Unbranded conceptual warehouse with paper rolls and shipping cartons

CNG announces Omaha Paper purchase; closing is expected at October's end

CNG plans to acquire Omaha Paper’s business through Lindenmeyr Munroe. Its announcement expects a closing at the end of October 2026; it does not establish a completed deal.

October 20, 2026 · PackingMaster
Seven unbranded bottles beside a generic carton

Corona Cero's Seven-Bottle Paperboard Pack Is Not Its Corrugated Transit Pack

Read Smurfit Westrock’s October 14 announcement alongside the PPC award entry. The reported Colombia and Argentina launches are supplier claims; a seven-bottle retail carton and separate corrugated transit packaging do not share a demonstrated strength rating.

October 20, 2026 · PackingMaster
Conceptual scene of unmarked thermal-paper rolls and cartons

Hansol's 1.69% preliminary U.S. thermal-paper margin is not a final duty

The U.S. Department of Commerce preliminarily calculated a 1.69% dumping margin for Hansol Paper in a thermal-paper administrative review. This is not the final duty or a universal import deposit rate.

October 20, 2026 · PackingMaster
Unbranded conceptual packaging-equipment exhibition aisle

TOKYO PACK exchange talks do not yet confirm a joint ESG PACK 2027 programme

A Korean exhibition organiser discussed exchange with Japan’s packaging association at TOKYO PACK 2026. The 2027 Korean event date is public, but a joint programme is not confirmed.

October 20, 2026 · PackingMaster
Generic wastewater treatment facility concept, not the actual paper mill

Port Townsend mill receives spill-violation notice; discharge volume and penalties unsettled

Washington Ecology reportedly notified the mill of two November 2025 discharges. The disputed volume of one spill and any further penalty remain unresolved.

October 19, 2026 · PackingMaster
Generic rural riverside pumping infrastructure concept, not the actual Yongsan station

Damyang pumping-station removal call is not a paper-mill water cutoff

A lawmaker called for the Yongsan station’s removal, but neither its final disposition nor any mill-water disruption has been established.

October 19, 2026 · PackingMaster
Conceptual arrangement of stacked sheets and rolls, not the announced factory

Canada's planned transformer pressboard plant: a different test from packaging board

Hitachi Energy has announced a planned Ontario insulation-materials factory. Transformer pressboard is not interchangeable with packaging paperboard.

October 19, 2026 · PackingMaster
Generic molded-pulp trays and paperwork, not merchandise from the investigation

U.S. molded-fiber transshipment inquiry: interim measures, not a final origin ruling

Read CBP’s EAPA consolidated case 8308 as an interim reasonable-suspicion measure and examine the material-to-production document chain.

October 19, 2026 · PackingMaster
Generic conceptual paper and packaging scene, not the named company or actual installation

Brohl Wellpappe's waterscoring case: where fold claims meet measurement

A newly published account of Brohl Wellpappe’s Easyfold system describes operator experience, but provides no independent pre/post dimensional or scrap-rate data.

October 18, 2026 · PackingMaster
Generic conceptual paper and packaging scene, not the named company or actual installation

Hansol Paper's AI-factory selection: steam plans are not verified savings

Hansol Paper’s reported selection for a government-backed AI factory project sets out data and steam-management plans, not measured energy savings.

October 18, 2026 · PackingMaster