Norampac buys corrugated products converting plant in Lancaster ...
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MONTREAL (CP) - Cardboard producer Norampac Inc. has bought AIM Corrugated Container Corp., which owns a corrugated products converting plant located in Lancaster, NY.
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PITTSBURGH (CP) - Nova Chemicals Corp., which moved its head office from Calgary to Pittsburgh about three years ago, plans to merge its European styrenic polymers business into a joint venture with Britain's BP plc.
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By Matt Garfield, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Feb. 2--One of York County's most prominent companies is about to get a new competitor.
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KINGSEY FALLS, Que. (CP) - Papermaker and cardboard producer Cascades Inc. will open a sales office in Obninsk, about 90 kilometres southwest of Moscow, in a strategic bid to push the Quebec company's products on the Russian market.
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Noranda, Canada's largest mining company, said on Friday that it may be acquired by the China Minmetals Corporation in a deal worth more than $4.7 billion.
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SYDNEY/LONDON  - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc   signed a $38.1 billion cash deal to buy Canada's Alcan Inc. , creating the world's biggest aluminum producer, the companies said on Thursday, trumping a hostile offer from Alcoa Inc .
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Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc.  G.TO GG.N plans to buy competitor Wheaton River Minerals  Ltd WRM.TO WHT.A for $2.09 billion in stock, the companies  said in a statement, marking further consolidation in the  mining industry.
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A privately owned Dutch company is buying International Steel Group -- the operator of the Sparrows Point plant near Baltimore.
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Nexen Inc. has agreed to buy a UK-based subsidiary of EnCana Corp. in an all-cash deal worth $2.1 billion, enabling Canada&#39;s fourth largest oil explorer to expand into the UK sector of the North Sea.
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By Aimee Dolloff, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec. 14--Operating permits for the former Georgia-Pacific Corp. paper mill have been transferred to the facility's new owner, but some area residents are opposing the approval.   The state Department of Environmental Protection on Nov.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Alcan Inc. is buying a food packaging plant in Poland in an effort to increase the Montreal-based aluminum and packaging company's reach into Eastern Europe.
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Colorado Springs-based Westmoreland Coal Co. (AMEX: WLB) will buy LG&amp;E Energy&#39;s 50 percent stake in a North Carolina power project for $125 million.
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Cargill Inc. in Minnetonka has sold eight of its steel-making facilities, including operations in St. Paul and Duluth, to Gerdau Ameristeel in Toronto for a total of $266 million.
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A North American energy company which operates a major North Sea oil field is selling its British division for 2.1 billion (Â£1.14 billion), it was announced today.
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China Minmetals Corp has entered into exclusive talks to acquire mining group Noranda, the Canadian firm announced.
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By John Edison, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 20--Alerus Securities has entered into an agreement with a company behind a Richardton, N.D., corn-to-ethanol plant to act as a qualified matching service for trading membership units.
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TORONTO -- One of Canada&#39;s largest and best-known miners, Noranda Inc., is in exclusive talks to be acquired by a Chinese metals producer, the two companies confirmed Friday.