(India) The Union Government is exploring the possibility of allowing paper mills to develop wastelands to cultivate pulpwood and approve the technology upgradation fund to modernise paper mills...
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(USA) Registration begins today for "Sustaining the Industry, Paper Week 2009" and interest is high in its sessions and speakers focused on helping the pulp, paper, and packaging industry meet the dual--and potentially conflicting--needs of a tough economy and environmental stewardship...
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(Canada) "It is a sad case," Sharon Miller, Cochran's niece, said yesterday. "This lady literally had never had a jaywalking ticket. Everybody who knows this can't believe this. She was just a nice person." Miller and her husband, retired mill worker Ron Miller...
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(India) Heaps of waste paper emanating from paper mills in Orissa have now found good use - increasing the productivity of acidity-affected soil in the state. "The paper sludge piling up near different paper mills in the state is being collected and applied...
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(Sweden) The Metso supplied PM 12 at Stora Enso Kvarnsveden mill in Sweden has improved the world speed record of SC paper production. The machine reached a 24-hour record of 1,926 m/min on January 21st. The top speed achieved during the period was amazing 2,009 m/min...
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(USA) Two teams from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) have won first and second place in Paperboard Packaging Alliance's 2008 Student Design Challenge. This is the third consecutive year that FIT has taken top spots in the competition...
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(Sweden) The 2008 Alf de Ruvo scholarship was awarded to Malin Bergenstråhle and Stefan Lindström. Malin Bergenstråhle, Stockholm, received the scholarship for her research involving important contributions to the development of cellulose composites...
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(USA) Congratulations to TAPPI’s new Board of Directors: Dr. Gary M. Scott (SUNY), Davide R. Friedman (General Mills) and Thomas E. