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Kimberly-Clark, the US paper products group, has expanded its higher-margin healthcare products business, by announcing two acquisitions in one week to boost its medical device business. The company, known for [...]

MEDIA AbitibiBowater, the newsprint producer that is beset by some $6bn in debt and a depressed market for its product, today faces the latest deadline for its creditors to accept [...]

Norske Skog, the world's second-largest newsprint producer, is considering spinning off its Asian operations but has rejected demands from activist shareholders that it sell the mills outright. The Norwegian paper [...]

Mondi, the paper company that this week spun off from Anglo American, the mining company, to list in London and Johannesburg, said it had made two acquisitions in the packaging [...]

Rexam has made its second acquisition since the start of June, paying Pounds 149m forRostar, the Russian canmaker. The move strengthens Rexam's position as Europe's biggest maker of beverage cans [...]

(From Jiji) Tokyo, Nov. 28 (Jiji Press)--Nippon Paper Group Inc. and Marubeni Corp. will jointly acquire Amapa Florestal e Celulose SA, a Brazilian company that produces wood chips and plants [...]

TOKYO -- Oji Paper yesterday effectively conceded defeat in its Dollars 1.4bn hostile bid to acquire Hokuetsu Paper Mills, putting an end to Japan's first hostile bid by an established [...]

TORONTO -- Weyerhaeuser, the US forest products group, has agreed to merge its fine-paper business withMontreal-based Domtar, underscoring the North American paper industry's struggle against the impact of the internet [...]

TOKYO -- Oji Paper's unprecedented hostile takeover attempt on Hokuetsu Paper Mills took a new twist yesterday after Daio Paper, Japan's third-largest paper maker, said a union of the two [...]

TOKYO -- Chuetsu Pulp & Paper and Mitsubishi Paper Mills yesterday dropped a plan to merge after failing to agree on how to realign their sales and distribution networks. The [...]

JOHANNESBURG -- Sappi, the South African paper and pulp producer, yesterday said it had bought the coated fine paper assets of Potlatch, the US forest products company, for Dollars 480m [...]

MADRID and PARIS -- A takeover battle for La Rochette escalated yesterday after an unlisted Spanish paper company topped Anglo American's bid for the French timber and paper group. Saica, [...]

Willamette The war of the woodmen drags on. But is seems increasingly obvious that Willamette sees its own shareholders as enemies, as well as rival forest product group Weyerhaeuser. Or [...]

NEW YORK -- Two large shareholders in Willamette have launched a last-ditch attempt to prevent the pulp and paper group from agreeing a joint venture with Georgia-Pacific. Guy Wyser-Pratte, the [...]

PARIS -- Anglo American sparkeda bid battle for the French timber and paper group La Rochette yesterday with a Euros 298m (Dollars 265m) cash offer for the Paris-listed company. The [...]

NEW YORK -- Weyerhaeuser, the forest products group, yesterday raised its offer for Willamette to Dollars 55 a share in a last-ditch effort to prevent its rival from escaping. The [...]

OSLO -- Kvaerner, the Anglo-Norwegian industrial engineering group, yesterday put plans to sell its pulp and paper operations on hold in order to focus on improving the non-core business. The [...]

NEW YORK -- Willamette Industries, the US paper group which has been fighting a hostile bid from rival Weyerhaueser, is in talks about acquiring the building products division of Georgia-Pacific. [...]

BRUSSELS and STOCKHOLM -- The European Commission is set to approve the Euros 3.64bn (Dollars 3.27bn) acquisition by Finland's UPM-Kymmene of its German rival Haindl, creating the world's largest maker [...]

David S Smith, the paper and packaging group, yesterday acquired a number of UK corrugated packaging operations from the Mondi Packaging arm of Anglo American, the London-listed resources group, for [...]

Paper and packaging It says a lot about the pace of consolidation in the paper industry that the markets should get so excited about a report that the world's two [...]

TORONTO -- Hopes of a relatively quick resolution to the USDollars 7.2bn takeover battle between Weyerhaeuser and Willamette, the rival US forest products groups, have been dashed after a vote [...]

Weyerhaeuser pressures rival Weyerhaeuser yesterday called on its rival Willamette to open negotiations for an agreed takeover. It followed a narrow victory for the company after shareholders voted to elect [...]

