Andreas Krafft has been appointed to Klingele Paper & Packaging Group's management team as the new COO for the Packaging division, responsible for the global management of the corrugated board and converting plants. Read more: tinyurl.com/53ebc45x

For the second year in a row, Cristiano Teixeira, CEO of Klabin, has been named the Latin American CEO of the Year by Fastmarkets Forest Products, the world's leading provider of pricing data and analytics for the pulp, paper, and packaging industries: tinyurl.com/4srbtwyd

Sonoco Products Company has announced that Paul Joachimczyk has been named Chief Financial Officer, effective June 30, 2025. Joachimczyk previously was Senior Vice President, CFO, and Corporate Secretary of American Woodmark Corporation: tinyurl.com/mrxuhwst

Base fees for year 1 (2025-2026) of the UK's Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging scheme have been finalized, with paper and Cardboard listed at £196 per tonne. The first invoices are scheduled for October 2025. Read more: tinyurl.com/2xzt64ez

Nine Dragons Paper has successfully started up a pulp mill supplied by Andritz at its new integrated pulp and paper production plant in Hubei Jianli, China. The state-of-the-art mill includes world-leading process technology and production equipment: tinyurl.com/msnhxuz3

Earlier this year, Mondi Group completed its acquisition of Schumacher Packaging's assets in Western Europe. Packaging Europe spoke with Markus Gärtner, CEO Corrugated Packaging at Mondi, to learn more about what we can expect to see moving forward: tinyurl.com/364u5hyf

Kruger is proposing to invest up to $700 million in transforming its 100-year-old Corner Brook Pulp and Paper mill in Canada into a modernized and sustainable manufacturing complex, which will become one of the most competitive in the industry: tinyurl.com/yf6yhwny

Rengo Co., Ltd. announced that its consolidated subsidiary, Tri-Wall Limited, has acquired a 100% stake in Scart Imballaggi S.r.l. (Scart), through Tri-Wall's wholly owned subsidiary: tinyurl.com/584ycape Category

Christian Fischer, Georgia-Pacific's president and CEO, announced he is retiring from the company at the end of October and will work to transition his responsibilities to Koch EVP Mark Luetters beginning in August: tinyurl.com/9echwd4s

@Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, has announced that changes to the company's corporate management team and the composition and number of members of the company's Board of Directors have been made effective August 1, 2025. Read more: tinyurl.com/3jx5yyehbeen

Suzano and Eldorado Celulose have established a "standing wood" swap agreement allowing each company to use, in defined volumes and timeframes, trees from the other's forest assets to supply their respective pulp production lines: tinyurl.com/5xrwvkzj

One of the many advantages of being a member of ICCA is access to quarterly world corrugated production statistics. View the report, which presents each country's production/shipments of corrugated products: tinyurl.com/4rbbn46m

The provincial government of Bali in Indonesia has revealed its intentions to prohibit the production of small plastic packaging, often referred to as sachets, beginning in 2026: tinyurl.com/bdfatyc8.

Klabin has been recognized as the most innovative company in the South region of the country, achieving first place in the overall ranking of the Innovation Champions 2025 survey, conducted by the AMANHÃ Group: tinyurl.com/yzwjjbbz

Once again, Metsä Board has achieved the highest Platinum level in the 2025 EcoVadis sustainability assessment, ranking among the top 1% of companies globally in the category of paper, paperboard, and packaging manufacturers, with a score of 91/100: tinyurl.com/vhdmza4z

Production is ramping up for @MondiGroup's high-performance barrier paper, which offers exceptional protection against oxygen, water vapour, and grease, while substantially lowering cradle-to-grave CO₂ emissions compared to traditional barriers: tinyurl.com/2u32ncyz

New data from Cepi shows the EU paper industry continues to lead in sustainability efforts. CO₂ emissions per tonne of paper and board fell by 6.3% in 2024, and are now 50% lower than in 2005; and the sector achieved a 68% paper recycling rate: tinyurl.com/8y9f9bhz

The Klingele Paper & Packaging Group has been recognized as an industry leader with the "Highest Innovation Strength 2025" seal by WELT magazine, together with the analysis institute ServiceValue: tinyurl.com/3erdzp9n

The Saica Flex plant in Wigan has become the first flexible packaging site in the UK to be awarded the Saica Zero to Landfill Certificate, achieving an impressive 99.82% waste diversion rate in the audit. Read more: tinyurl.com/3f9svu6y

Oji has announced that its paper products have been adopted as the packaging material for refills of Pentel Co., Ltd.'s "ENERGEL" gel roller pen for the European market, reducing the company's global plastic use by roughly 40%. Read more: tinyurl.com/mppa8esn