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Tolko Industries, based in Vernon, B.C., has cut its consultant workforce, resulting in several people losing their jobs.

Ingredion Incorporated (NYSE: INGR), a leading global provider of ingredient solutions for food, beverage and industrial applications, announced a $50 million investment in its Cedar Rapids, Iowa facility to modernize and expand the production of industrial starches for the packaging and papermaking industries.

Tim Nicholls named Executive Vice President and President of DS Smith, an International Paper company; Lance Loeffler named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Firefighters put out a fire at the Georgia-Pacific paper mill in Zachary on Thursday, Feb. 27.

Multiple fire department responded to a structure fire at a PotlatchDeltic Forsyth Township lumber mill Friday morning, Feb. 28.

ND Paper plans to re-start PM 25 at its Biron, Wisconsin mill. This machine was idled in April of 2023. With the successful conversion of PM 26 at Biron to recycled packaging and the growing demand for ND Paper's packaging products, the Company to add the capacity of PM 25 back to its portfolio.

Two of Domtar's values are collaboration and entrepreneurship, qualities the Nekoosa, Wisconsin, mill recently demonstrated via a partnership that turned a costly sourcing challenge into an innovative project with environmental, operational and economic benefits.

Amcor plc and Berry Global Group, Inc. announce that at their respective shareholder meetings, held yesterday, shareholders of both companies overwhelmingly voted to approve the combination of these two companies. This approval satisfies the shareholder vote condition for the combination, originally announced in November 2024.

Robert P. Mundy, PCA's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will step down as CFO on May 1, 2025 and remain employed by PCA in an advisory role through his planned retirement date of March 1, 2026. Bob has served as PCA's CFO since 2015. Kent A. Pflederer, PCA's General Counsel since he joined PCA in 2007, will become PCA's Executive Vice President and CFO on May 1, 2025.

New facility project will store up to 9,000 pallets and support local employment, reinforcing Saica Group's long-term commitment to the UK Northeast market.

Irving Paper says it has permanently shut down 50 percent of its operations due to New Brunswick's "uncompetitive industrial electricity rates."

A fire was reported Sunday morning at the Procter & Gamble plant in Oxnard, resulting in apparent smoke inhalation for two workers who were taken to a local hospital for evaluation.

First Quality Tissue Midwest will invest $984 million in the project and has committed to create more than 400 new jobs and $22.5 million in new annual payroll by 2032.

Fire crews returned to the Weyerhaeuser Plant in Columbia Falls early Friday morning, Feb. 21, to extinguish a fire.

Firefighters responded to a call of a fire at Cheney Pulp and Paper in Franklin at around 6:25 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Upon arriving they found nobody suffering from injuries, and managed to extinguish the majority of the fire relatively quickly.

Firefighters arrived at the scene at 7:51 a.m. to find a large explosion had occurred, with fire spreading throughout the east end of the building. Multiple agencies from nearby cities also responded to the incident.

Paper and packaging company Mondi notified the European Union's merger watchdog of its plan to buy Schumacher Packaging's western European assets for 634 million euros ($660.8 million).

According to the ordinance's language, Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Kimberly-Clark Palmetto Inc. "acting for themselves, one or more current or future affiliates, and other project sponsors" would like to "establish and/or expand a manufacturing and distribution facility in county."

Kruger Inc. announced a $6.5-million investment to implement an innovation project aimed at diversifying production at its Wayagamack Mill in Trois-Rivières.

Sealed Air Corporation announced that Emile Chammas, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, will depart from the company effective April 1, 2025. The departure is a mutual agreement, according to the company's latest 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The tissue industry has done this before, are they about to do it again?

The PM40 closed Friday, 28 February 2025, at 5826.

Get the latest PM40 updates by listening to the weekly Nips show and the PM40 Daily Show on Pulp & Paper Radio International.

The PM40 closed 28 February 2025 up 5.6% from the 1 March 2024 level.

In this issue of Disconnected Comparisons, we evaluate International Paper and Rayonier Advanced Materials.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday, Feb. 27, that his proposed 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods will take effect on March 4 as planned.