Major Announcements

Modern paper recycling facilities are under increasing pressure to improve process stability, reduce maintenance costs, and maximize fiber recovery while handling growing production volumes. For mills processing recycled fiber, bale handling before pulping can have a major impact on downstream efficiency.

The paper recycling industry is highly efficient at recovering, processing, and returning fiber to the manufacturing supply chain. Alongside those gains, one problem has grown more frequent and severe: catastrophic fires in stored recovered paper, old corrugated, and mixed fiber.

JBM Packaging Opens New Lebanon Facility to Expand Contract Packaging Capabilities.

The mill, which was formerly operated by Domtar, was idled back in 2024 after the company announced plans to close the facility.

Gunnar Eberhardt has been nominated as Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Venture. Stephen Blyth has been nominated as Chief Financial Officer of the Joint Venture. The nominations are conditional on receipt of all regulatory approvals and completion of the transaction.

UPM and Sappi have conditionally nominated the rest of the management team for the planned graphic paper joint venture, following the conditional nominations of Gunnar Eberhardt as the CEO and Stephen Blyth as the CFO earlier this month. The nominations are conditional on receipt of all regulatory approvals and completion of the transaction.

The mill that's the lifeblood of Nackawic will shut down in a little over a month, throwing 228 unionized employees out of work, says a labour leader.

Following a long and successful career as CFO and more than nine years as CFO and Executive Vice President at Essity, Fredrik Rystedt has informed the company of his wish to retire during 2027. The process of appointing a successor will begin immediately.

Fulton Systems, pulp and paper industry steam and condensate system specialists, is the OEM serving North America for over 100 years, and is the mill steam and condensate recovery system provider. The Fulton Systems' steam and condensate systems are engineered to optimize the energy transfer from the boiler to the dryer, re-use the spent steam, and maximize the condensate recovery. The system design include the required controls, thermocompressors, liquid recovery tanks, condensers, pumps, final control devises, and syphons.

Bales can differ in size, material quality and tying method. At the same time, stock-preparation areas are often compact, leaving limited room for new equipment or major line modifications. In this environment, the way bale wires are removed has a direct effect on operator safety, material flow and process reliability. To improve this first stage of production, Papierfabriek Doetinchem invested in two Cross Wrap Bale Dewiring Machines. The first was installed in 2019, followed by a second machine in 2023.

The distribution center will stock Sabert's broad range of molded fiber pulp, paper, and plastic food packaging solutions. This will support a wide range of customer needs.

Fulton Systems, pulp and paper industry steam and condensate system specialists, is the OEM serving North America for over 100 years, and is the mill steam and condensate recovery system provider. The Fulton Systems' steam and condensate systems are engineered to optimize the energy transfer from the boiler to the dryer, re-use the spent steam, and maximize the condensate recovery. The system design include the required controls, thermocompressors, liquid recovery tanks, condensers, pumps, final control devises, and syphons.

Mercer International Inc. has disclosed "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue as a going concern over the next 12 months, citing upcoming debt maturities, an expected covenant breach and weak operating results amid challenging pulp and wood-product markets.

The paper recycling industry is highly efficient at recovering, processing, and returning fiber to the manufacturing supply chain. Alongside those gains, one problem has grown more frequent and severe: catastrophic fires in stored recovered paper, old corrugated, and mixed fiber.

Nippon Paper Industries President Akira Sebe on Wednesday lamented the deaths of nine people in an accident in which a chimney collapsed at the company's plant in Kumamoto Prefecture following last week's major earthquake.

Investment by National New Markets Fund Will Create 90 Local Jobs

Since last year, Interfor and other lumber companies have been grappling with the impact of U.S. tariffs on softwood lumber.

This is PCA's third announced containerboard increase in 2026 so far, and other top producers have previously announced similar increases at the same times. All of the companies' previous hikes this year had been for $50 to $70 per ton.

Smurfit Westrock and International Paper announced containerboard price increases days after PCA's, which is being called unprecedented. And boxboard producers announced increases for SBS and FBB.

Nippon Dynawave Packaging has informed employees they will continue to receive pay through Oct. 11 following the deadly white liquor tank implosion at the Longview, Washington, pulp and paper mill on May 26 that has idled operations. The company previously had agreed to fully pay workers through Aug. 8, and the new agreement "provides much-needed stability" while local, state and federal investigations into the incident continue, said the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers in a statement.

New details were revealed in a Nippon Dynawave Packaging report that was sent to the Washington Department of Ecology. The report explains how employees at the paper mill in Longview responded to a massive chemical spill.

The company ships most of its products internationally, with 93% of its sales going to Asian markets, primarily China.

Memo says the operations will be moved from the company's current headquarters in Burnaby, B.C., to an office outside Atlanta.

At least 35 people are known to have died after the violent earthquake that struck Kumamoto on July 28, 2026.

Kimberly-Clark says it is developing a fiber with the promise to revolutionize paper-based products.