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Get links to the latest news, events, stories, and interviews from our 5P news members. Our goal is to remind the decision-makers in Wisconsin of the importance of our industry both historically, and more importantly, into the future.
Read the latest 91 Stories and Links on the Internet below.

Featured Stories
- Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research
- UW Platteville students examine Midwest Infrastructure projects
- Universities where the most alumni become entrepreneurs
- Converting equipment market research path to growth
- Google: Growing the next generation of American Workers
- Cellulose plastic enabling recycling biodegradable recycling
- Global Pulp and Paper Market Forecast t0 2035 with tissue and sustainable packaging leading the way
- How ai is making packaging smarter and less wasteful
- UW Madison’s Engineering Dean says time as Badger shaped his approach
- Science researchers move abroad under siege in the USA
- DNR issues PFAS monitoring general permit for biosolids
- A society that loses science loses the future
- China: Top Paper Napkin Manufacturer strengthen chain with innovation and sustainability manufacturing
- epr to go on trial Oregon lawsuits
- Megatrends poised to reshape North American Packaging
- New global study sees Fibre based food packaging to be leading sustainable material by 2045
- orbis Parent Company of Menasha Corporation Publishes Annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report
- pfas in dairy farming
- Manufacturer plans $150 million in former Middletown Paper Mill
- CEPI warns policy makers of slow sustained erosion in Europe Paper Industry
- UW Madison the Power of Partnership at Lambeau Business and Education working together
- UW Stout Polytechnic’s Red Cedar Basin Monitoring Group trains water scientists
- Amcor to Expand Dongguan packaging site in China
- Wisconsin based Rockline Industries recognized with 2026 World of Wipes Innovation Award
- As US scientists look abroad China aims to lure top talent away from the US.
- Hoffmaster to invest $65 million to expand Clintonville manufacturing
- Amcor New President talks growth
Packaging
- Circular Economy Opportunities: How Nonwovens Are Helping Packaging Companies Innovate
- What actually happens to packaging after it leaves your hands
- Apple to drop older packaging with numerous upgrades
- Packaging Innovations Bath and Body and Blue Ocean & Sustainability
- How Paperboard became packaging biggest story
- Top Global Packaging Trends 2026
AI
- ai doesn’t just help us think it thinks instead of us
- What CTOS miss when they ignore data stewardship in their ai road maps
- How ai factories are redefining energy infrastructure
- Reckitt’s bold ambition harnessing AI to refine growth and revenue
- AI Designs personal burgers balances taste, nutrition, and sustainability
- Should Printing Companies add ai chat to their website
China
- China’ Paper and Pulp Update
- China’s Pulp Boom
- Why China continue investing in Pulp amid overcapacity in the paper industry
- China has changed- Germany has unveiled strategy to cut reliance on China.
- Chinese students stay local as tensions arise in the world
- We welcomed China into the global system. In return, China has exported oppression, aggression and anti-Americanism
- Bankrolled and bioengineered, China supplants Wisconsin paper industry
- China’s provides unfair global advantages to the paper and pulp industries
- When a Monopoly importer learned when it tried to make things in the U.S.A.
- Analysis shows cutting China reliance would cost West $23 trillion
- China’s paper industry provides unfair global advantage supported by the government
- Why China continues investing in Pulp amid overcapacity in the paper industry
Sustainability
- Georgia-Pacific announces plans to expand premium tissue capacity
- Corporate sustainability is now a resilience strategy
- The cost of climate change inaction
- Sustainability gap exposed only one fifth of executives are qualifying financial impact
- Sawdust based foam alternative to polystyrene for sustainability
- Flexible packaging market to hit $320 billion by 2031 as consumers demand sustainable packaging
- Five questions brands should ask before joining the next big sustainability conversation
- A decade of change in what drives corporate sustainability
- Plastic recycling technologies face challenges in plastic sustainability goals
Members
- Ahlstrom release and label papers from Brazil
- ECOVA: A paper alternative to Plastic Packaging
- Wiman Corporation installs third QC Corona Treatment System
- Sun Chemical Sustainability commitment
- Wrap your brand in ECOVA from Rapids Packaging
- BiOrgin: Oil and Grease Resistant Paper
- CLA Named Seramount’s 100 Best Companies for Fourth Consecutive Years
- First Business Bank Quarterly Market Review
- Sun Chemical metallic solution for high visibility packaging appeal
- CLA invites the Public to ribbon cutting at new headquarters
- Miron Construction and Excel to build $1 billion potato plant
- Paper Dimensions Paper Slitting, Rewinding, & Paper Converting
- First Business Bank Real Business Check Fraud
