KapStone to acquire Longview Fibre

Russia’s CPM group has acquired fellow Russian Troitsk paper mill (TBF). The transaction makes the group’s paper producing subsidiary Polotnyano-Zavodskaya (PZBM) principal shareholder of TBF. The Troitsk paper mill produces parchment paper as well as several other grades of paper and composite materials. TBF is the...

US integrated packaging producer West Rock has announced that it will close down its operations for the production of corrugating medium at its St. Paul plant in Minnesota. According to the company, the shutdown of these assets will result in the reduction of 180,000 t of annual corrugating medium production. The...

Producers’ hopes that demand for recycled corrugated case material would pick up at the end of the first quarter have not been fulfilled. Paper companies therefore continue to curtail their production. There is still significant price pressure as a result and further downward price corrections were reported for March....