Operations News

Officials said a large part of the warehouse was filled with smoke when crews arrived, and a paper converting machine was on fire. Officials said firefighters quickly extinguished the fire and ventilated the warehouse.

Heading west on Highway 5 through Little Falls was cut off for a while Saturday afternoon, Jan. 11, after the road was closed due to reports of smoke at the Twin Rivers mill.

Georgia-Pacific announced Monday, Dec. 13, that it is permanently closing its Cuba facility.

A packaging firm has announced plans to close two facilities, which could lead to the loss of up to 208 jobs.

According to a release sent by Ontario's Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development, the worker was using a loader to move bundles of wood when the incident happened.

Clearwater Paper Corporation announced the ratification of its labor contracts with the United Steelworkers and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at its Lewiston, Idaho facility.

WestRock recently filed a notice with the state announcing it is closing one of its facilities in Edwardsville, affecting 68 people.

Clearwater Paper and the United Steelworkers Local 712 have reached a tentative agreement that will next go to union members, who will vote to ratify or reject the contract early this month.

Summerville Fire and Rescue responded to a kiln fire at WestRock Packaging Solutions on Tuesday, Dec. 17.

Columbia Falls firefighters responded fire at the Weyerhaeuser medium-density fiberboard (MDF) plant on line two at about 4 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15.

The International Paper facility in the Springhill-Cullen area is up and running again Tuesday, Dec. 24 after a small fire.

The former professional hockey player from Grand Rapids who was badly injured while on the job at UPM Blandin, a Grand Rapids paper mill, died Tuesday morning, Dec. 17.

A contractor has died following an industrial accident at Graphic Packaging in West Monroe on Wednesday, Dec. 18.

The mill is planning to reopen sometime in January, Rob Baron, a president and the chief executive officer of Marcal Paper said in a statement on Monday. He did not provide a specific opening date, but said a merger with Pennsylvania-based Nittany Paper made the reopening possible.

The investment value is EUR 20 million and the new machinery is scheduled to start up during autumn 2021. The annual production capacity of Metsä Board Kyro mill is 190,000 tonnes.

Sappi North America, Inc. announced the promotion of Tom Radovich to Managing Director of Sappi North America's Cloquet Mill in Minnesota, effective as of Dec. 1, 2019.

Members of the United Steelworkers (USW) union approved a new four-year master agreement with WestRock that sets standards for wages, benefits and working conditions for more than 9,400 union workers at 62 facilities across 26 U.S. states.

An explosion at Georgia Pacific's Clarendon plant injured one person Monday afternoon (Dec. 9).

A fire was reported at a Graphic Packaging facility in Kenton, Ohio early Dec. 3.

Crews responded to a fire at ST Tissue Facility's Fiber Recycling Plant Friday morning (Dec. 6).

A former professional hockey player from Grand Rapids, Scot Kleinendorst, 59, was badly injured and fighting for his life following a heavy machinery accident at the town's paper mill, UPM Blandin, over the weekend earlier this month.

Georgia Pacific's Diboll lumber plant is celebrating 125 years of operation.

Stora Enso is merging its container board business in the Packaging Solutions division with the Consumer Board division, creating a new Packaging Materials division.

Smurfit Kappa Group PLC on Friday said Christel Borie retired from her position as non-executive director on Thursday.

The Ministry of Labour is investigating an industrial accident at Resolute Forest Products' Thunder Bay sawmill.