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Progroup is maintaining its plan to build a new containerboard machine at the former Sappi site in Stockstadt, Germany. The company says commissioning could be delayed because of the challenging economic environment.…
Read the full article ↗Firefighters in Tallahassee, Florida, extinguished a fire involving a large pile of cardboard near Marpan Recycling. The Tallahassee Fire Department received the call shortly before 5 a.m., according to the supplied report. Responding crews found the burning material outside the facility, near a building.…
Read the full article ↗Central National Gottesman Inc. (CNG) said its Lindenmeyr Munroe division will acquire the business of Omaha Paper Company, a Nebraska-based distributor. The company, which recently rebranded as OPC Direct, distributes paper, packaging materials and equipment, wide-format products and JanSan…
Read the full article ↗Valmet has received an order to supply a complete board-making line to an unnamed customer in Asia. The reported scope includes stock preparation and a board machine running from the headboxes through to the reel and winders. Valmet says the line is intended to produce coated board.…
Read the full article ↗Bill 3235/26 would prohibit federal public bodies from purchasing products that contain pulp chemically bleached. The stated aim is to reduce water pollution. The bill is under review in the Chamber of Deputies. Deputy Fernanda Melchionna (PSOL-RS), the author, argues that bleaching is an aesthetic choice. It does not improve paper strength, she says, but releases pollutants that are hard to remove from the environment. She wants the state’s purchasing power used to push more sustainable production. The ban would cover printing paper, graphic materials, packaging such as board, boxes and bags, and hygiene products such as toilet paper, paper towels and napkins. It would also apply to materials used by contractors supplying services to the government. Products would be barred if elemental chlorine, chlorinated compounds such as chlorine dioxide or hypochlorites, or metal-removal agents such as EDTA and DTPA were used at any bleaching stage.…
Read the full article ↗Shipments of U.S. printing-writing papers fell 9% in September 2026 compared with September 2025, according to the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA). The supplied summary also reports that purchases of printing-writing papers rose 6% in August compared with August 2025. Inventories were down 6% from August 2026.…
Read the full article ↗Finland’s pulp and paper industry has reduced its fossil carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 85% since 1990, according to figures reported by the Finnish Forest Industries Federation. Waste sent to landfill has fallen by 97% compared with 1992, the supplied report says. The federation published the figures on October 12, 2026, in a review of the sector’s environmental performance.…
Read the full article ↗Arcadia Paper Mills has reactivated the historic Boise Cascades paper mill in St. Helens, Oregon, according to Tissue World Magazine. The company purchased the 30-acre site from the city of St.…
Read the full article ↗Cascades says the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved the company’s new 2035 greenhouse-gas reduction targets. The company committed to reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 67.2% by 2035, compared with 2019…
Read the full article ↗Brazil recycled 60.4% of paper in 2025, up 1.6 percentage points from the previous year, according to a study cited in reports published on October 19, 2026. The recycling rate for paper packaging was 66.9%, the reports said. The study was conducted by Empapel, the Brazilian Paper Packaging Association, and Ibá, the Brazilian Tree Industry.…
Read the full article ↗The governments of Canada and Ontario have committed up to C$50 million to support Hitachi Energy Canada’s planned electrical-grade pressboard manufacturing facility in London, Ontario. The federal government announced C$30 million in support on October 16, according to the supplied reports. That amount comprises C$20 million through the Strategic Response Fund and C$10 million through the Investments in Forest Industry Transformation program. Ontario committed up to a further C$20 million through the Invest Ontario Fund.…
Read the full article ↗China’s large-scale enterprises produced 112.69 million tonnes of machine-made paper and paperboard from January through August 2026, excluding processing of purchased base paper, representing a 5.65% year-over-year increase, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.…
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