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"…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 13, 2026
At the Jefferies industrials conference, International Paper CEO Andy Silvernail said consumer inflation has cost roughly five points of aggregate box demand over 2.5 years and he…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 12, 2026
German cartonboard maker Tullau Pappen Karl Kurz has filed for insolvency after nearly 150 years — the Heilbronn court has opened preliminary proceedings with Tibor Braun as provis…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 11, 2026
Mercer has extended the maintenance shutdown at its Rosenthal NBSK pulp mill in Germany — the outage that began Sept. 4 was originally planned for two weeks but will now run throug…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 10, 2026
Sabotage has halted Papeteries du Léman in Publier, France — three of four legs of a high-voltage pylon feeding the mill were sawed through on Sept. 7, cutting power to the 85,000…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 9, 2026
Metsä Fibre opened a second round of change negotiations at its 690,000 tpy Joutseno softwood pulp mill in Finland on Sept. 8, covering the entire ~160-person workforce, saying it…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 7, 2026
Canada announced retaliatory tariffs — 25% on US softwood lumber and 50% on plywood, LVL and dissolving pulp, plus 25–50% on various paper products — effective Sept. 8, responding…
Forestry Industry Briefing — September 6, 2026
The European Commission issued a statement of objections against the planned UPM–Sappi 50-50 graphic paper joint venture, warning it could restrict competition in coated mechanical…