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The article focuses on the revival of the U.S. cardboard industry due to the surge in e-commerce and the millions of cardboard shipping boxes it generates. Topics covered include the re-opening of Midwest Paper Group's paper mill in Combined Locks, Wisconsin that was shuttered in 2017, the history of the paper industry in Wisconsin, and the world's evolving use of paper.

Reports on Boise Cascade Corp.'s sale of its name and properties to Madison Dearborn Partners. Renaming of Boise Cascade to OfficeMax, the office products distributor it purchased in 2003; Ways in which the deal is a radical example of an uncoupling of assets that has been pervasive in the paper industry.

The article focuses on the declining use of paper in U.S. households. The ubiquitous use of microcomputers has resulted in fewer homes using paper for work, home finances, or school, and the idea of a paperless environment is increasing accepted. At the same time, the use of paper is rapidly expanding in developing countries such as China.

Reports on the sale of several units of International Paper Co. in its aim to focus on industrial and consumer packaging and certain paper operations in the U.S.

Reports International Paper Company's November 1998 announcement that it would buy its rival, the Union Camp Corporation. Value of the stock deal; Impact of the merger on International Paper's market position; Analysts' comments on the move; Response of United States paper industry stocks, including Champion International, Georgia-Pacific and Boise Cascade.

Analyzes the consumer paper market in the United States. Condition of the retail market; Prices for the high-end papers; Information on several paper companies.

Reports on the paper industry scenario of US and in particular, the performance of two giant companies i.e. International Paper Company and Weyerhaeuser Company.

Reports on the investigation by the US Justice Department into possible anticompetitive practices among paper companies in the United States. Reaction of the paper companies.

''Things are changing. The country is changing. Gotta change with it.'' Those words, expressing familiar sentiments these days, are spoken in this case not by a politician but by Curly, a cowboy who takes the notion of change and wrestles it to the ground in ''Oklahoma!'' the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical joyfully opening the 70th season at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Provides news briefs concerning New York as of September 6, 2000. Details on the study which revealed that manufacturers' payments in the state is higher than the national average; Court ruling on Foster Wheeler Corp., which sued Broome County over the collapse of a deal over a garbage-to-energy plant; Update on the planned purchase of Appleton Coated Paper Mill by the Empire Paper Group.

Burdened by both debt and rapidly falling demand for its products, AbitibiBowater, the world's largest newsprint maker, filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday. The company is the product of several pulp and paper company takeovers and mergers. Those transactions left it controlling about 45 percent of the North American newsprint market but also struggling to refinance much of the $8.78 billion in debt it took on. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Discusses a dispute between the newsprint industry and newspaper publishers in the United States, as of May 2001. Impact of increased newsprint prices on the newspaper industry; Effect of declining revenues and the conservation of paper on publishers' willingness to pay more for newsprint.

Reports the Kimberly-Clark Corporation's announcement on November 21, 1997, that it would dismiss workers and close plants. Numbers of workers and plants involved; Basis of the problems at Kimberly-Clark; Comments from company chairman Wayne Sanders and market analyst Kathryn McAuley.

Announces the closure of Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.'s paper mills in Lufkin, Texas and Port-Alfred, Quebec.