"It is unethical, if not immoral, to attempt to save a mill making grades in rapid decline, especially if that mill is far off the beaten path and has obsolete equipment."
How do you make paper without fiber? It’s hard to do. China does not have large softwood fiber forests necessary to produce newsprint and other groundwood grades. Therefore, its newsprint industry is almost entirely dependent on domestic waste paper recovery and waste paper imports. In spite of
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
U.S. printers are hearing environmentally themed messages from both sides on the question of whether to buy Asian paper. Ten environmental groups issued a letter to printers and paper buyers today asking them not to buy paper from Eagle Ridge Paper, a division of Asia Pulp and Paper.
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
In this issue's editorial, Don Meadows recounts a recent bout with an online retailer and takes a broad view of customer service and order fulfillment.
With so much confusion in the mainstream news media and Congress about black-liquor subsidies for U.S. pulp mills, it's time to set the record straight.
Denmaur Independent Papers, one of the UK’s leading independent paper merchant groups, is delighted to announce that it has received the NAPM (National Association of Paper Merchant’s) Recycled Paper Mark endorsement for its Amadeus 50% Recycled range – the double coated silk and gloss paper range
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
We have two new paper updates available: How Weak Are Coated Prices?, and The Thunder Bay Re-Start is Not Additional Capacity for AbitibiBowater. Just scroll down on the home page to reports dated Feb 11.
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
Jim's take on one reason businesses aren't hiring: "The balance of the relationship between employer and employee has moved radically in favor of the employee in the last forty years. At the same time, improving technology has given employers options which do not represent a potential lawsuit."
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
Senate Democrats started circulating a proposed jobs bill Tuesday that would be paid for partly by closing the "Son of Black Liquor" tax loophole. But a government official confirmed that the supposed loophole for U.S. pulp and paper companies doesn't even exist.
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
Supply and demand for waste paper grades was more-or-less in balance in the ‘90s. Demand was sufficient to consume all the waste paper that was being recovered. The situation changed radically on the ‘00s, however.
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
Check out the feedback from last week's Nip Impressions in this week's issue. Further proof that Paperitalo products are Publications People Read (tm).
The newsprint industry needed to remove another million tonnes or so of capacity this year (in addition to the indefinitely idled tonnes) to bring supply and demand in balance and thus stimulate a sustained price advance. Instead of removing capacity, 600,000 tonnes (annualized) have re-started ove
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
(USA) Burrows Paper Corporation has announced the expansion of its sales department and concurrently, the hiring of Steven E. Ford as Food Service Distribution Sales Manager...
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
Studying the fine print of tax legislation helped IP earn more than $2 billion last year in black liquor credits from the federal government. It announced today that it is getting $516 million in black liquor credits for the 4th Quarter of 2009 and yet lost $101 million during the quarter.
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
Paperitalo Publications surveys the worldwide pulp and paper industry on a different current topic on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Summaries of those surveys are available here.
Market Harborough-based public relations, marketing and research consultants Collins Scott Marketing, has announced the launch of a new service platform, which will enable clients and customers to obtain a full visitor report and breakdown on exhibitions and conferences, without leaving their desk.
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
"Our industry associations have done a very poor job...at defending our business in the court of public opinion...It is as if a bunch of papermakers, otherwise macho beyond reason, are suddenly cowered when it comes to facing the public."
This is a story about an ex-supermodel, a messy and well-publicized divorce, a possible goof by The New York Times, and a major newsprint company that may -- or may not -- be on the verge of bankruptcy.
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
Pity the Pacific salmon: It expends all its energy swimming upstream, then gets screwed and dies. Several North American papermakers know the feeling, as evidenced by several events this past week:
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
"How much is spent every year by your storeroom on things they already have, but do not know where they are?"
Read Jim's thoughts on how being organized can lead to be savings.
Nip Impressions: Pulp and paper insight, delivered to your inbox weekly. Always insightful; never boring.
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
Read Jim's thoughts on how being organized can lead to be savings.
Nip Impressions: Pulp and paper insight, delivered to your inbox weekly. Always insightful; never boring.">
| Bookmarks
Leading independent paper merchant Premier Beswick, part of the Premier Paper Group, has sponsored employee Simon Bennett, who is undertaking an enormous feat for the Help for Heroes charity by trekking to Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal, which is at a height of 5,585 metres.
"Day-to-day, we deal with such large numbers that they are essentially meaningless to us beyond being big, really big, even bigger, extremely big, and so big it makes my head spin.
The real meaning in the numbers becomes apparent and is best appreciated if we focus on one."
A decade ago, a prominent U.S. paper executive used to refer to Finns as "communists" -- until a Finnish company bought his firm. Now it's the Finns' turn to complain about America's paper industry, weak currency, and government subsidies.
read more » Discuss Add this link to... Tell a friend Add to:
| Bookmarks
Discuss
Add this link to...
Tell a friend
Posted by
PaperOtherAbsoluteTruths
19 days ago
(http://absolute-truths.com)
