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Providing a direct replacement to plastic, the packaging has fit for purpose barrier properties to protect the products while supporting Veetee's goals to reduce plastic.

With five products included in the new classification, LP continues to deliver resiliency, performance and sustainability in the building products industry.

As reported to the 2023 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), RRD's absolute GHG emissions reduction target of 25% is a total reduction of over 43,000 metric tons of CO2e.

Sustainable consumer packaging leader makes progress toward a renewable future.

Ahlstrom BioProtect™ is a one source, sustainable, nonwoven solution for laundry care, incorporating patent pending technology to protect laundry from color run during the wash cycle.

Certified as one of the Newsweek 2023 Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces and one of the Fortune Most Admired Companies™ for 2023.

Greif Ranked Among 100 U.S. Companies for Outstanding Employee Sentiment and Satisfaction.

UPM Specialty Papers now offers a compostable solution for paper-based food stickers. UPM LabelCoatTM and UPM LabelCoatTM Prime label face papers are certified as both industrially (EN13432:2000) and home compostable (NFT51-800:2015), helping customers and brand owners meet EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation proposal (PPWR) requirements.

Designed for environmentally conscious consumers, GlatPure™ offers a toolbox of innovative solutions that elevate sustainability without compromising product performance.

Coca-Cola HBC Austria and Mondi partnered to create an innovative paper sleeve that tightly wraps and secures bottle bundles during transit.

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Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

Ms. Khanna is currently Executive Vice President and Chief Business Leader, Personal Health, for Royal Philips, a health technology company, a position she has held since 2020, while serving on the company's Executive Committee.

Canfor Corporation will be investing approximately $200 million to build a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Houston, British Columbia, Canada. This low cost, high efficiency facility will have an annual production capacity of approximately 350 million board feet.

Governor Andy Beshear joined officials with Pratt Industries in Henderson to officially open the company's new $500M paper mill and box plant, which will create jobs across two facilities.

Hong Kong-based tissue and diaper maker Vinda International held management presentations in the last week for potential buyers of a majority stake owned by Sweden's Essity, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

The 127,000 sq. ft. millwork facility is scheduled to be complete in the fourth quarter of 2023 and is expected to begin production shortly after the first of the year.

Fire crews across Northern Michigan were responding to a major fire near the Great Lakes Tissue Co. mill in Cheboygan on Wednesday, Sept. 13.

To meet the growing demand in the U.S., the Sofidel tissue paper group, well-known for its Regina, Nicky and customer brands, is further strengthening its production capacity with a $185 million investment in its integrated plant in Circleville, Ohio.

A paper mill near Escanaba will be temporarily laying off an unknown number of employees during a planned maintenance outage beginning the first week of October. Billerud said it is opting to idle its Escanaba Mill's paper machines during this outage due to a low demand for paper and inventory destocking. The company said it intends to take an additional week of market-related downtime following the maintenance to balance production with customer needs.

Prinzhorn Group's Hamburger Recycling has signed a contract covering the takeover of the Italian recycling company Eurocart, together with its affiliated company Berica Recuperi. The recovered paper specialist located in Vicenza operates with three logistic centers, 130 employees and has the capacity to collect and process 239,000 tons of paper for recycling and other secondary raw materials annually.

Niklas Beyes is appointed CFO and a member of Ahlstrom's Executive Management Team as of September 15, 2023. Current CFO Jorn P. Jensen will leave Ahlstrom on September 15 to pursue new opportunities outside the company.

Robotic equipment cleans recovery boiler spouts without manual intervention.

Etteplan and Stora Enso have made an agreement on Stora Enso's Sunila pulp mill Technology and Investments department transfer to Etteplan. The agreement covers the transfer of 10 Stora Enso project managers and engineers to Etteplan as of September 18, 2023. The transfer is related to Stora Enso's decision to close the production of pulp at Sunila Mill in Kotka, Finland by the end of 2023.

Pratt Industries Inc. has pledged to create more than 200 new jobs while investing $32 million into a new Dayton-area facility.