| Thursday, January 11, 2024 - Member
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Weekly Spotlight
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From The Experts
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Market Roundup
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Pulp & Paper
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Containerboard/Packaging
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New Products
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Sustainability
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People
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TAPPI Career Wire
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TAPPI News
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Weekly Spotlight
Two Sides announced its newest member, the European Manufacturers Paper Honeycomb Association (EMPHA), the pan-European association for manufacturers of paper honeycomb core and paper honeycomb board products.
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The Public Investment Fund (PIF) has announced the completion of a deal to invest in the Middle East Paper Company (MEPCO), a leading manufacturer specialized in producing and recycling paper-based products in the Middle East and North Africa. PIF has acquired a 23.08% stake in MEPCO by way of a capital increase and subscription to new shares.
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Sofidel, the world’s leading manufacturer of paper for hygienic and domestic use, is once again accelerating its growth path in the United States.
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The Quinnesec mill has been re-certified as an Occupational Safety and Health Administration Star facility under the Michigan Voluntary Protection Program (MVPP), a status that has been held by the mill since 2001.
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From The Experts
By Chaz Miller, Waste 360
Markets have been quite quirky this year as I noted in my last column. Paper prices continue to go up in most parts of the country. Even though plastic prices are showing some signs of life, the four curbside plastics, PET, both HDPEs and polypropylene, remain in the doldrums. Recycling prices normally weaken in winter s demand slows down.
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Market Roundup
Ox Industries announced a price increase of $50 per ton for all grades of uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) and a minimum price increase of 6% on all tube and core and protective packaging products.
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Greif, Inc. announced it is implementing a $40 to $70 per short ton increase for all grades of uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) and a minimum 6.0 percent increase on all tube and core and protective packaging products.
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Pulp & Paper
BTG Group shared in a recent press statement that it is set to acquire FITNIR Analyzers.
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Sofidel announced the acquisition of ST Paper's tissue mill in Duluth, Minnesota.
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AV Terrace Bay announced the temporary idling of its pulp operations in Terrace Bay, Ontario, Canada, with immediate effect.
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The ecological transformation project of the Grand-Couronne paper manufacturing site in France, formerly Chapelle-Darblay, has reached a new stage in its implementation with the takeover of the operational management of the site by Fiber Excellence.
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Containerboard/Packaging
Green Bay Packaging's paper mill on Quincy Street in Green Bay. It's the first new mill built in Wisconsin in decades.
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Hood Container Corporation announced that it has acquired the corrugated packaging business of Sumter Packaging Corporation based in Sumter, South Carolina. This includes all of Sumter's design, manufacturing, assembly and fulfillment operations in Sumter, SC, as well as the business manufactured and serviced from the Statesville, North Carolina facility.
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The International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF) announced that Green Bay Packaging, longtime supporter, has pledged an additional $100,000 to support the foundation's programs and services.
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New Products
PulPac, a leader in dry molding technology, announces the latest addition to its “Highway Products”: the Dry Molded Fiber Phone Tray Insert. It is now offered to producers and represents another stride towards PulPac’s commitment to providing cost-effective, environmentally responsibly produced packaging alternatives.
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Sustainability
Pulp mill waste heading for a landfill could have a second life as an organic fertilizer.
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Kemira and IFF announced the next step towards the commercialization of the Designed Enzymatic Biomaterial (“DEB”) platform, a cutting-edge biotechnology process that enables production of new renewable polymers with enzymatic polymerization.
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People
Metsä Group announced that Pekka Kittilä has been appointed VP, Mill Manager of Metsä Fibre's new Kemi bioproduct mill in Finland, effective 1 February 2024. Kittilä previously served as Technical Director of the bioproduct mill project.
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Graphic Packaging Holding Company has named Mark Connelly as Senior Vice President, Investor Strategy and Development. This new role augments Graphic Packaging's outreach capability with an aim to expand and diversify the company's investor network globally.
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The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) has promoted Emily Leonczyk to Executive Director and Vice President. A servant leader with a strong business and nonprofit association management career — including five years in the paperboard industry — Leonczyk will oversee PPC's operations while facilitating stakeholder collaboration and driving strategic initiatives.
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TAPPI Career Wire
City of Castle Pines, Colorado Castle Pines, Colorado
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Knoxville Utilities Board Knoxville, Tennessee
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Lamp Rynearson Kansas City, Missouri
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The Baker Company Sanford, Maine
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V3 Companies Indianapolis, Indiana
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TAPPI News
TAPPI’s 2023 Nominating Committee presents the 2024 slate of candidates for Directors on the TAPPI Board.
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Hear from Ogletree Deakins Attorney Eric Hobbs on planned OSHA implementations in 2024
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