Recent Articles

The global food packaging industry is setting ambitious targets to make its operations more sustainable, working on designing for circularity across systems and products. However, lasting solutions need cooperation between different contributors.

Sappi North America announces a transactional price increase of 3.5% to 5% on new and unconfirmed orders that book with a confirmed delivery date on or after Monday, January 4, 2021 on the following products: • McCoy Web • Opus Web • Somerset Web • Flo Web.

Branded, wood fibre-based, easy-to-recycle cups manufactured from Kotkamills' board are now used by Bentley Suomi.

Sun Chemical has signed up to the Digital Watermarks Initiative HolyGrail 2.0, facilitated by AIM, the European Brands Association.

Kotkamills will continue as the main partner of the KooKoo ice hockey team also in the next league season. The partners have agreed to exercise the agreement's option year for 2021-2022. KooKoo is pursuing a completely plastic-free game event, and the agreement means a big step closer to realising that goal.

Kimberly-Clark announced that it has earned a 2020 SmartWay® Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for leadership in environmentally responsible shipping. The award recognizes companies for using a range of fuel-saving strategies in their shipping and freight delivery services that reduce transportation emissions and make freight delivery more sustainable.

Sonoco ThermoSafe, a unit of Sonoco and the leading global provider of temperature assurance packaging for life sciences and healthcare, announced the launch of its new EOS™ line of fully curbside recyclable temperature controlled packaging in the U.S.

WCP Solutions announced that their WCP Sacramento location is officially franchised for the full line of Domtar Paper products. Customers in the region can now order Domtar products through their WCP account manager or with the local customer service team. Domtar's offering was previously only available in other WCP markets.

Quad/Graphics, Inc. announced the launch of its Quad Direct Marketing Exchange ™ (QDMX) - a platform that delivers entirely personalized direct marketing campaigns at a fraction of the cost and at greater speed to market.

Sonoco ThermoSafe, a unit of Sonoco and the leading global provider of temperature assurance packaging for life sciences and healthcare, announced that AirBridge Cargo Airlines, a unit of Volga-Dnepr Group, has signed a Master Lease Agreement (MLA) to offer ThermoSafe's new Pegasus ULD™ bulk temperature controlled container directly to its clients.

Södra has successfully added 20% used textiles to its OnceMore® dissolving pulp. The achievement is a significant step towards more sustainable solutions for the fashion industry.

Sappi Dissolving Pulp has partnered with Birla Cellulose, one of the leading viscose manufacturers in the textile value chain, to provide a forest-to-garment traceability solution for brand owners.

Mars, Incorporated has announced it will incorporate recycled polypropylene plastic into the primary packaging for some of its popular pet food brands. For Mars, this marks an important step in its efforts to reduce virgin plastics use across its packaging portfolio, to do its part to build a circular economy where no packaging becomes waste.

Reported insider trading since the last issue of PaperMoney.

Pixelle Specialty Solutions announced Wednesday, Oct. 28, it would reduce its workforce by 67 more employees in connection with an April 15 explosion of a pulp digester, Androscoggin Mill Manager Eric Hanson said in a news release.

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) has sent a letter to the Verso Corporation Board of Directors to either run the mill or sell it, for the sake of their employees.

The Kalispel Tribe's opening offer to purchase the recently shuttered Ponderay Newsprint Co. mill in Usk was turned down this month, leaving the fate of the bankrupt facility in Pend Oreille County uncertain.

Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced that a long-time paper mill in McKinley County will receive economic assistance from the state so it can install new equipment and remain in business for the next decade, retaining at least 125 well-paying jobs.

ND Paper, a leading North American producer of pulp, paper, and paper-based packaging, is implementing a series of transformations at its Rumford Division to further expand into packaging grades.

ePost Global LLC, a tech-enabled global shipping solutions provider, announced it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the International Mail and Parcel Logistics Business ("International Logistics") from R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (RRD). ePost Global will continue to provide cost-effective, global delivery solutions to its clients.

CMPC, through its subsidiary CMPC Celulose Riograndense Ltda., entered into a purchase agreement with Florestas do Sul Agroflorestal Ltda. in relation to the equity interest issued by a newly incorporated subsidiary of Florestas do Sul Agroflorestal Ltda. that will own all the timber assets currently owned by Florestas do Sul Agroflorestal Ltda.

Klabin acquired the units producing corrugated board and paper for packaging from International Paper in Brazil in March.

VPK Group came to an agreement with COPI Holding to buy Encase Ltd, manufacturer and designer of corrugated cardboard packaging. Encase Ltd operates two integrated corrugated packaging plants in England and one sheet plant in Scotland. It is VPK's intention to merge Encase with its UK corrugated operations, formerly known as Rigid.

After months of exploring possibilities, Verso Corp. announced Wednesday it would slow down its effort to find a buyer for the Wisconsin Rapids mill.