TORONTO -- Weyerhaeuser, the US forest products group, said yesterday it seemed to have won its battle for representation on rival Willamette's board, increasing the chances of success for Weyerhaeuser's [...]

LAUSANNE -- Asher Edelman, one of Wall Street's most feared corporate raiders in the 1980s, has re-emerged in Switzerland as a champion of good corporate governance with a SFr143m (Dollars [...]

Asher Edelman, the brash New Yorker who stalked Sir Terence Conran's Storehouse in the late 1980s, is back in action. The infamous corporate raider yesterday launched a hostile Pounds 60m [...]

SAO PAULO -- Two of Brazil's leading pulp and paper manufacturers yesterday moved a step closer to the acquisition of a strategic pulp plant that would boost them in their [...]

TORONTO -- Domtar, Canada's second-largest forest products group, is poised to vault into the top ranks of North American paper producers after agreeing to acquire four paper mills from Georgia-Pacific, [...]

STOCKHOLM and OSLO -- UPM-Kymmene of Finland is set to become the world's biggest producer of publication papers following yesterday's announcement of its planned Euros 3.64bn (Dollars 3.1bn) purchase of [...]

Willamette Willamette's board is determined to protect its shareholders from themselves. The Portland-based paper group says Weyerhaeuser's Dollars 50 a share in cash is a 'low-ball' offer. Weyerhaeuser's Dollars 2 [...]

TORONTO -- Willamette, the US forest products group, yesterday rejected a higher offer from rival Weyerhaeuser, saying the revised Dollars 5.5bn offer was still too low. 'We will not negotiate [...]

LONDON -- Weyerhaeuser yesterday raised its hostile cash offer for Willamette in an attempt to break the six-month deadlock between the two US paper companies and bring its rival to [...]

TORONTO -- Domtar, the Canadian forest products group, has signed a letter of intent to acquire four paper mills from US rival Georgia-Pacific, in a deal estimated to be worth [...]

World pulp and Paper survey CONSOLIDATION AND GLOBALISATION by Nicholas George If, in the past, there has been much talk about consolidation in the paper and pulp industry, 2000 marked [...]

SAO PAOLO -- World Pulp and Paper survey BRAZIL by Raymond Colitt in Sa~o Paulo For Brazil's pulp and paper industry, by far the largest in South America, rospects for [...]

Pulp and Paper survey Profile International Paper International Paper (IP), the world's largest producer of forest products, is finally starting to 'get it'. At least, that is what industry analysts [...]

OSLO. -- World Pulp and Paper survey Profile: Norske Slog Expansion extends grip on global imprint Following a number of acquisitions, the Norwegian paper manufacturer has become one of the [...]

STOCKHOLM -- World Pulp and Paper It has been a bruising process, but the wave of North American acquisitions by Europe's leading paper producers has marked a new stage in [...]

TORONTO -- World Pulp and Paper survey The industry experienced a record number of acquisitions last year. It also saw many companies adopt rationalisation measures, including much-needed cuts in costs [...]

TORONTO -- Bowater, North America's second-largest newsprint producer, yesterday agreed to acquire Canadian rival Alliance Forest Products for USDollars 770m in cash, shares and debt. The acquisition reflects ongoing consolidation [...]

LISBON -- Sonae, Portugal's biggest conglomerate, has instigated court action to block a Euros 665m (Dollars 588m) capital increase by Portucel, the country's leading pulp and paper company, as a [...]

TORONTO, OSLO and WELLINGTON -- Norske Skogindustrier, the world's second-largest newsprint producer, said yesterday its Canadian arm had launched an offer of up to CDollars 358m (USDollars 228m), before debt, [...]

OSLO -- Norway's Norske Skogindustrier, the world's second largest newsprint producer, said yesterday it was in talks through its Canadian unit to buy Canada's Pacifica Papers in a deal expected [...]

Rexam, the paper and packaging group, is close to selling its building and engineering division, and the last remaining business in its coated film and papers operation. Rolf Borjesson, chief [...]

Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the world's largest iron ore company, kicked off its long-awaited asset disposal programme yesterday with the sale of its stake in Bahia Sul, a [...]

OSLO -- Norske Skogindustrier, the world's second largest newsprint producer, yesterday put another NKr3bn to NKr3.5bn (Dollars 342m-Dollars 399m) in non-core assets up for sale and proposes to combine its [...]