IP cleared to build landfill by supervisors
REDWOOD — International Paper can build an 18-acre landfill on its property on Mississippi Highway 3 in Redwood after Warren County officials amended local solid waste rules. The decision by county...
View ArticlePlant facing expensive improvements following fish kill
BOGALUSA, La. — Major, expensive improvements to the Bogalusa paper mill responsible for a massive August fish kill in the Pearl River will begin at the end of the year. The Louisiana Department of...
View ArticleMill to be shuttered; nearly 80 workers affected
NATCHEZ — A Natchez plant will shut down operations at its plant near the Natchez-Adams County Port. The Natchez Democrat reports Mississippi River Pulp (formerly Mississippi River Corporation) will...
View ArticleMDEQ fines International Paper, Timber Products plants
REDWOOD and CORINTH — International Paper Co. is paying a $38,250 civil fine for failing to label used oil tanks and exceeding air pollution limits from a lime kiln. The company, based in Memphis,...
View ArticleFormer mill owner charged after massive fish kill
PEARL RIVER — The Justice Department has filed two criminal misdemeanor charges against Temple-Inland, the former owner of a paper mill in Bogalusa, La., for violating federal environmental laws. The...
View ArticleBurrows completes acquisition of Innopak Hong Kong
PICKENS — Burrows Paper Corporation completed the acquisition of the remaining 75 percent equity interest in Innopak Hong Kong Limited (the investment company that owns 100 percent of Innopak Heshan)...
View ArticleOfficials overrun by records; supervisors conference room in jeopardy
HERNANDO — There’s hardly room to squeeze through the boxes of DeSoto County records packed nearly to the ceiling in a third-floor room of the county administration building. Supervisor Lee Caldwell of...
View ArticlePaper plant will have converting and manufacturing capabilities
NATCHEZ — Von Drehle Corporation officials say the Natchez plant will be the company’s only “all-under-one-roof” facility. The Natchez Democrat reports company engineer Tanya Richardson told a local...
View ArticleGeorgia-Pacific closing Delaware plant; shifting operation here
DOVER, Del. — Georgia-Pacific says it is closing a packaging facility in Harrington by the end of the year, leaving about 95 workers without jobs. The privately held company says operations at the...
View ArticleGeorgia-Pacific buying SPG facilities in three states
HATTIESBURG — Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products, LP and SPG Holdings, LLC have reached an agreement under which Georgia-Pacific would purchase SPG, a paper goods company that manufactures and converts...
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