According to the Orange County Register, Kimberly-Clark intends to shutter its plant here as part of a restructuring it announced last month, the paper products giant has confirmed. The plant, which opened in 1956, employs 330 people. "Kimberly-Clark has informed employees at the Fullerton manufacturing facility of its proposed plan to close this facility," company spokesperson Terry Balluck said in an email.

According to The Recorder, Seaman Paper Company is one step closer to building a new warehouse after the Orange Planning Board voted to approve the company’s project application — contingent upon town Water Department approval of the proposed water utility design. Company president George D. Jones was present with Fitchburg-based engineer Sean Pepper and others at the meeting to review the application for a proposed 165,000-ft2 warehouse, with associated access, parking, drainage and landscaping. The project would include a proposed new septic system and connection to Orange’s water system.

According to the Lewiston Tribune, Clearwater Paper expects to permanently eliminate as many as 100 union jobs this spring from its staff of 1,400 in Lewiston. Some of the cuts - between 80 and 100 positions - will be through attrition or by not filling open slots, said Clearwater Paper spokeswoman Shannon Myers. The downsizing is tentatively scheduled to start in May and will involve the 500-member staff of the tissue division, Myers said.

China’s Shantou Piaohe Paper has kicked off trial production on a new 12,000-tonne/yr tissue machine at its sole mill in Shantou city, Guangdong province. The unit, supplied by Chinese supplier Baotuo Paper Machinery Engineering, has a trim width of 2.86 m and a design speed of 800 m/min. Its startup was initially scheduled for August last year. The firm did not explain the delay. An identical tissue line was commissioned at the site in December 2014.