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Clean water advocates accuse the the Halltown, W.V., recycled board mill of major pollution violations.

New Zealand-based Reynolds Group Holdings will buy the cup and carton converter for $400 million in cash.

The company's Yukon, Pa., box plant will undergo a three-phase upgrade over the next 12 months.

The company cited the depressed economy and high dollar as reasons for the closure.

Cancer concerns are not a danger in the U.S., according to the Recycled Paperboard Technical Association.

The productivity of American manufacturing is so strong that the average U.S. factory worker produced 43 percent more in the fourth quarter of 2010 than 10 years ago, NAM reports.

The company started work on the $17 million expansion in May and has hired more than 40 new employees.

A company made a nonbinding offer in November to acquire 100 percent of SSCC for $29 per share, which was rejected as too low.

Industry groups including NAM and the AF&PA say more public comment is needed.