Operations News

Local United Steel Worker unions have voted down another contract with Graphic Packaging International and have given a 10-day notice to strike.

Appvion closed the mill in early 2021.

A leaked, undated internal memo from Evergreen Packaging's Canton General Manager John McCarthy says that the mill will idle one of its paper-making machines, citing reduced demand for its particular product.

Officials say a machine overheated, causing sheet rock to catch fire.

Mercer International Inc. announces that the operator of the Cariboo Pulp and Paper mill, in which Mercer has a joint venture interest, has announced a planned curtailment of operation beginning in mid-April for a month and then for another month in the third quarter.

There is no word on what caused the fire or the extent of the damage.

The 22-year-old lineman was pulled into the paper-mill machine by his right arm while working at his station, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.

Nobody was hurt in the fire, which is expected to keep the Evergreen mill, also known as the Tamarack Mill, closed for up to two weeks.

A Skowhegan man working for a contractor died suddenly last week at the Sappi paper mill, according to officials.

Located in Kansas City, this new 150,000 sq. ft. millwork facility is expected to begin production in June 2023.

Nobody was injured but the mill was shut down as a result.

There were no injuries sustained from the fire.

Georgia-Pacific has given an update on a worker who was critically injured in a Thursday morning, Jan. 19, incident at the company's Pineland facility.

Fibre-based consumer packaging leader Graphic Packaging International ('Graphic Packaging') has announced it is moving its Bristol, UK beverage packaging manufacturing operations to a new, state-of-the-art facility nearby, creating up to 30 new jobs in the process.

Mercer International Inc. reports that, due to a lack of appropriate fiber availability, its Celgar mill in British Columbia, Canada, is planning to take approximately three weeks of downtime. This curtailment is expected to commence in March 2023.

Ohio-based printing company Multi-Color Corporation announced that it plans to permanently close its Menomonee Falls facility, resulting in layoffs for all 29 employees, according to a letter the company sent to the Department of Workforce Development's Dislocated Worker Unit.

The Land and Environment Court in Vänersborg has communicated its decision to grant a permit for increased production output at the Nordic Paper plant in Bäckhammar, Sweden. The new permit allows for Nordic Paper to, after investments, increase its production of paper pulp in Bäckhammar by more than 20% and of kraft papers by more than 10%. The company is now going to analyse the details of the permit in order to determine any impact on potential investment alternatives.

WestRock union workers have been on the picket line since Oct. 6th.

Canfor Corporation will extend sawmill curtailments in British Columbia (B.C.) due to ongoing weak market conditions and the lack of available economic fibre, company announced.

The Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) paper mill in Jackson has called employees back to work and is expected to resume production Monday, Jan. 9.

The negotiations affect all workers at Stora Enso's packaging materials mills in Oulu, Varkaus, Heinola and Anjalankoski.

For the third time, members from three united steel workers unions have voted to reject what Westrock paper mill representatives call the company's last, best, and final offer.

Canfor Pulp Products Inc. is announcing the immediate curtailment of its Intercontinental Pulp Mill, which is expected to be in place for four weeks. The curtailment is due to the lack of available economic fibre as a result of sawmill curtailments. The downtime will remove approximately 24,000 tonnes of market kraft pulp.

Over 450 Unifor members in Dryden have voted overwhelmingly in favor of three new contracts with Domtar.

What is being described as a "perfect storm of events" has resulted in the unexpected shutdown of International Paper Company's Georgetown mill - and the Christmas weekend freeze is to blame.