Furniture makers also recorded declines, even as overall industrial earnings grew and paper producers gained.
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Price for wood pulp imported to United Arab Emirates decreased 16%.
Former Huber Engineered Materials president led $2 billion in M&A and joins Board amid strategic review.
Price for bleached kraft pulp imported to China rose 1.2%.
Price for recycled pulp exported from Thailand gained 5%.
Price for bleached softwood kraft pulp imported to China increased slightly 0.4%.
Price for bleached kraft pulp imported to China gained 1.2%.
The stoppages will target production levels and wood sourcing; Pietarsaari mill may face a temporary shutdown in October
Price for bleached kraft pulp exported from Finland upped 4%.
Price for bleached kraft pulp exported from the EU gained 3%.
Stora Enso to raise Skutskär fluff capacity by 10% and close softwood pulp production on fiberline 3
The company will invest Euro 19 million in upgrades to increase fluff capacity to 440 thousand tons annually, with the project due to complete in the fourth quarter of 2027.
Price for bleached kraft pulp exported from Uruguay to China slipped 4%.
Price for bleached kraft pulp exported from Canada fell marginally 0.7%.
The plan sets four pillars — secure competitive wood fibre, invest in modernization and innovation, expand domestic and international markets, and support workers and communities, and will feed into a formal Forest Sector Strategy by the end of 2026.
The proposal keeps an exemption process and sets July deadlines, while the determination cites illegal logging and timber laundering as factors that distort wood-product pricing.
Current general manager Vanecia Carr rises to CEO as company targets growth in absorbent materials market.
Exports of bleached hardwood kraft pulp from Chile gained 4%.
Price for bleached softwood kraft pulp exported from Chile lost 8%.
Price for bleached hardwood kraft pulp exported from Brazil gained 1.3%.
The project will replace the site's last third-party control system with a web-based distributed control system, include a DNAe historian and HIMA-based safety systems, and the customer will take over delivery in the first quarter of 2027.