Just when the wheels had fallen off the attempt to raise North American coated-groundwood prices, the wagon started rolling again today. NewPage announced a $30-per-ton increase on coated-groundwood (CGW) and coated-freesheet (CFS) prices to take effect on Monday.
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Tharstern has produced a new brochure, highlighting its T4 Management Information System (MIS) business management solution for packaging and carton manufacturers.
"We can now put a date on the beginning of the final gasps of the use of paper for communications purposes. It was the last week of February/first week of March 2010."
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Sometimes, fear is an appropriate response. Pulp buyers should be in fear right now. Pulp supply in the U.S. south has been slowed dramatically due to wet weather conditions. Now, we hear that eastern Canada also has weather problems (with warmer and wetter weather than usual) that will significant
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Austrian-based specialist label papers and flexible packaging papers producer Brigl & Bergmeister has announced the appointment of Michael Sablatnig as its new Managing Director.
"Some senior executives in our industry [took] big bonuses while their company prepared to file for bankruptcy. Sound familiar?...We can do little, if anything, about bad apples at the top, but we can certainly help clear up communications for everyone who works for us."
The $6.5 billion in controversial black-liquor credits earned in 2009 by 21 publicly traded pulp and paper companies was far more than their total profit for the year. Exclusive analysis lists the black-liquor credits each company received from the U.S. government and its 2009 net income.
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Appleton Coated, NewPage, Sappi, and the United Steelworkers (USW) received the good news from the commerce department late yesterday. The full press release is helpful and available here at, News Release – 030210 – Trade Case FINAL . In summary…
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Danny Williams, the premier of Newfoundland practically ran AbitibiBowater out of the province. The “Chavez of the North” promised union members and communities that the AbitibiBowater mills would never close. At the same time he was making those promises he was openly hostile to the company. This
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Brussels, Belgium, – 2 March, 2010 – International Paper, the world’s largest paper and packaging company, has re-launched its PRO-DESIGN™ colour laser paper range, encompassing an increased product range offering, with new weights also being added.
Company gets PEFC Certified to Offer Customers Assurance that Wood is from Legal & Sustainable forest in Russia
ST.PETERSBURG (2 MARCH 2010) – The first ever PEFC sustainable forest management certificate in Russia has been issued to Metsäliitto Podporozhye, PEFC announced today. The certificate
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Jim's column this week begins: "I think a dismal view of the status and prospects for the world wide pulp and paper industry is an age related phenomenon." Find out why at
The spectacular new technology that enables energy producers to extract natural gas from shale deposits is a revolutionary development. It is the energy miracle that the U.S. needed.
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AbitibiBowater stunned its North American customers today by announcing a huge price increase for coated paper – a move that is already DOA, thanks to Abitibi’s competitors.
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Exactly 30 days ago, I chided The New York Times for implying that White Birch Paper was on the verge of bankruptcy. White Birch, North America's second largest newsprint manufacturer, filed for bankruptcy protection in both Canada and the United States today.
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(India--Feb 23, 2010-(PTI)- Indian paper industry today failed to get any relief from the Delhi High Court over the government's decision of not imposing safeguard duty on imports of coated paper and paper board.
It is a relaxed and somewhat pleased Ben Gunneberg I find greeting me at the Paperworld 2010 exhibition in a wintry and snowbound Frankfurt.
PEFC’s Director General has just arrived hot foot from his base in Geneva, and clearly has a message to relay to Paperworld visitors.
“Currently PEFC remain
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(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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It is now clear that NewPage is re-starting two coated machines that had been idled due to a lack of orders. This development is important for at least two reasons. First, it confirms that coated backlogs have improved significantly. Second, it delays coated pricing improvement.
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The Obama Administration announced today that it wants to close the non-existent "Son of Black Liquor" loophole to help "pay" for new healthcare legislation. Then Democrats won a key vote on a jobs bill that would be paid for partly with the "savings" from closing the same mythical loophole.
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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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