Recent Articles

Smurfit Westrock says it intends to prepare its closing St. Paul paper recycling facility site for sale and redevelopment "as soon as possible" following a planned closure this summer.

Two-Day Online Auction Scheduled for June 4-5, 2025, Featuring Extensive Paper Production Equipment from a 135-Year-Old Facility

Employees at the Cedar Springs Containerboard mill in Georgia were told today (May 14) that Georgia-Pacific plans to permanently close the operation later this year. Most positions will be eliminated by August 1, 2025. All jobs at the Cedar Springs mill will eventually be impacted.

The estimate of the final number of redundancies is 7 employees.

Operations generated $2.8bn in 2024 in three countries with eight mills and two conversion facilities.

As part of its strategic growth initiative, and commitment to the Rio Grande Valley, the company will make strategic investments to convert the current Edinburg, Tex. sheet plant into a warehouse, invest in its current facility in McAllen, Tex. to increase capabilities and shift its current Reynosa, Mexico operations to a new, more modern and capable facility that is currently under construction in Reynosa. The company will close its box plant and sheet plant in Edinburg, Tex.

Essity's Board of Directors has today appointed Ulrika Kolsrud as President and CEO. Ulrika Kolsrud will assume her position on June 1, 2025. Currently, she holds the position as President of Essity's business unit Health & Medical. She succeeds Magnus Groth, who earlier this year informed the Board that he will leave his position during the year.

The Vernon-based forest company said in an email they expect the downtime to begin as early as May 12 at the Armstrong plant and May 15 at White Valley.

Södra has reached an agreement with Robert Jan de Waard and Ronald Rijswijk to acquire all shares in the Dutch company Smartt Timber BV.

The strikes at the mills are ending and work will start immediately.

The negotiations involve the entire personnel of these production facilities, a total of approximately 465 people.

Employees at the Emporia Plywood mill in Emporia, Virginia, were told that Georgia-Pacific will permanently close the plant, effective May 2. Approximately 550 jobs will be impacted. Normal operations will cease May 2 - and the site will be permanently closed on July 1.

Clearwater Paper Corporation announced that on July 1, 2025, Michael S. Gadd will step down as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and will serve as a Senior Vice President of the Company.

Torres has served as President of Kimberly-Clark's North America business since October 2024, responsible for the Company's personal care, family care and professional businesses in North America.

I solemnly swear. Have you ever had to testify on behalf of your employer in a legal matter?

Ladies and gentlemen, the first class of inductees to the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame in Appleton, Wisconsin was inducted more than two decades ago in 1995, and today, more than 150 papermaking innovators and legends have been enshrined. This month, we profile the late John Frambach Stoveken, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011.

The PM40 closed Friday, 16 May 2025, at 5241.

Get the latest PM40 updates by listening to the weekly Nips show and the PM40 Daily Show on Pulp & Paper Radio International.

The PM40 closed 16 May 2025 down 9.5% from the 17 May 2024 level.

In this issue of Disconnected Comparisons, we evaluate Clearwater Paper and Boise Cascade.

Kimberly-Clark expects that its common stock will cease trading on the NYSE at market close on Thursday, May 29, 2025, and will commence trading on Nasdaq on Friday, May 30, 2025.

"Most of our customers that export, especially to the U.S., really don't know what the price of their goods is going to be," said Cristian Infante, who heads Copec's forestry arm Arauco, in a presentation. "So they're trying to buy as little as possible."

Operations generated $2.8bn in 2024 in three countries with eight mills and two conversion facilities.

Revenue was $546.1 million in Q1 2025 compared to $479.4 million in Q1 2024, an increase of $66.7 million or 13.9%.

Mondi PLC reported on Thursday its profitability was robust for the first quarter of 2025, crediting a rise in sales volumes and cost-control efforts.

Suzano, the world's largest pulp producer, announces its first quarter results for 2025 (1Q25) with record net revenue of R$11.6 billion, up 22% on the same quarter last year (1Q24). The result was driven by the exchange rates, increased pulp sales volumes from the new Ribas do Rio Pardo mill, higher paper volume and prices and the positive contribution from our paperboard mills recently acquired in the U.S.