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Byline: Canadian Press BUSINESS TICKER / NORTH AMERICA / FORESTRY AbitibiBowater Inc., Canada's largest newsprint producer, says it will change its name to Resolute Forest Products effective Nov. 7. The [...]

Byline: PETER RAKOBOWCHUK; Canadian Press MONTREAL -- The chief executive officer of SFK Pulp Fund says the acquisition of two American fibre mills last year gives his company the opportunity [...]

Melbourne, Australia -- A pizza-stained piece of paper signed by three of the four Beatles has been sold for $37,000 at an auction in Australia. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and [...]

'I LOVE all things,' begins Pablo Neruda's poem Ode to Things, placed at the beginning of this book. It sets perfectly the tone for what follows: a meditation on, a [...]

Champion International Corp. and Weyerhaeuser Co. said they reduced the list price of northern bleached softwood kraft pulp 17 per cent to $725 (U.S.) a tonne from about $875 a [...]

Peter J. Curtis David A. Schirmer, Jr., President of the Corporation, is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter J. Curtis as Senior Vice-President, International. Mr. Curtis, who is located [...]

Byline: CASEY MAHOOD BY CASEY MAHOOD Forest Industry Reporter Less than a year after waste paper markets were glutted and stagnant, prices have risen sharply and the industry is scrambling [...]

The federal Bureau of Competition Policy says it has levied a total of $950,000 in fines against Mitsubishi Corp. and its Canadian subsidiary, Mitsubishi Canada Ltd., for a price-fixing conspiracy [...]

Noranda Forest Inc. will install an $11-million (U.S.) coater at its groundwood mill in Madawaska, Me., to feed the growing demand for paper used in facsimile machines. The change will [...]

Vancouver BC -- Canadian Press VANCOUVER A U.S. environmental magazine's decision to cut B.C. pulp from its paper consumption won't save a single rain forest tree, says the B.C. Council [...]

Byline: Grant Wagner Regina SK -- During visits to Toronto I often walk by Canada's largest children's hospital and wonder why it bears the ponderous title of Hospital for Sick [...]

Ottawa ONT -- OTTAWA The Passport Office introduced a newly designed Canadian passport yesterday that uses sophisticated paper and printing techniques to try to thwart an increasing number of would-be [...]

Byline: BARRIE McKENNA Montreal PQ -- BY BARRIE McKENNA Quebec Bureau MONTREAL Kruger Inc., faced with dwindling demand for newsprint, is spending $14- million to transform a small machine at [...]

Byline: KIMBERLEY NOBLE BY KIMBERLEY NOBLE Forest Industry Reporter Abitibi-Price Inc. has weighed into the North American newsprint industry's on-again, off-again attempts to increase paper prices this summer by telling [...]

Byline: BARRIE McKENNA Montreal PQ -- BY BARRIE McKENNA Quebec Bureau MONTREAL The pulp and paper industry dealt Trois-Rivieres, Que., a double blow yesterday. Canadian Pacific Forest Products Ltd. said [...]

New York NY -- NEW YORK Citicorp says it will begin a financing program this week that will help corporate customers borrow up to $1-billion (U.S.) in the commercial paper [...]

Terrance Pendleton Mr. Guy G. Dufresne, President and Chief Operating Officer of Kruger Inc., Montreal, Canada, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Terrance Pendleton as Senior Vice-President, Sales [...]

Byline: KIMBERLEY NOBLE BY KIMBERLEY NOBLE The Globe and Mail Daishowa Canada Co. Ltd. is asking to be allowed to participate in legal challenges to its $500-million Peace River, Alta., [...]

Byline: BARRIE McKENNA Montreal PQ -- BY BARRIE McKENNA The Globe and Mail MONTREAL Worries about a shortage of old newspapers and confusion about the impact of recycling legislation in [...]

Abitibi-Price Inc. says it intends to offer to purchase all of the 4,565,075 shares outstanding of Barbecon Inc. at $11.50 a share. Both companies are based in Toronto. Abitibi said [...]

Byline: Bart Robinson Camden East, Ont. -- Martin MacLeod, in his response to Andrew Nikiforuk's article Renting Out One-third Of Alberta, states that recycling plants would prefer not to see [...]

Byline: KIMBERLEY NOBLE BY KIMBERLEY NOBLE The Globe and Mail U.S. newspaper publishers have won the first round of this winter's battle with North American newsprint manufacturers. And, having persuaded [...]

Byline: PATRICIA LUSH BY PATRICIA LUSH The Globe and Mail ITT Corp. of New York has completed its $69-million (U.S.) cash purchase of the pump business of Milwaukee-based Allis-Chalmers Corp. [...]

Byline: KIMBERLEY NOBLE BY KIMBERLEY NOBLE The Globe and Mail Canadian newspaper publishers are being told they will get the same price break on next year's newsprint purchases as their [...]

J. G. Davis The appointment of John G. Davis as Executive Vice-President, Printing Papers Group, Abitibi-Price Inc., is announced by Bernd K. Koken, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Abitibi-Price Inc., [...]

The French Government will go ahead with its plans to create a commercial paper market despite opposition from banks, and expects this will lead to the creation of an independent [...]

Mrs. Leitner-Campbell joined the corporate office of Boise Cascade Canada Ltd. in March 1984. Prior to joining the company, she had held management and administrative positions of increasing responsibility with [...]

Pentair Inc. of St. Paul, Minn., says it has completed the sale of its paper mill in Port Huron, Mich., to E. B. Eddy Paper Co. Ltd. of Ottawa, an [...]

Washington DC -- Reuter WASHINGTON The Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday it was forming a task force to investigate possible dangers from the traces of poisonous dioxin found in a [...]

London ENGLAND -- Dow Jones Service LONDON Fletcher Challenge Ltd. of New Zealand is making a friendly 299- million ($557-million) takeover offer for U.K. Paper PLC , upstaging a 263-million [...]

Paper is more popular than ever in spite of predictions that the computer age would create paperless offices. The recent agreement by International Paper Co. of New York to spend [...]

The Globe and Mail MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. and Alberta Newsprint Co. Ltd. have entered into an agreement under which MacMillan will act as Alberta Newsprint's marketing agent when it starts [...]