The review will explore growth options in engineered wood products while addressing profitability challenges at Metsä Wood UK.
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Operations are expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2028, with capacity 50% higher than the existing machine's.
Work has begun, and startup of the new lines is scheduled for late next year.
The deal brings the group to seven brands and four plants in Ontario, British Columbia, Idaho and Michigan.
A color camera will match the repair compound to the color of each plywood sheet.
About 90 workers lose their jobs at the Quesnel River Pulp mill, which has been shut since early September.
The group is trimming the unit to lift its profitability, citing slow market growth and rising costs.
Sexton Lumber, with capacity of about 65 million board feet a year, has suspended harvesting and log purchasing while damage is assessed.
The new business would be built on AAM's Bathurst and Mount Gambier mills and buy plantation softwood operations only.
The hardwood processor plans about 30 jobs in the first phase and 100 within three years at the Vrbovsko site.
The German fiberboard maker expects the Pagiriai plant's loss to shrink to about Euro 3 million in 2027 once production stops.
The industrial packaging maker sees no clear sign of a demand recovery and set fiscal 2027 adjusted EBITDA guidance at $645 million at the low end.
The paper group now expects ¥45 billion for the year to March 2027 instead of ¥60 billion.
Three paper machines and the pulp line damaged in the July earthquake will not restart, and output moves to other mills.
The talks will cover about 120 employees, and the possible layoffs could last more than 90 days in several periods next year.
Sylvamo would keep a right to 20% of the business's future distributions, while third-quarter adjusted EBITDA fell 19% to $128 million.
The plant near Alexandria will turn about 100,000 metric tons of Southern Yellow Pine mill residuals a year into biochar and carbon removal credits, with production expected in the second quarter of 2027.
The family-owned group needs several profitable years before it can fund the Kinnared project, its sawmill chief says, and has set no new date.
Production grew 10% from a year earlier and from the second quarter, with 91% of the pellets made from sawmill residues.
Planing, painting and impregnation will continue at the site with lumber from another Holmen mill.