Rockwood Color Pigments and Services, a business unit of Rockwood Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ROC), announces a global price increase, as contracts permit, of $120/Mt effective August 1, 2012 on all synthetic iron oxide pigment products.
Verso Paper Corp. (NYSE:VRS) today launched the Verso Forest Certification Grant Program, an initiative aimed at increasing certified fiber and certified acreage on lands near the company’s four paper mills. The program will provide start-up funding to encourage and assist landowners, consulting foresters and other stakeholders in developing innovative new projects that will help expand and maintain certification in Verso’s wood procurement zones.
Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) (TSX: UFS) today released its 2011 Sustainable Growth Report, unveiling 35 key performance indicators that will shape the company’s sustainability efforts out to 2020. This sustainability framework builds on years of industry leadership in forestry certification, mill-level environmental performance and longstanding ENGO collaborations.
As a truly global law firm, White & Case wanted to provide readers with a multiplicity of Firm vantage points to demonstrate not only their achievements in 2011, but also their wide range of capabilities, their global presence and their thought leadership worldwide. The theme “Perspectives” gave them a flexible visual and content platform to facilitate this goal, allowing both broad and focused approaches to imagery and editorial content.
International Paper (NYSE: IP) today announced that it has finalized the sale of its Ontario and Oxnard, California containerboard mills to New-Indy Containerboard LLC, along with its New Johnsonville, Tennessee containerboard mill to Hood Container Corporation.
UPM is entering into exclusive negotiations with VPK Packaging Group NV and Klingele Papierwerke through their newly created joint venture company, for the sale of assets and part of the land at the UPM Stracel paper mill site in Strasbourg, France. VPK and Klingele have made an offer on the acquisition of assets from UPM.
Verso Paper Corp. (NYSE:VRS) announced today that it has held discussions with certain holders of the 11.375% first-lien senior secured notes of NewPage Corporation in an effort to achieve a potential business combination involving Verso and NewPage as part of a consensual plan of reorganization in NewPage’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
