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Burrows completes acquisition of Innopak Hong Kong

MBJ Staff — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:29:35 +0000

PICKENS — Burrows Paper Corporation completed the acquisition of the remaining 75 percent equity interest in Innopak Hong Kong Limited (the investment company that owns 100 percent of Innopak Heshan) from Innopak Holdings Limited. Until recently, Burrows was a 25 percent stakeholder in this joint venture packaging company. Innopak Heshan is a converter of specialty [...]

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Former mill owner charged after massive fish kill

Associated Press — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:50:40 +0000

PEARL RIVER — The Justice Department has filed two criminal misdemeanor charges against Temple-Inland, the former owner of a paper mill in Bogalusa, La., for violating federal environmental laws. The charges stem from a five-day spill of pollutants from the company’s paper plant into the Pearl River in August 2011. A bill of information filed [...]

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MDEQ fines International Paper, Timber Products plants

Associated Press — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:25:43 +0000

REDWOOD and CORINTH — International Paper Co. is paying a $38,250 civil fine for failing to label used oil tanks and exceeding air pollution limits from a lime kiln. The company, based in Memphis, Tenn., agreed in September to pay the fine to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. An order published by the department [...]

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Mill to be shuttered; nearly 80 workers affected

Associated Press — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:15:25 +0000

NATCHEZ — A Natchez plant will shut down operations at its plant near the Natchez-Adams County Port. The Natchez Democrat reports Mississippi River Pulp (formerly Mississippi River Corporation) will close down its recycled fiber mill effective Oct. 31. The closure, which company officials said is due to lack of demand, will affect 79 hourly and [...]

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Plant facing expensive improvements following fish kill

Associated Press — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:26:56 +0000

BOGALUSA, La. — Major, expensive improvements to the Bogalusa paper mill responsible for a massive August fish kill in the Pearl River will begin at the end of the year. The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality released a timeline last week detailing when the Temple-Inland mill must begin and complete construction of new infrastructure designed [...]

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IP cleared to build landfill by supervisors

Associated Press — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:58:50 +0000

REDWOOD — International Paper can build an 18-acre landfill on its property on Mississippi Highway 3 in Redwood after Warren County officials amended local solid waste rules. The decision by county supervisors came this week after the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said there was no provision in the county’s solid waste plan for a [...]

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Weyerhaeuser plans expansion, improvements of plants

Associated Press — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:14:19 +0000

LOWNDES COUNTY — Weyerhaeuser Co. is planning expansions at both of its Lowndes County production facilities over the next two years. Company spokeswoman Mary Hudson told the Commercial Dispatch that Weyerhaeuser plans to modernize equipment to reduce operating costs as well as improve product quality and environmental performance, reducing water consumption by 15 percent. Weyerhaeuser [...]

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Ark. company buys closed Brookhaven plant

Associated Press — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:26:29 +0000

BROOKHAVEN — An Arkansas-based agriculture products company has bought the former Specialty Minerals plant in Brookhaven. Holmes Morel, president of M&M Milling Inc. of Texarkana, Ark., tells The Daily Leader that the company hopes to be in operation in six months and could hire as many as 50 workers. Morel says he will spend more [...]

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