Sonoco is voluntarily targeting a 15 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the company’s more than 300 global manufacturing plants by 2014. More>>

Shorewood Packaging, a subsidiary of International Paper Corp., will close its Newport News, Va.-based tobacco folding carton plant in October, the Virginian-Pilot reports.More>>

ORIX Finance Group, Dallas, is leading a group of five lenders and has arranged a $110 million credit facility to support The Newark Group through its bankruptcy process, reports Citybizlist. More>>

On July 1 Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. said it will consolidate or shutter seven more of its box plants in 2010 and 2011.More>>

RockTenn is investing $25 million in a new, state of the art chip mill to furnish its Demopolis, Ala., solid bleached sulfate (SBS) and southern bleached softwood kraft (SBSK) pulp mill with wood chips and bark. More>>

Judge Brendan Shannon of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., entered an order confirming the Joint Plan of Reorganization and Plan of Compromise and Arrangement filed by the company and each of its subsidiaries and affiliates currently acting as debtors in possession under Chapter 11 of...More>>

International Paper (IP) says a corrugated container plant in Jonesboro, Ark., will close permanently in the next several weeks, resulting in the loss of 86 jobs, reports the Associated Press.More>>

GMI Group, Plymouth, Ind., is expanding the group's Corpak Division with the addition of a fourth manufacturing plant in Atlanta. The new plant was specifically selected to serve the southeastern section of the country, including Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Caroline, South Carolina,...More>>

International Paper Co. (IP) is being sued by 155 former employees of its closed containerboard mill in Pineville, La., for alleged hearing loss suffered on the job. More>>

A class action lawsuit against Australian packaging companies Amcor Ltd. and Visy Industries Ltd. will test out a defense against price-fixing in which the plaintiffs can only prevail if they did not pass on higher prices to their own customers.More>>