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The PM40 closed Friday, 30 August 2019, at 2909.

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The PM40 closed 30 August 2019 down 30.3% from the 31 August 2018 level.

In this issue of Disconnected Comparisons, we evaluate Louisiana Pacific and Rayonier.

Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

A couple of weeks ago a famous price index reporter announced they are starting a price index for recycled linerboard. This is a "solution" in search of a problem!

International technology Group ANDRITZ has acquired the Swedish company KEMPULP, a specialist provider of process technologies for the chemical pulping industry.

Over the next three years, the collaboration will provide education to 4,000 pupils and 500 teachers in Mexico City and Chihuahua about attitudes and habits in connection with menstrual hygiene management and hand washing.

Smurfit Kappa was once again recognized by the FTSE4Good Index for its commitment to sustainability.

More workers at Georgia Pacific in Crossett are having to look for other jobs.

Tolko says its Armstrong, Lumby and Heffley Creek operations in British Columbia will see shift reductions as volatile conditions continue to plague the province's lumber industry.

St. Stephen will lose 60 to 75 jobs by the end of the year because particleboard operations at the Arauco plant will be shutting down.

Fortress Global Enterprises Inc. announces that, as a result of ongoing financial constraints impacting the Company primarily resulting from a 10-year low in dissolving pulp prices, the Board of Directors has formed a Strategic Committee to consider various strategic and financing alternatives potentially available to the Company, including a recapitalization, restructuring and/or business combination transaction.

A Belfast startup says it has bought the former Madison Paper Industries mill. Building products manufacturing startup GO Lab indicated the deal was worth $1.9 million.

LSC Communications and United Business Mail (UBM) announced today that UBM has acquired LSC's commingle business for $11.25 million in cash.

David Koch, the industrialist and libertarian who used his fortune to transform American politics while also donating more than $1 billion to philanthropic causes, has died. He was 79.

New economic incentives are keeping one of Martin County's largest manufacturers and taxpayers in the area.

Paper-making is returning to West Linn after an almost two-year hiatus.

Ten people walked away unscathed after a small aircraft they were aboard went off a runway before bursting into flames.

LSC Communications announced the opening of Crawfordsville Family Health Center, the company's first onsite medical facility offering healthcare, wellness coaching and assessments for its employees and their families.

In an effort it says will address environmental challenges and safeguard jobs, Norpac is converting one of its Longview paper machines to produce packaging products from 100% recycled waste paper.

Burnout is a serious workplace issue

For filmmaker David Craig, a new documentary depicting the fraught emotions over the future of a rural Nova Scotia pulp mill is not solely a local story.

Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, is one of the founding members of Alliance Gobelet Carton that was founded in the spring to organise a pilot for the collection and recycling of paperboard cups in France.

Amcor Ltd. said it would buy back shares worth up to US$500 million, offering investors a quick return on its acquisition of U.S. plastic food packaging company Bemis Co.

IT Tech Packaging, Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of diversified paper products in North China, today (23 Aug 2019) announced that Mr. Zhenyong Liu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, visited Asia Symbol (Shandong) Pulp and Paper Co., Ltd., the largest wood pulp producer in China and a key supplier of the Company from which the Company currently gets adequate wood pulp on a monthly basis for its tissue paper business.

Columbia Falls residents near the Weyerhaeuser facility reported hearing an explosion coming from the facility.

Crews are responding to a possible fire Aug. 19 in Roaring Spring at the Appvion paper mill, officials confirmed.

Crofton Fire Department responded to a small fire in a scrapyard at the Catalyst Paper Excellence Crofton pulp mill.

The FDNY was called to a paper-recycling facility in Travis early Monday morning (Aug. 19) for a report of a fire on the first floor.

Firefighters from Effingham and Teutopolis responded to Quad Graphics in Effingham, where a fire was reported in the scrap room of the printing plant.

Moses Lake Police officers have determined that a threat reportedly made against International Paper employees was not serious and doesn't rise to the level of criminal harassment.

Quad recently announced plans to close its Shakopee, Minn., retail advertising insert printing facility on or about Sept. 14, impacting approximately 140 employees. Work performed there will be consolidated into other Quad locations.

Two firefighters were injured after a fire at the ND Paper mill in Old Town, according to firefighters.