UPM has taken the first steps to renew its reporting under The European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). Four of the company's mills have this year completed their EMAS Environmental Performance reports with locally relevant information on societal aspects and impacts

Metsä Group made the decision concerning the largest investment in the history of Finnish forest industry in April 2015, and the large-scale project at Äänekoski has progressed as planned – on schedule and according to the budget – towards the mill’s start-up.

NatureWorks, an advanced materials company offering a broad portfolio of renewably sourced polymers and chemicals, has formed a Performance Chemicals Division to supply lactides, polyols, binder resins, and chemical intermediates to companies that manufacture innovative C.A.S.E. (coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers), toners, and fine chemicals. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170620006272/en/ Vercet is a new tunable platform of lactide-based chemistries from the NatureWorks Performance Chemicals Division. (Graphic: NatureWorks)

ClearPower North America has launched a patented, axial flow, fixed-blade Kaplan Industrial Turbine Generator (ITG), a solution that empowers manufacturers, utilities, municipalities and any business that utilizes gravity-fed pipelines or outfalls to convert their water flow into a source of sustainable, renewable, low-cost electricity

Valmet takes its Industrial Internet services to the next level by launching a new offering and opening four Performance Centers for energy, pulp, paper and board and tissue customers

Glatfelter announced that Tina M. Moylan joined its Specialty Papers business unit as Director, Specialty Inkjet Products, reporting to David Dickerhoof, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, effective June 12

The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) recently congratulated member companies Merck & Co., Inc., Amgen Inc., and Dow Chemical Company for receiving 2017 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards

The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) and Koehler Paper Group are the recipients of a 2017 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. The award was given in the design of greener chemicals category for the development of ROPAQUE™ NT-2900 Opaque Polymer for BLUE 4EST™ Thermal Paper. This is the 11th Presidential Green Chemistry Award Dow and its affiliates have received since the EPA introduced the award in 1996. “BLUE 4EST™

The first-ever nationwide assessment of Canada's freshwater resources found significant evidence of disruption to watersheds across the country as a result of human activities.

While Brazilian domestic pulp consumption fell in March 2017, pulp exports surged almost 10 percent