Though the Canadian forest-products industry has gone apoplectic and stock traders have gone ape about "Son of Black Liquor" tax credits, there are growing doubts about the new tax loophole's prospects.
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For the second time in a year, the U.S. pulp and paper industry has hijacked a multi-billion dollar federal program that was supposed to promote new biofuels. What's being called Son of Black Liquor dwarfs the original black-liquor loophole that created such a stir in Congress and in Canada earlier
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"As we search for more ways to sell paper, especially grades involving printing of any kind, perhaps an idea worth examining is bundling more services with the paper."
The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) (1) schemes is celebrating another significant achievement with the news that all printed copies of The Economist will now carry the PEFC logo as an assurance of responsible paper procurement.
Jim writes, "You can't run a competitive business without selling, the function probably the least understood and hardest to successfully execute in any enterprise."
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In every issue of PaperMoney, we look at two components of PM40 (our index of Pulp and Paper companies) and see how they've performed over the last several years. Remember to click the link for the graphic.
While some magazine publishers get plenty of PR mileage from using paper with recycled content, the real leaders in making U.S. magazines greener have gone largely unheralded.
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"So what did we get for the money? What money? I am speaking of the funds invested by the industry and governments worldwide on pulp and paper research since about 1980. The short answer, of course, is not much."
The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC) (1) is celebrating the occasion of its 10-year anniversary in France with the erection of the first sustainable French billboard, high above the city on a rooftop situated near the “Porte de Clichy” in Paris’ 17th arrondisseme
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Is it coated or is it supercalendered? Only the paper mill knows for sure. We keep getting reports of SCA papers being made on coated machines, along with suspicions that the papers are actually coated rather than supercalendered.
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"About the attributes required in a research director, in business or a public institution, should I ever need to hire such a person... I want an equivalent of a Ferdinand Magellan."
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The Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC) (1) has agreed to sponsor the ‘Turning to Timber’ award, a new category for 2009 at this year’s Builder & Engineer Awards 09.
Two paper companies benefiting from multimillion-dollar U.S. black-liquor subsidies went on the attack today against subsidized coated paper from China and Indonesia.
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The movement to reduce the carbon footprint of printed products got a blessing recently when Zondervan announced a line of carbon-neutral Bibles to be sold only in Walmart.
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Jim's take: "Recently I had the opportunity to listen to a couple of fresh presentations on the "Biorefinery" concept. The more I listen to such concepts, the less persuaded I become that there is anything real here."
Don Meadows writes: "For business, especially during challenging economic periods, creative solutions and approaches can be a deciding factor in whether a company lives long and prospers, or tanks."
Now that the forest-certification movement is running out of steam, two groups involved in promoting sustainable forestry have responded by declaring war on each other.
"Despite all the books on job searches, despite all the seminars on resume writing, it seems many still miss the basics. Yet, the basics of resume writing are a clue to being a person who can keep (if they want) the position they already have."
"It is ironic how we treat our senior colleague's experience, ... We invest much time and treasure learning certain things others have already discovered... when it comes to gleaning direct experience from living breathing elder colleagues we often ignore what they have learned."
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Independent paper manufacturer Papeterie Zuber Rieder has announced the launch of Bagasse, a new eco-friendly and fully recyclable grade ideal for luxury packaging, greetings cards, business cards, invitations, annual reports and advertising purposes.
Look at that PM40! It is at nearly 1300-positive year-over-year. I am concerned that it may be a false situation due to the black liquor tax credit, something we won’t know for sure until the first quarter of 2010; however, for now it is humming along quite nicely. Long live the paper industry! -Ji
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