Forestry Industry Briefing — October 24, 2026
Hivest Capital Partners has completed its acquisition of Sustana (Rolland lineage; owned by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities since December 2021), naming former Sustana leader Kev…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 23, 2026
Mercer International is preparing for a possible Chapter 11 filing that could come within weeks, most likely in Texas, Bloomberg reported Oct. 21; the company is withholding a US$2…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 22, 2026
Holmen's Q3 operating profit fell to SEK 549M (737M) on net sales of SEK 4,945M (5,327M), with the Iggesund maintenance stop costing ~SEK 150M, average wood prices down ~10% and bo…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 21, 2026
Singapore's Environment Council has put temporary restrictions on Asia Pulp & Paper's green label (earned after the 2015 haze) over fires at three supplier concessions in South Sum…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 20, 2026
Belarus has signed Decree No. 359 siting an 800,000 t/yr pulp mill at a former protein-feed plant in Novopolotsk (Vitebsk region), with funding expected from the Oman Investment Au…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 19, 2026
Asia Pulp & Paper, CVC Capital Partners and RGE are reportedly weighing separate bids for Essity's Consumer Tissue unit (Tork, Tempo, Cushelle), valued at ~€3B, with the sale proce…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 18, 2026
Mondi's Q3 trading update: price increases pushed through on containerboard, uncoated fine paper, kraft paper and paper bags as energy, wood (Central and Eastern Europe) and raw-ma…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 17, 2026
About 100 people rallied in Nackawic, N.B. on Oct. 16 ahead of AV Group's planned Nov. 4 shutdown of the AV Nackawic pulp mill (~350 jobs, 228 Unifor members); asked whether the mi…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 16, 2026
International Paper confirmed on Oct. 15 that it is evaluating unsolicited bids for its EMEA Packaging business (operating as DS Smith, 30 countries) in parallel with the planned s…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 15, 2026
Commerce's final results of the seventh softwood lumber review put the all-others countervailing duty at 14.11%, which with the 10.64% anti-dumping rate and the 10% Section 232 tar…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 14, 2026
Antalis (KPP Group) has signed a binding deal to buy OptiGroup's Papyrus paper-distribution businesses in 10 European markets (Germany, Switzerland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Pol…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 13, 2026
Cepi has published an EU ETS policy paper warning that cuts to free allowances could cost the pulp and paper sector about €1B a year by 2030. Ten of the eleven sector benchmarks fa…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 12, 2026
Ence has opened three projects worth more than €200M at its Navia pulp mill in Asturias, Spain. New multi-fuel lime-kiln burners replace fossil fuels with biomass, which Ence expec…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 11, 2026
SBTi has approved Cascades' updated 2035 climate targets. The company aims to cut combined Scope 1 and 2 emissions 67.2% from 2019 levels and Scope 3 emissions 41.3% across four ca…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 10, 2026
A Business in Vancouver investigation says Howe Sound Pulp & Paper in Port Mellon, B.C. raised output by almost a third in 2016, to 1,800 t/day, without the gas-collection upgrades…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 9, 2026
Norske Skog will spend up to ~NOK 850M (~US$89M) to rebuild PM6 at its Saugbrugs mill in Halden, Norway. PM6 has been idle since the April 2023 rockslide and will be able to make u…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 8, 2026
Billerud has launched a new generation of Billerud Flute with higher compression strength, made with new headbox technology at its Gruvön mill. In packaging tests it cut box weight…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 7, 2026
Brazilian pulp exporters fell after the first round of the presidential election. Suzano dropped 5.4% and Klabin 0.9%, while the main index hit a record, because the real jumped 4.…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 6, 2026
Packaging Corporation of America will close its full-line converting plant in Middletown, Ohio, on Dec. 1. About 91 jobs are affected. The work will move to larger plants, includin…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 5, 2026
Most of the 500+ workers at Nippon Dynawave Packaging's Longview, Wash. mill will return on Oct. 12, more than four months after the May 26 white-liquor tank collapse that killed 1…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 4, 2026
Mercer International did not pay ~US$25.8M of interest due Oct. 1 on its 12.875% senior notes due 2028 and is using the 30-day grace period. It is in advanced recapitalization talk…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 3, 2026
Norske Skog completed the NOK 770M sale of properties at its Saugbrugs mill in Halden, Norway, to state agency NND (Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning), which needs the land to deco…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 2, 2026
Sappi North America named Kirk Ross, 51, as President and CEO effective Jan. 1, 2027. He has been VP Manufacturing since July 2025 and earlier directed the Somerset Mill PM2 conver…
Forestry Industry Briefing — October 1, 2026
Arbex, the new tissue joint venture between Suzano (51%) and Kimberly-Clark (49%), plans to cut 37 jobs at its Millicent, South Australia mill. The mill dates from 1960 and has abo…