Operations News

Metsä Board's Kyro mill will be 150 years old this year, 2020. The wood grinding plant along the Kyröskoski rapids was started up in 1870.

Terry Paul Greenwood served our country as a member of the United States Army. He tragically died Thursday, Aug. 20, while on contract at Georgia-Pacific. Saturday, The Widows Sons held a memorial ride to honor his legacy just to say thank you.

Marc Shore, president of WestRock's Multi Packaging Solutions (MPS) business, decided to leave WestRock, effective August 17, 2020. Patrick Kivits has assumed the role of president, MPS since Shore's departure.

Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Ltd. resumed operations on Monday following a week-long production shutdown for maintenance.

Several fire crews responded after a fire broke out at Roseburg Forest Products in Medford on Aug. 11 around 4:50 am.

A small fire in the roof of Battle Creek's Graphic Packaging facility is believed to have been started by an electrical issue.

Many people in Wisconsin Rapids are without a job Monday night after the Verso Paper Mill shut down production. Other Verso workers know their job there has an expiration date.

Interfor's Board of Directors appointed Rick Pozzebon as Senior Vice-President & CFO, effective August 6, 2020. Mr. Pozzebon joined Interfor in January 2014. As Vice President, Corporate Controller, he has led the company's corporate finance and tax functions.

The town of Lawrence heard public comments about rezoning land from agricultural to industrial, which would pave the way for Georgia Pacific to build a 90-acre warehouse and most residents are opposed.

In an earnings call with investors and industry analysts, Verso President and CEO Adam St. John didn't offer great hope that the company will resume production at its Duluth mill anytime soon, if ever.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö announces a further investment in its Binzhou plant to be able to produce abrasive backing papers locally in China.

Earlier this year, everything was proceeding according to plan for the Dryden Mill's spring maintenance outage. The small community of about 8,000 people located in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, was also preparing for an influx of about 500 vendors and contractors.

Government and business leaders are working to save or find a buyer for a Verso Corp. paper mill that shut down in June, laying off hundreds of workers.

Ilim Group says it has started up a new woodroom at its Bratsk mill in Russia. The new woodroom includes three lines with an aggregate capacity of 5 million cubic meters of chips per year. The project investments amounted to $125 million.

Our Sawmills Division has recently completed a $4.9 million investment at the Kedgwick Sawmill. The modernization has meant work for nearly 60 contractors from other small communities from Bathurst to Edmundston.

At about 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, deputies were dispatched to the back gate of Verso's Escanaba Mill. While preparing to dump a wood chip trailer at the mill, a driver had heard a man yelling from inside the trailer. The driver left the mill and called law enforcement.

Sappi Europe is very pleased to report that its Alfeld site PM 3 is operational again as of the 20th of July, significantly ahead of the planned restart date. As previously reported the largest area of reconstruction focused on the machine hall with limited damage to the machine.

SCA has appointed Anders Edholm as new Senior Vice President Communications and member of SCA's Executive Management Team. Anders is succeeding Björn Lyngfelt, who will retire.

Overheating machinery is thought to be the cause of a minor fire at Sappi's Somerset Mill.

The Verso mill is in the process of idling this week in Wisconsin Rapids, but task force leaders say they have to continue to endeavor to find solutions for the future of the site.

Equipment used included five engines, two truck companies, four water tenders, and three command vehicles.

BillerudKorsnäs has made a valuation of approximately 36,000 hectares of forest assets in Sweden, of which approximately 18,000 hectares are productive forests, in which the biological assets are valued according to IAS41.

Emergency crews battled an overnight fire at the Corner Brook mill on Thursday night into early Friday morning, July 17.

Approximately 80 of Georgia-Pacific Muskogee Mill's workers are temporarily being laid off.

International Paper's Director of Marketing Thomas Ryan said that what they found on site in late June was actually not a noose at all.