Operations News

Two people were hurt at a LSC Communications facility and sent to the hospital.

Western Forest Products Inc. ("Western") announced a temporary curtailment at its Ladysmith sawmill in Canada in part due to action taken by the United Steelworkers Local 1-1937 ("USW") which has impeded log supply to the mill.

A northwest Louisiana coroner says a 43-year-old man has died of injuries from an industrial explosion late last month.

A worker at Interfor Corp.'s Gilchrist sawmill, in northern Klamath County, died following injuries sustained after a fall while he was on the job, according to Andrew Horahan, vice president of western operations at Interfor.

These funds will be used to secure additional wood fibre inventory for the Fortress Specialty Cellulose mill (the "FSC Mill").

A man was airlifted to the hospital after being burned at International Paper in Cantonment.

Lincoln Parish Sheriff deputies and firefighters responded to an explosion call at the Roseburg Forest Products Plant in Simsboro.

Port Hawkesbury Paper did not lose any production time despite a fire in one of its massive wood silos last month, a company official says.

Catalyst Powell River has announced a temporary 17-day curtailment of its paper operations in Powell River.

A maintenance employee with Sonoco of Hartsville is in the hospital Wednesday (3 July) with a severe arm injury after being hurt on the job, according to Sonoco Director of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations Brian Risinger.

An Amsterdam-based printing company is cutting 88 jobs in Queensbury and an Atlanta-based packaging company is cutting 57 jobs in Amsterdam, state regulatory notices indicate.

This is due to a significant deterioration in market conditions, in combination with fibre supply constraints and higher fibre costs resulting from recent sawmill curtailments across the BC industry.

Two firefighters had to be rushed to hospital after working to put out a blaze at Port Hawkesbury Paper in Point Tupper, N.S.

The funding was awarded to projects including process development in the pulp industry, recycling textiles and controlling pulpwood flows.

Stora Enso Oyj is working to shield profits from chillier trade winds blowing in the global economy, according to Chief Executive Officer Karl-Henrik Sundstrom.

A logger was injured in a logging accident Tuesday (16 June) on private timberland east of Eugene.

Trade union representatives have welcomed talks with a management team to acquire Arjowiggins Fine Papers' Stoneywood and Chartham mills after negotiations with a preferred bidder broke down earlier this month.

McKinley Paper Co. has reached agreement with the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers Local 155 on a new labor deal that will be in effect once McKinley opens its Ediz Hook paper mill, company and union officials said earlier this month.

Canfor Pulp Products Inc. announced it will be temporarily curtailing operations at its BCTMP mill in Taylor, British Columbia (BC) from June 29 through August 5, 2019, due to a combination of weaker market conditions and short-term fibre constraints resulting from industry-wide sawmill curtailments in the BC Interior.

Officials say they can't determine what caused a massive blaze that destroyed a landmark paper mill in northern New Jersey and toppled its iconic sign earlier this year.

Packaging products maker DS Smith Plc said on Thursday that it had made plans for contingency stocking of spare parts as it readies for Britain's planned exit from the European Union, but expected disruption to its operations to be "relatively contained".

Madisonville Fire Department crews were called out 2:24 p.m. May 31 to Ahlstrom-Munksjo.

Firefighters responded to a two-alarm fire at Monadnock Paper Mills in Bennington Thursday morning (June 6) around 9:45 a.m.

A fire that started in the blower room at Verso Corp. on Monday didn't affect the company's operations, according to the fire chief.