Major Announcements

Kimberly-Clark Corporation announced executive leadership changes to accelerate the company's progress toward achieving its K-C Strategy 2022 goals.

Sappi North America, Inc., a leading producer and supplier of diversified graphic and release papers, packaging products and dissolving wood pulp, announced that its Somerset Mill in Skowhegan, Maine is certified to the ISO 22000:2018 Food Safety Management System (FSMS) standard.

"Pixelle Specialty Solutions has promoted Timothy R. Hess to Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Universal Forest Products, Inc. announced it has completed the reorganization of its operations and is now operating as UFP Industries, a change announced in August 2019.

If the private equity firms win the election next month, it will likely pave the way for a merger of Verso and Twin Rivers and derail the $400 million sale of Verso mills in Jay and Stevens Point, Wisconsin, to specialty paper company Pixelle Specialty Solutions, the board warned.

Verso is seeking to replace the leadership of its board of directors to ward off the election a competing slate of nominees chosen by a group of investors that Verso says is waging a proxy war for control of the company.

Fortress Global Enterprises Inc. announces that it has failed to receive any indications of interest pursuant to its previously announced strategic and financing initiative by the required deadline under the financing agreement entered into among the Company's wholly owned subsidiaries, Fortress Specialty Cellulose Inc. and Fortress Bioenergy Ltd.

LSC Communications, Inc. announced that it received notification from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 20, 2019, that the Company is no longer in compliance with NYSE continued listing criteria, which require listed companies to maintain an average closing share price of at least $1.00 over a consecutive 30 trading-day period.

The Lenzing Group officially launched construction work in Prachinburi, Thailand right on schedule to build the world's largest lyocell production plant.

Resolute Forest Products said Thursday it is "indefinitely idling" its Augusta newsprint mill effective immediately, leaving 160 employees without work.

The company said it will add 350,000 tons per year of OCC pulping capacity at its Wallula, Wash. mill, which currently produces predominantly virgin linerboard and medium, materials used in containerboard production.

Verso Corporation announced that Michael A. Weinhold has been named President of the company, reporting to Chief Executive Officer Adam St. John, effective immediately.

The building is expected to be completed in 2023.

Sussex-based Quad/Graphics Inc. plans to sell its U.S. book business as part of its Quad 3.0 transformation strategy.

Fortress Global Enterprises Inc. announces that the Toronto Stock Exchange has notified the Company that it is reviewing the eligibility of the Company's securities for continued listing on the TSX pursuant to the requirements of the TSX Company Manual.

Georgia-Pacific is idling two rural South Carolina facilities that employ 240 workers, blaming sluggish conditions in the U.S. home-building industry.

On 1 November 2019, Metsä Wood is opening a new terminal in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK for landed joinery sales.

The investment made by BillerudKorsnäs in the new KM7 machine at the Gruvön mill is the company's biggest investment to date and one of the largest industrial investments in Sweden in recent years.

Nine Dragons Paper Ltd, a public listed paper manufacturing company in Mainland China intends to set up a unit near Paradip, its first facility in India.

Södra Cell International will be split into two product categories - Paper Pulp and Bioproducts - to strengthen Södra's market position as a first-class supplier of paper pulp, while increasing the underlying earnings potential of new products.

The Graphic Packaging mill in Battle Creek will close when that machine is complete two and a half years from now, a company official said.

Annica Bresky will become chief executive of Finnish pulp, paper and packaging board maker Stora Enso Oyj from December, taking over from Karl-Henrik Sundstrom.

Arkansas environmental officials have approved an air permit for a Chinese company's $1.8 billion paper mill that has been delayed by President Donald Trump's trade dispute with China.

Echoing remarks President Trump made during a previous visit to an Ohio manufacturing facility, an Australian billionaire said his investment here would not have been possible without Mr. Trump at the nation's helm.

A preliminary accident report reveals what happened in the moments before a plane carrying employees of a metro Atlanta-based paper and packaging company crashed and burst into flames in California last month.