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The incident resulted in the death of one person, a 20-year old student at the University of Maine who was participating in an internship at the facility, and injured nine other workers, two of them seriously. One of the workers remains hospitalized.

Arctic Paper S.A. disclosed that Nasdaq Stockholm's Disciplinary Committee has levied a SEK 780,000 contractual penalty after finding its late-2024 and early-2025 current reports improperly published in violation of the exchange's rulebook and the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

A state appeals court rejected an attempt by members of the Appvion Employee Stock Ownership Plan to recover damages after a bankruptcy filing.

The Nottingham company - now part of the Smurfit Westrock firm - pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 8(1)(a) and (c) of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998.

Both face burglary charges.

According to an arrest warrant, Allen allegedly embezzled $53,852 from the company.

Smurfit Westrock one of several cardboard box makers being sued in Milan court by hundreds of firms.

The funds that have brought an action against Essity in the English courts regarding bond loans issued by the company have chosen to discontinue their action. The case is therefore closed.

Mativ finalized a January 8 separation deal with ex-CFO Weitzel.

Stora Enso continues to be late with its invoice payments to subcontractors, and to a greater extent than when Dagens industri made its revelation last fall.

Unifor members at the now-shuttered Northern Pulp mill in Pictou, Nova Scotia, will see their pension fund made whole and fully wound up as the company's woodland assets secures a buyer at auction for $235 million.

The $7,000 fine was documented in October 2025, though state regulators said the mill later demonstrated compliance with an air pollutant limit.

Workers claim Ahlstrom shaved time and miscalculated overtime, sparking a class action in Wisconsin.

A new lawsuit is accusing the Kimberly-Clark Corp., a producer of paper goods for household brands such as Huggies, Kleenex and Scott, of contaminating local water sources, including the Housatonic River, with dangerous "forever chemicals" over the course of decades.

Separately, this week other defendants filed individual and collective motions to dismiss the containerboard price collusion lawsuit.

According to court documents, the tragic incident occurred on July 1, 2025, when Akayinode drove to her job at the USG Corporation mineral plant in Galena Park, a suburb of Houston, leaving her daughter inside the vehicle for more than eight hours.

The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco, names Novolex Holdings, Inteplast Group Corp. and Mettler Packaging and alleges that they unlawfully sold and distributed plastic bags. The suit also accuses them of producing misleading environmental marketing materials, failing to substantiate environmental marketing claims and engaging in untrue or misleading advertising. And the lawsuit accuses the companies of unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business practices.

Nippon Dynawave Packaging says it is working to appeal a canceled U.S. Department of Energy grant worth more than $46 million to help the Longview plant switch to an emerging filtration technology to reduce the energy used in its production process.

Graphic Packaging International was voluntarily dismissed from the case.

The Michigan Attorney General's Office announced it has reached two settlements with current and past owners of a paper mill in White Pigeon.

We hereby announce that our Australian consolidated subsidiary, Paper Australia Pty Ltd ("Opal") has today commenced legal proceedings against the Victorian Government in the Supreme Court of Victoria following the Government's breach of the Wood Pulp Agreement.

After leaks in pipes at the Port Townsend Paper Company (PTPC) spilled wastewater into Port Townsend Bay on two occasions earlier this year, the Washington Department of Ecology has fined the mill a total of $20,000 for the two water quality violations.

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) is calling on the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to exempt Brazilian bleached eucalyptus kraft pulp (HTS code: 4703.29) from potential Section 301 tariffs, arguing that the material is indispensable to the U.S. tissue industry and cannot be sourced domestically at commercial scale. The group submitted its formal comments as part of USTR's ongoing investigation into Brazil's trade practices.

The class-action antitrust lawsuit that a customer brought against eight of the largest containerboard producers in the United States is progressing. Industry observers and analysts are keeping tabs on whether the companies in question try for another price increase this year despite the lawsuit.

The 'high-risk' violation involved an unguarded hydraulic system that pumps toxic chemicals created in the pulping process.