiree Benefits (9/27)
• Oji Fibre Solutions Breaks Ground for Construction of New Corrugated Packaging Plant in New Zealand (9/25)
• Papier- und Kartonfabrik Varel Continues EUR 280 Million Investment Program at Varel Mill (9/24)
• ANDRITZ to Supply Two Fully Autonomous Logyard Cranes to Metsä Fibre (9/24)
• Monadnock Paper Mills Expands Alternative Fiber Offerings with Hemp Envi Performance Board (9/23)
• Valmet to Supply Metsä Board's Kemi Mill with Industrial Internet Solutions (9/23)
• Wilmington Paper Corp. Named an Exporter of the Year by EXIM (9/23)
• Former Flambeau River Papers Mill in Wisconsin Reopens with New Owner (9/22)
• Fedrigoni Appoints Luca Zerbini as Its New Managing Director for Paper & Security (9/22)
• Twin Rivers Paper Company Names Tony Mollica Its New Chief Executive Officer (9/21)
• Veritiv Names Salvatore A. Abbate as Chief Executive Officer (9/21)
• OX Industries Restarts White Pigeon Paper Mill in Michigan (9/18)

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