The marketing, sales and purchasing game has more dance steps than the latest Argentine Tango. It is this way because there are humans involved and they all come from different backgrounds. For clarification, here I am talking about the purchasing initiated by major pulp and paper companies, not the selling of their products.

The PM40 closed Friday, 1 November 2024, at 5830.

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In this issue of Disconnected Comparisons, we evaluate Mativ and Kimberly-Clark.

The PM40 closed 1 November 2024 up 17.5% from the 3 November 2023 level.

Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

In this special episode, we talk with Stein Larsen, CEO NOREXECO ASA.

Essity disputes the demand.

Additionally, the Board and Paper Mills business unit will implement temporary layoffs lasting up to 90 days during the first half of 2025.

In addition to having its safest year ever, more than 94% of Amcor's flexible packaging portfolio by area had a recycle-ready solution available, and 95% of rigid packaging by weight was recyclable in practice and at scale.

What part of healthcare do you think is properly priced?

Stora Enso confirmed that it postponed its weekly supplier payments for a one-week period in both June and September 2024.

The company's announcement on Iowa's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, website states the Waukee facility will shut down Jan. 10, idling 88 workers.

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Incidents in 2024: We are updating this list as these happen in the pulp, paper and forest products industry

We are updating this list as these happen in the pulp, paper and forest products industry

We are updating this list as these happen in the pulp, paper and forest products industry

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Pulp and Paper Manufacturers report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission

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Quad/Graphics, Inc., a global marketing experience (MX) company, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the majority of its European operations for €41 million (approximately $45 million) to Germany-based entrepreneurial private capital investment manager Capmont GmbH.

In May, Stein filed the lawsuit against the mill's Illinois-based corporate owner, arguing Pactiv Evergreen violated the terms of the incentives grant and calling for the $12 million in state funds to be returned. The company shuttered the mill in May 2023 resulting in hundreds of layoffs.

This 30,000-square-foot facility extends service to Eastern Canadian customers and complements an existing network of three factories and two other terminals that collectively service North America-based customers.

Cascades Inc. announces organizational changes designed to support the Company's strategic growth by strengthening alignment, increasing agility, improving execution and accelerating decision making within the organization. These changes will take effect on November 11.

UPM Specialty Papers and Michelman have co-created three cutting edge solutions that are designed to allow brand owners to replace multi-material, non-recyclable packaging with paper-based alternatives that meet their requirements for food contact and recyclability.

UPM, Selenis and Bormioli Pharma introduce the world's first pharmaceutical bottle partially made with wood-based plastics