(USA) Robert (Bob) Taylor, CEO of Neucel Specialty Cellulose, has been announced as the Keynote Speaker for the 23rd Annual Process Industry Reliability and Maintenance (PIRM) Conference, to be held May 2 – 5 in Atlanta, GA, USA. PIRM is co-sponsored by TAPPI...
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(USA) The global pulp and paper industry has substantially increased its use of woody biomass for energy the past few years, which has consequently reduced dependence on fossil fuels, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. Since 2006, energy generated from biomass has gone up over 50%...
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(USA) Willis J. Potts Jr. will receive the 2010 TAPPI Herman L. Joachim Distinguished Service Award, established in 1994. It recognizes an individual for voluntary leadership and service that has significantly and demonstrably contributed to the advancement of TAPPI.
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(USA) TAPPI has honored Baum for his research by awarding him the 2009 Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal. Established in 1928, the Gold Medal is granted to those "who have made preeminent scientific and engineering achievements of proven applied benefit...
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The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC) [1] has announced that it is to hold the latest in its series of seminars, entitled, “Responsible Paper Procurement-Good for Business and the Environment”, the seminar is designed to provide a better understanding of the PEFC
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Now we can add tax breaks to the long list of valuable byproducts that come from the kraft pulping process. Several paper companies revealed last week that they have received or will receive millions of dollars from the U.S. government this year for using black liquor, a kraft-pulp byproduct, to po
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(USA) The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed a resolution calling on California to create a Do Not Mail Registry giving its citizens the choice to stop receiving unwanted junk mail...
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(USA) Big paper companies could each get hundreds of millions of dollars in cash payments from the Treasury this year by taking advantage of an alternative fuels tax credit in the 2005 highway bill, according to company filings and Wall Street analysts...
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(Australia) Paper manufacturers could be more inclined to use bagasse waste from sugar cane processing, as research has shown it can offer comparable performance to eucalyptus as a pulp feedstock for at least half the price.
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(Venezuela) Venezuela has begun an investigation into two paper companies, including U.S. giant Kimberly-Clark Corp. (KMB), for allegedly skirting government price controls on products, officials said Monday...
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(USA) International Paper Co.’s top executive received 4 percent less compensation in 2008 than in 2007, according to reports from The Associated Press. CEO John Faraci earned $10.3 million in 2008...
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(Belgium) RISI has announced the launch of a new awards program for the global pulp and paper industry. The 2009 Pulp & Paper International (PPI) Awards will honor leadership, vision, innovation and strategic accomplishments of companies, mills...
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(Belgium) This year’s European Paper Week will take as its theme ‘Building on paper’s values’. It will take place in the beautifully renovated Marivaux Hotel and Conference Centre in the heart of Europe - Brussels. The conference centre incorporates an old cinema complex and these...
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(India) As many as 80 workers of the government-owned handmade paper institute, here, and owners of over 150 small scale units on Monday demanded revival of the institute's daily business. The production unit of the institute is shut for the last five months...
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(USA) The Washington Post will stop publishing a business section six days out of the week and move business news to the front of the paper at a time when finance stories dominate world headlines...
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(India) The central government has in principle agreed to come out with a Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) for the benefit of the paper industry, an official of Indian Agro and Recycled Paper Mills Association (IARPMA) said today...
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(USA) He may be best known for developing an automated loom to make woven wire to form a paper sheet on a machine, but the list of accomplishments was long for the man who earned numerous patents...
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(USA) RISI has announced that several new speakers have been added to the conference programs of its industry-leading events in Europe and Asia. Three new speakers will join the program of RISI's 11th European Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference to be held...
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(India) The market for Collaborative Production Management for process industries (CPM-P) in Asia exceeded $462 million in 2008, accounting for a little over 21 percent of global revenues, according to an ARC Asia region study on CPM-P. The Pulp & Paper industry was among...
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(Canada) Upcoming labor talks with pulp and paper producers in Eastern and Central Canada could be the most difficult in the industry's history, with mills idled and and companies fighting to survive the downturn, a senior union official said...
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(USA) PaperAge magazine has announced that James A. Rubright, chairman and chief executive officer of RockTenn Company, has been named “Executive Papermaker of the Year.” Mr. Rubright will be honored at a ceremony in New York City on March 23, 2009...
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(Egypt) The International exhibition for paper, paperboard, tissue and converting industry 'Paper Middle East 2009' will be staged in Cairo - Egypt during 03 -05 October, 2009. The event is specially designed to help the paper companies to overcome the slow down economic to explore...
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(UK) Bexhill entrepreneur Dennis Marshall is making a killing selling his paper maché coffins - with orders coming in thick and fast since he told his story to the Observer two weeks ago...
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(USA) The Institute for Graphics and Imaging (IGI)—an education and training organization funded by and dedicated to the printing and graphic arts industry—has announced a two-day training course covering all aspects of papermaking, from the pulping of wood...
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