Slovenian-based woodfree paper manufacturer Goricane has announced that its flagship brand Sora Matt paper grade is now Laser Guaranteed, making it suitable for all types of laser printing.
Don Meadows hits some highlights of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) 2008–2009 Forest Products Annual Market Review in this issue's Editorial.
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"the world wide pulp and paper industry adopt[ed] a goal of reducing the weight of an installed paper machine by 50% (on an equivalent unit width basis) by 2025"?
The last two weeks of Nip Impressions have discussed the benefits of a pulp and paper "moon shot".
Pulp and paper mills in the United States earned more than $3 billion in controversial "black liquor" credits during the first half of this year, a Dead Tree Edition analysis shows.
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Austrian-based paper manufacturer Lenzing Papier has been shortlisted for the Environmental Strategy of the Year (Company) award in the Pulp and Paper International (PPI) Awards 2009. The PPI Awards are the only global awards dedicated to recognizing achievements in this sector.
Here's a true man-bites-dog story: A paper company is accusing Greenpeace of selling out by setting its standards for eco-friendly paper too low and for backing off on its efforts to protect Canada's boreal forest.
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Arctic Paper’s UK Business Development Manager, Mark Soale has embarked on a national tour of merchant stockist PaperCo’s sales offices to deliver the Amber product brand awareness campaign and demonstrate the excellent qualities of the range.
The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) (1) schemes is celebrating a significant achievement with the news that all 18million copies of the latest Argos shopping catalogue now carry the PEFC logo.
Earlier in June, PEFC (1) held its Annual General Meeting in London with a cross section of PEFC’s diverse membership attending to hear Chairman Peter Latham present the organisation’s Annual Report.
"It is apparent that the pulp and paper industry in Brazil is addressing a number of relevant issues and remains vital through the economic downturn that has affected the rest of the world." Discover how PaperMoney Editor Don Meadows came to this conclusion at globalpapermoney.org
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"Sorry, but if your mill has the philosophy; "If only they would give us money for significant capital expenditures, this mill can survive" you are dead."
With the Wall Street Journal's bogus claim this week that "e-textbooks are environmentally friendly", it's time to fight back. Here's a blow-by-blow comparison of "dead dinosaur editions" (digital editions) vs. "dead tree editions" (print).
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News Flash: Quebecor World has apparently worked out a deal with some of its lenders and goes back to U.S. bankruptcy court at 3:30 EDT tomorrow (July 16) for a hearing on an amended reorganization plan.
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"We could use more [common sense innovation] in the pulp and paper industry... I think the reason we don't do more of this, is because we are not trained to think this way and we tend to look disparagingly at ideas from unconventional sources."
A new approach to producing newspapers in the U.S. had a colorful beginning this week when production of the San Francisco Chronicle was outsourced to a new plant built and run by Transcontinental Inc. The combo coldset/heatset presses can print on everything from newsprint to coated paper.
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(USA) In the latest failure to strike the US media market, a startup which aimed to revitalize and revolutionize the newspaper by reprinting blogs folded on Tuesday. The Printed Blog -- hyper-localized free papers that offered businesses the same kind of targeted and cheap ads found...
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