Operations News

Paper Excellence says it's temporarily laying off around 95 employees at its Crofton pulp and paper mill starting Saturday to coincide with scheduled annual maintenance.

UFP Industries announced the appointment of Allen Peters to executive vice president of innovation, effective January 1, 2023. Allen's new duties will include leading UFP's Innovation Accelerator and Innov8 Fund teams. He will also use his unique experience as president of UFP Retail Solutions to drive the ambitious new products and technology push necessary for rapid iterative changes through the organization.

Weyerhaeuser Company announced that as of this morning a work stoppage involving members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union is impacting its operations in Oregon and Washington. Weyerhaeuser has approximately 1,200 employees who are members of IAM, including employees in the company's Wood Products and Timberlands organizations.

Canfor Corporation is announcing reduced operating schedules effective September 12, 2022 at its Swedish facilities due to a decrease in market demand. The reduced operating schedules will result in a 15% decrease in production capacity and are anticipated to be in effect through the fourth quarter.

Four people were injured, including one critically, from steam released from a valve at a Roanoke Rapids paper mill.

The decided production stop at Nordic Paper plant in Greåker, Norway, is planned for three days and is estimated to have marginal financial impact on the results of the Company in the third quarter. The production stop is due to the currently very high daily prices for electricity in Norway.

Aaron Hobart died in an industrial accident at the Ahlstrom-Munksjo Thilmany mill last Tuesday. The nature of the incident in the plant has not been released yet.

In its second-quarter results for 2022, Canfor said the Taylor Pulp Mill curtailment will continue until "more normal" transportation levels return to its pulp and paper mills.

The Interfor Board appointed Tom Temple of Kingston, Washington as a director of the Company. Mr. Temple, who is 65, is the former VP, Wood Products and Southern Resources of PotlatchDeltic, a diversified forest products company. Mr. Temple's appointment increased the number of directors from ten to eleven, while deepening the Board's operations and sales expertise in the U.S. in line with the Company's Board succession plan.

It was the first time workers at the plant had struck since 1978.

Rottneros AB announces that Pia Ohlson has decided to leave her position as CFO as of 5 September 2022. As CFO, Pia Ohlson has been a member of group management in Rottneros.

Mill Rock Packaging Partners, a specialty packaging platform that invests in growth-oriented companies with advanced service and product capabilities in the consumer packaging industry, announced that Steve Rice has been named Chief Information Officer, a new position for the company. Mill Rock Packaging is a portfolio company of New York-based Mill Rock Capital, a growth and operations-oriented private investment firm.

Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers (AWPPW) workers went on strike at 12:30 a.m. Sunday on July 17th, 2022, over unfair labor practices (ULPs) at Graphics Packaging International in Portland, Oregon. AWPPW Local 78 members have overwhelmingly authorized a strike in response to the company's pattern of allegedly violating federal labor laws.

According to the Amherst Chamber of Commerce website, the address is for Greif Packaging Services, LLC - Riverville Mill.

The Thomasville Fire Department received a fire call to the Louisiana-Pacific mill in the North Clarke Industrial Park shortly before 4 o'clock Sunday morning, July 24. Also responding were Fulton and Grove Hill departments.

Rengo Co., Ltd. has established a new plant to increase production of "Viscopearl," a spherical cellulose microbead manufactured from wood pulp, and will commence full-scale operation in July.

Congratulations to the team at Roseburg's El Dorado MDF plant in Arkansas, which recently achieved a full year injury-free.

WestRock Company announced that Dmitri L. Stockton, retired chairman, president and chief executive officer of GE Asset Management, has been elected to the Company's board of directors.

Starting September 26, Emmanuelle Picard is appointed EVP of the Building Materials division at Ahlstrom-Munksjö and a member of the Executive Management Team.

Conifex Timber Inc. announced a delay in the resumption of operations at its power plant in Mackenzie, British Columbia, Canada, following the previously disclosed dispatch period. In the course of annual maintenance of the power plant, damage to the plant's turbine has been discovered. The boiler, generator and other long lead-time equipment have not been impacted.

Fire crews were called to the Twin Rivers Mohawk Valley Paper Mill in Little Falls early Thursday morning July 14 after a fire broke out around 1:20 a.m.

West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) has revealed that the huge blaze which was declared a major incident in Birmingham on June 12 was started by coals from a disposable barbecue, as they warn people to use them responsibly amid the upcoming heatwave.

Sanna Väisänen has been appointed as Koskisen's Director of Sustainability and Communications and a member of the Executive Board effective 1 September 2022.

After more than 24 hours, the July 9 warehouse fire in Combined Locks has finally been put out.

IFS, the global cloud enterprise software company, announced that Sweden-based speciality paper manufacturer, Nordic Paper, has decided to upgrade its existing on-premise enterprise asset management (EAM) software to the latest IFS Cloud™ solution to drive efficiencies across its global operations. The upgrade will be implemented by IFS channel partner, Novacura, which is also based in Sweden.