Operations News

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.

The newly formed Willamette Falls Paper Co. quietly restarted two months ago and is now trying out new classes of paper made from pulp and agricultural waste instead of wood.

There were no injuries in a fire at the Quad/Graphics plant in Sussex Thursday, Oct. 24, though five workers were evaluated and released.

Cascades Inc. announces that it will permanently close tissue converting operations at its Waterford, New York and Kingman, Arizona plants, effective March 27, 2020.

The cause of a conveyor belt fire at the WestRock Paper Mill in West Point is under investigation.

Greif, Inc. announced that it is ceasing operations at its Number 1 paperboard machine at the Mobile Paperboard Mill in Mobile, Alabama.

Huhtamaki celebrated the inauguration of its newest fiber packaging line in Invanteevka, Russia.

An Irving-owned sawmill in northwestern New Brunswick will close on Nov. 1, resulting in the loss of 65 jobs.

The director of strategy for Global Win Capital, the subsidiary of Shanying International that owns Phoenix Paper, said it has stalled production at the paper mill until around Nov. 11.

Resolute Forest Products says multiple factors are contributing to the ongoing shutdown of its sawmill at Ignace.

Mark Rhodes, president of United Steelworkers Local 712, said that 99.6 percent of workers opposed the contract, with 85 percent of members voting.