Operations News

There were no injuries following a small fire at Dunn Paper on the morning of June 17.

Morrison spent 18 years at Cox Enterprises, a leading communications, media and automotive services company, where he retired as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer in January 2020.

Stora Enso has completed the co-determination negotiations concerning the closing down the pulp and paper production at its Kvarnsveden site in Sweden. The closure will take place by the end of the third quarter of 2021.

D.Sc. (Tech.), Maija Pohjakallio is appointed Metsä Group's VP, Climate and Circular Economy as of 1 August 2021. She reports to Jari Voutilainen, SVP Corporate Affairs.

Metsä Spring has appointed Mikko Himanen as Process Specialist. In this new position he is working for the project focused on developing new 3D fibre products and production technology. Mr. Himanen reports to Metsä Spring's Technology Manager Veli-Matti Hulkko.

A fire in a warehouse on June 25 on A dock at Powell River's Paper Excellence Catalyst paper mill is now under control.

The White Mountain Paper Co.'s stabilization plan includes demolishing 40 percent of its buildings' shells and removing 25 percent of what's inside them.

Quad/Graphics Inc. has announced the appointment of Josh Golden as Chief Marketing Officer effective July 5, 2021. Golden most recently served as president and publisher of the advertising and marketing trade magazine Ad Age.

It took firefighters about an hour Wednesday night, June 16, to put out a fire at the ND Paper Mill, according to Rumford Deputy Chief Chris Bryant.

Stora Enso has completed the installation of dispersion barrier technology at its Forshaga site in Sweden and production has now started. Completion of the installation follows the company's EUR 10 million investment announced in 2020. The installation was carried out on time and the production of new products will be ramped up during the coming months.

Uncertainties amid the COVID-19 pandemic kept the relatively new mill closed for more than a year.

As we enter National Safety Month 2021 in June, we're proud to say Domtar facilities are on a positive trend, with several sites or groups recently achieving safety milestones.

Metsä Group is expanding the operations of its innovation company Metsä Spring that was established in June 2018. So far, Metsä Spring has been mainly involved in development activities outside the current business areas of Metsä Group. From now on, it will also support research and development related to Metsä Group's current business areas.

Metsä Group has started a planning process with the City of Äänekoski with the aim of expanding the production of mechanical wood products at the Äänekoski mill site in the future.

Paper Excellence announced that several key roles have been filled as work to restart the Prince Albert pulp mill ramps up.

Smurfit Kappa has announced an investment of €11.5 million in its Zülpich paper mill in Germany, which produces approximately 500,000 tonnes of paper annually.

The cause of a fire last week at the idled Verso paper mill in Wisconsin Rapids is still under investigation, but company leaders say they do not anticipate it will affect "any future plans or options for the mill."

Ahlstrom-Munksjö has completed an investment in one of its filtration material production lines in Binzhou, China.

Investigators say the machine wasn't near the paper supply, and the cause for the fire is still being determined.

A fire inside Packaging Corporation of America's Boise paper mill in International Falls kept local firefighters at the scene for about five hours on Sunday, May 23.

Klabin is building at the Puma II Project, together with the new packaging paper production line in Ortigueira, Paraná, the first ever sulfuric acid plant integrated to a pulp and paper mill in Brazil, which will make the unit self-sufficient in producing the acid.

There were no injuries at an early morning fire Monday, May 17, at the Georgia Pacific Medium Density Fiberboard plant in Mount Jewett.

Norske Skog met with employees this past weekto tell them it is considering closing down its Tasman Mill.

Arup Basu, President, Flexible Packaging, and a member of Huhtamaki Global Executive Team has decided to leave Huhtamaki. The process to find Arup's successor has been initiated.

Clearwater Paper Corporation announced that Christine M. Vickers Tucker has been elected to the company's board of directors, effective May 18, 2021.