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Valmet's website, valmet.com, has reached the top position in Finland in the Comprend Webranking 2024.

On November 1, 2024, BASF closed the divestment of its flocculant mining business to Solenis, a global producer of specialty chemicals for water intensive industries, including the pulp, paper, oil and gas, chemical processing, mining, biorefining, power and municipal markets.

Customer selects ABB drives and motors for Lucca Paper Mill, which will be the biggest mill of its kind in the country.

BTG Pactual TIG Marks Significant Progress Towards $1 Billion Target to Restore Degraded Land and Promote Sustainable Forestry Across Latin America.

Suzano, one the world's largest producers of bio-based raw materials, is establishing a long-term initiative with Jesus College Cambridge and the University of Cambridge. An initial £10 million donation will be used to support education and research into areas including the conservation of biodiversity, enhancing business sustainability, and the restoration of natural habitats in Brazil and beyond.

Reports of fish either dead or in distress along the Jackson River near the Pool in Covington have raised alarms among environmentalists and locals, with initial indications pointing to a possible chemical spill from the Smurfit-WestRock mill.

KraftPal Technologies, a leader in sustainable pallet solutions, is proud to announce its strategic partnership with Orora Packaging Solutions to deliver its innovative corrugated pallets to Orora's wide customer base across the U.S.

New Protective Mailers, created jointly by Mondi and Amazon, won the eCommerce category E-Commerce of the Sustainable Packaging Summit 2024.

The iconic pizza brand and one of its key pizza box suppliers want customers to know that pizza boxes can be recycled.

Arctic Paper S.A. has signed an agreement for the acquisition of an existing solar park close to Warsaw. The plant in Garwolin in the Masovian area has an output of 4 MW.

Huhtamäki Oyj has signed a EUR 450 million sustainability-linked syndicated multi-currency revolving credit facility loan agreement ("RCF") with a maturity of five (5) years.

DS Smith, a leading fiber-based packaging manufacturer, announced today that its Spanish-language interpreters program has been awarded a prestigious Better Practices, Better Planet 2030 Sustainability Award from the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA).

In July 2024, weeks before the start of school for millions of children and young adults across the country, nine Georgia-Pacific mechanics from six facilities, including the Rome Lumber mill in Georgia and the Sweetwater Complex in Texas, went back to the classroom at partner Yancey Bros. Co.'s headquarters in Austell, Georgia.

UPM Timber has been awarded Timber Development UK's (TDUK) Sustainability Award. The Sustainability Award recognises a company that shows leadership in push for net zero emissions. TDUK is the largest, most comprehensive supply chain body for timber in the UK, with a mission to unite the supply chain, from sawmill to specifier, and to support a sustainable, net zero timber industry.

Rottneros continues to sell emission allowances. In addition to the sales in September, which the Group reported on in the report for the Q3 2024, emission allowances for SEK 44 million ($4 million) have so far been sold in the Q4.

Ahlstrom, a global leader in fiber-based specialty materials, is proud to announce that its near and long-term science-based emissions reduction targets have been approved, and net-zero science-based target by 2050 has been verified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

A range of energy efficiency measures are contributing to progress towards achieving 2030 emission reduction targets.

Ahlstrom, a global leader in fiber-based specialty materials, has joined the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a global organization committed to accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.

Company invests in additional manufacturing lines, introduces new unpadded mailer styles.

Sappi North America is pleased to announce that Sappi Limited has been ranked 7th globally and is one of only four South African firms recognized in the 2024 list of World's Top Companies for Women by Forbes Magazine and Statista.

Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

​Marco Hilty, President, Flexible Packaging, and member of the Huhtamaki Global Executive Team, has decided to leave Huhtamaki for personal reasons. Marco's last day with Huhtamaki will be January 31, 2025. The process to appoint Marco's successor has been initiated.

Completion of the Sale Accelerates Transformation into a Premier Independent Supplier of Paperboard to North American Converters and Significantly Reduces the Company's Net Debt.

In total, 526 hourly employees and 148 salaried employees will be impacted.

Mika Kekki has been appointed Executive Vice President of UPM Specialty Papers as of 1 January 2025. He will continue to be a member of UPM's Group Executive Team and report to UPM's CEO Massimo Reynaudo.