RockTenn and MeadWestvaco (MWV) have joined to create a provider of consumer and corrugated packaging in a transaction with a combined equity value of $16bn.
The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) is calling on manufacturers to look at the whole picture of sustainability, right through the supply chain, rather than just focusing on the end product.
International Paper has announced they will close four container plants due to the firm’s merger with Temple-Inland creating ‘overcapacity within the system’.
In the US, TAPPI's Corrugated Containers Division has changed its
name to the Corrugated Packaging Division in a move that the
company said more accurately reflects the division's membership and
activities.