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…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 30, 2026
Washington state Sen. Jeff Wilson (R-Longview) is drafting a bill that would require outside inspection and certification of above-ground chemical tanks at paper mills. Ecology wou…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 29, 2026
Cepi has named Francesca Stevens Director General, effective Sept. 28, succeeding Jori Ringman (DG since 2019); she was Secretary General of packaging lobby EUROPEN since 2020 and…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 28, 2026
AF&PA's August Printing-Writing report shows total US printing-writing paper shipments down 7% y/y, with inventories up 1% from July; July net imports rose 26% y/y (uncoated freesh…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 27, 2026
Sappi Europe will raise wet-glue label paper prices from Nov. 1 — +€37/t on Parade Label Pro and +€97/t on Parade Label WS wet-strength — citing rising input costs it says efficien…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 26, 2026
Update: the European Commission cleared M&G Investment Management and Arini Capital's joint control of Reno de Medici on Sept. 25 under the simplified merger procedure, replacing A…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 25, 2026
Smurfit Westrock will buy CMPC's Chilean containerboard and corrugated business for US$420M (under 6x post-synergy adjusted EBITDA, funded from existing liquidity): a ~250,000 tpy…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 24, 2026
Suzano announced (Sept. 22) October hardwood pulp increases of US$50/t in the Americas and Europe (European list to ~US$1,360/t) and US$20/t in Asia (~US$590–600/t), citing Chinese…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 23, 2026
The US and North Carolina sued Domtar Paper Company (filed Sept. 16) over dioxin, furan and mercury contamination from the former Weyerhaeuser Plymouth wood-treating Superfund site…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 22, 2026
The European Commission is set to block the €1.42B UPM–Sappi joint venture that would combine their European graphic-paper businesses into the region's largest coated-paper produce…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 21, 2026
Domtar's idled Coosa Pines, Alabama pulp mill could cost the region nearly $7B in lost economic activity over ten years, per a forester/adviser analysis reported by the WSJ; the Ma…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 20, 2026
Update: AV Group now says its Atholville, N.B. dissolving-pulp mill (210 Unifor members) faces "the same external challenges" as Nackawic and is examining options to keep it from a…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 19, 2026
Unifor members ratified a new four-year Eastern Canada pulp and paper pattern agreement with Domtar (May 1, 2026–April 30, 2030): 2.5% annual raises for 10% cumulative, plus an att…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 18, 2026
AV Group NB will "temporarily idle" its Nackawic, N.B. dissolving-pulp mill (~190,000 tpa, ~57% of AVNB's Canadian capacity) around Nov. 4, citing market conditions; ~350–400 worke…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 17, 2026
B.C. cut its stumpage revenue forecast 11% to C$13.55/m³ (from C$15.24 in the February budget), trimming forest revenue by $49M to $472M for the year; Finance Minister Josie Osborn…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 16, 2026
Update: UPM and Sappi have filled out the leadership of their planned European graphic-paper JV — Marco Eikelenboom (Sappi Europe CEO) as SVP Sales & Marketing, Antti Hermonen (UPM…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 15, 2026
Timberlink Australia & New Zealand named Sarah Bellman CEO effective Nov. 16, succeeding Paul O'Keefe, who retires in mid-December; Bellman joins from Hanson Australia / Heidelberg…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 14, 2026
Sappi Europe is raising prices 5–7% across its entire woodfree coated (WFC) range, effective Oct. 12 for new orders, citing "continued escalation of costs across the supply chain"…