Jim writes: "Most of my adult life I have heard the mantra, "We have to save energy!" I have never heard anyone provide a meaningful reason (or a "why") we should save energy."
We were confident that coated and SC-A prices would soon soon begin a sustained recovery – if not initially due to the supply/demand balance, then then due to machine closures that would then impact the supply/demand balance.
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Despite a Democratic Congressman almost ruining the scheme by committing a cardinal political sin – He told the truth! – the historic healthcare legislation President Obama signed today assumes $23.6 billion in savings from eliminating a mythical black liquor tax credit.
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What was NewPage thinking when the company decided not to increase prices on March 1, but then changed directions and announced an increase on March 10? We offer a couple of possible explanations in this report. - Also, in our Weekly Feature we compare access to health care in the U.S. with access
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Brussels, Belgium, – 22 March, 2010 – International Paper, the world’s largest paper and packaging company, has launched new packaging for its Rey, eco-friendly range of office papers.
Austrian-based specialist label papers and flexible packaging papers producer Brigl & Bergmeister will have its NiklaPET label papers demonstrating their print speed and versatility on printing press manufacturer Heidelberg’s presses at this year’s Ipex exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC in May.
"We have spent a lot of time lately talking about obsolete pulp and paper mills...there is a mistaken notion that old and obsolete are synonymous, interchangeable terms. Not true."
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That “always darkest before the dawn” thing is the rule in paper pricing. “Need” has no impact on pricing, neither did the Black Liquor credits, and costs are of no consequence (except as costs relate to closures). So the legitimate question, when AbitibiBowater announced a $60/ton coated groundwoo
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Here’s a way for Democrats to pass their ambitious healthcare and jobs proposals without looking like budget busters: Persuade Google to buy a pulp mill – specifically a U.S. mill that makes kraft pulp and its infamous by product, black liquor.
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Today we discovered what NewPage had up its sleeve when it announced a price increase for coated groundwood paper on Friday: It knew that Domtar was about to close its Columbus, Mississippi mill.
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ITC has achieved yet another milestone in its environmental journey. India's largest integrated pulp and paper and paperboard manufacturing facility of ITC at Bhadrachalam has been awarded the FSC Chain of Custody certificate. It is the most widely respected certification for responsible fibre sour
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Verso Paper told its customers today it was going along with the April 1 price increase on coated paper announced last week by NewPage and applying it to supercalendered papers as well.
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