Operations News

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.

Finnish Forest Industries Federation said on Wednesday it would hold a 6-day lock-out from Dec. 12, closing half of the Nordic country's sawmills and plywood factories, aiming to put pressure on unions in halted pay negotiations.

McKinley Paper Co. is targeting mid-January for beginning production at its 99-year-old Ediz Hook mill with about 100 workers after nearly three years of industrial dormancy at the site and lost revenue for the city of Port Angeles.

Hsu, 55, succeeds Thomas J. Falk, who plans to retire from the company and the Board at the end of the year after serving as Chairman for the past 16 years.

Roseburg Forest Products is laying off about 30 employees from its Dillard plant because of a downturn in the North American plywood market.

UPM Raflatac has opened a new labelstock slitting and distribution terminal in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

A longtime Gorham Paper and Tissue employee has died from injuries he received in an accident at the paper mill four weeks ago.

Authorities have identified a worker who died in an accident at a woodyard adjacent to a Lowndes County paper mill.

The truck failed to negotiate a corner just before the bridge, which carries traffic over the Androscoggin River. The rig straddled the guardrail and its load of sawdust spilled down an embankment.

Domtar crews spent the better part of Thursday (Nov. 14) ensuring a hog pile fire was out.

Several fire departments responded to a fire at a Louisiana-Pacific Corporation facility south of Hanceville Saturday afternoon, Nov. 2.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation is investing $20 million to expand the capacity of its Corinth nonwovens line, adding 25 jobs in the process.

Deputies said when they arrived, they found the log truck which had gone downhill after leaving the logging road.

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation announced the appointment of Derek Doyle to vice president, controller and chief accounting officer effective immediately.

Tolko Industries says it will be shutting down operations across B.C. for two weeks over the holiday season due to low lumber prices and high log costs.

The employee consultation processes have now been completed. Paper machine 2 in Rauma will be permanently closed on 6 November 2019.