Crippling 2-week port strike in Finland ends after mediation A port strike that shut down most of Finland's foreign trade has ended, National Conciliator Esa Lonka said Friday. "It's over," Lonka said. "Dock workers will go back to work as soon as ...
A Finnish dock workers' strike that has crippled the export-reliant Nordic country's foreign trade entered its fifth day Monday, with major companies saying they were forced to temporarily halt operations. The key forestry industry was one of the worst-hit, with the world's ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - The decision by the United States to impose preliminary duties on Chinese coated paper and phosphate salts was unfair and discriminatory, a spokesman for China's Commerce Ministry said in a statement seen on Saturday. The U.S. Commerce Department on ...
Finnish dock workers' strike halts cargo transports after labor talks break down Dock workers stopped handling cargo at Finnish ports on Thursday after labor contract negotiations broke down, leading to the closing of most of the country's foreign trade. The strike began ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday imposed preliminary duties on two goods from China, glossy magazine-quality paper and certain salts used to make fertilizer, adding to a growing list of bilateral trade disputes. The Commerce Department hit Chinese coated paper ...
<div><p>CARTHAGE - A Canadian company, called Metro Paper Industries Tissue Group, is investing $2 million in new equipment and an expanded work force at its Metro Paper Industries of N.Y. Inc. unit in Carthage.</p><p>The 240,000-square-foot plant at 695 West End Ave. in ...
<div><p>Despite a US credit crunch the last 11/2 years, GE Commercial Finance Corporate Lending took part in recent deals lending $112 million for Pratt Industries USA's recycled containerboard machine project in Shreveport, LA, and $275 million for Peter Brant and partners to ...
<div><p>BRIEF NEWS AND REVIEWS FROM AROUND THE INDUSTRY</p><p>* Smurfit-Stone Container recently installed five "technologically enhanced" sorting systems at its recycling plants in Oakland and Torrance, CA; Jacksonville and Tampa, FL; and Seattle, WA, according to a report in Reliable Plant Magazine. The ...
<div><p>TODAY'S PAPER INDUSTRY faces more challenges than ever. With overcapacity issues combined with rising energy and raw material prices, many paper producers are looking for new ways of doing business. Paper companies are relying more than ever on suppliers to provide services ...
<div id="subtitle">Vermont loggers see nothing sweet about plan to expand maple syrup operations</div><div><p>Maple syrup is almost holy in Vermont, but the trees it comes from are holey from being tapped every spring. Now some in the logging industry are chopping mad about ...
