Leading Stories

Asia Pulp & Paper completes over 400 dams to check forest fires in Indonesia

Nov 12, 2015 at 08:30 am by admin

INDONESIA (From The Business Times) -- Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) said on Thursday that it has completed over 400 dams to block plantation perimeter canals in APP suppliers'.... Read More

Maine paper industry eyes survival strategy

Nov 11, 2015 at 06:45 am by admin

PORTLAND, Maine (From The Bangor Daily News) -- One challenge looms large over the future of Maine's paper industry: all of the state's mills are different.The details of each.... Read More

Weyerhaeuser, Plum Creek to combine into one timber giant

Nov 09, 2015 at 05:00 am by admin

SEATTLE (From the Seattle Times) -- Weyerhaeuser is buying Plum Creek for $8.4 billion to form the nation's largest private owner of timberland, the Seattle-area firms announc.... Read More

Italian tissue maker bringing hundreds of jobs to Ohio

Nov 07, 2015 at 09:15 pm by admin

CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio (From the Columbus Dispatch) -- An Italian tissue manufacturer has chosen Pickaway County for a new facility.Sofidel Group disclosed a plan on Thursday to bu.... Read More

Fire at Georgia-Pacific facility

Nov 05, 2015 at 01:00 pm by admin

CROSSETT, Arkansas (From the Ashley County Ledger) -- It was reported this week that two local fire departments and Georgia-Pacific's Fire Brigade responded to a fire at the p.... Read More