Planned carton facility will create West Coast end market
By the second half of 2025, a new facility will be turning out roofing construction materials made from 1.5 million...
Paper Fiber
Recycling sector weathers the effects of Beryl
As the first major hurricane of the season hit Texas last week, MRFs and processors braced for disrupted services, flooding...
Washington mill to close, citing OCC prices, market demand
Just five years after converting to use 100% recycled fiber in containerboard production, McKinley Paper Company will idle its mill...
Smurfit Westrock merger creates latest packaging giant
With a long-in-the-works merger finally official, recycling collector and major fiber end user Westrock is now one with the European...
Amazon cutting out more flexible packaging
Amazon will send 15 billion fewer plastic pillows into the waste stream after replacing 95% of its product protection system...
As OCC continues to rise, end users up product prices
Multiple paper packaging giants have announced price increases for their uncoated recycled paperboard in recent weeks due to rising recycled...
Crossroads Paper is back, planning a mill in Nevada
The team behind a proposed Utah recycled paper mill has resurfaced with plans that move the site west, now aiming...
Mill operators sound off on rising fiber prices
OCC end users have been paying consistently higher prices for the recovered fiber grade since last fall, and it played...
Fiber exports down 17% in first quarter, plastics flat
Exports of U.S. recovered paper dwindled to their lowest first-quarter volume since 2002, driven by substantial declines to major buyers...
Once a growing market, recycled pulp exports dry up
In May 2018, as the global recycling industry was reeling from the Chinese government's move to ban or heavily restrict...
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