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Metsä Fibre plans temporary layoffs at Finnish mills

The duration of temporary layoffs is up to 90 days.

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Rottneros cuts workforce by 26 positions

At the end of March, Rottneros announced a reduction corresponding to 47 positions. The notice applied to both Rottneros Mill and Group functions.

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Truvant to close one of its Wisconsin facilities, 74 employees impacted by layoffs

A packaging and labeling company in southwestern Wisconsin is preparing to shut down one of its facilities, citing shifting business conditions and resulting in layoffs affecting dozens of workers.

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Clearwater Paper Corporation Announces Executive Changes, Effective July 1, 2025

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.

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Metsä Fibre starts negotiations on possible temporary layoffs in Joutseno and Rauma

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

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Metsä Tissue completes change negotiations at Mänttä Mill in Finland

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

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Over 550 employees jobless after Georgia-Pacific announces closure of Emporia, Virginia facility

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.

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Tolko's Armstrong and White Valley operations will shut down for one week

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.

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UPM Plywood and the Industrial Union have signed the new collective labor agreement, strikes at the mills in Finland are ending

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

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Chillicothe's struggle is the story of small town Ohio

"The mill does not make products that are in high demand these days," said Jim Thompson, a Georgia-based paper industry consultant who grew up in Highland County, which is directly west of Chillicothe. "That's the basic problem." Thompson also said the site will be difficult to redevelop.

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Hood Container facility to close in June, laying off 60 workers

The Simpsonville location specializes in corrugated packaging solutions and warehousing services.

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International Paper shutters box plant near Hazleton, Pennsylvania

International Paper Company says it's restructuring and shutting down its Hazle Township box plant, among three other locations across the country.

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Pixelle Specialty Solutions Pauses Chillicothe Mill Closure

Senator Moreno announced this morning that the closure initially set for June 13th, 2025 has been delayed until the end of the 2025 calendar year. Congressman Taylor applauded Senator Moreno's advocacy and the resulting delay in the mill's closure.

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Seized Weyerhaeuser MDF oil pump causes fire

Columbia Falls firefighters responded to a fire in the hot oil room of the Weyerhaeuser MDF plant early Thursday morning, April 17.

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Two injured after paper machine at Ahlstrom Rhinelander mill experiences equipment failure

Two Rhinelander paper mill employees suffered minor injuries Wednesday evening, April 30, after a paper machine experienced an equipment failure, the mill's parent company, Ahlstrom, has confirmed.

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UPM Plywood starts change negotiations in Finland

The negotiations will affect approximately 100 senior salaried and directors working in UPM Plywood business organization, business functions and global functions in Finland.

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UPM: No solution in the labor dispute between UPM Plywood and the Industrial Union

Second proposal by the conciliator was accepted by UPM Plywood but rejected by the union.

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Graphic Packaging to shut down Ohio facility in June

This move is set to impact around 130 employees and is a strategic step in the company's broader plan to consolidate its recycled paperboard production.

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Heavy smoke pours from Richmond, Virginia Sonoco facility after machine catches fire

There was a massive fire department presence at the facility.

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Pregis closing facility in Tupelo, Mississippi

Pregis told its 40 or so employees this past week about the facility's closure.

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Smurfit Westrock will close North Portland, Oregon box plant, lay off 72

Seventy-two people working at Smurfit Westrock's North Portland cardboard box plant will lose their jobs when the company begins shutting down the facility in June.

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West Fraser Timber's Williams Lake mill to cut back to four-day work week

A West Fraser sawmill in Williams Lake will be reducing operations to a four-day work week due to log supply issues.

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Workers evacuate after fire at Smurfit Westrock facility

Officials say no injuries were reported.

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Appleton, Wisconsin paper and manufacturing company confirms employee death from workplace accident

An employee at an Appleton-based paper company died on Wednesday, March 12 after a workplace accident.

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Fire at Felix Schoeller Paper in Pulaski, New York

Crew says the fire was fully contained in about 80 minutes. No injuries were reported in the event of the fire.

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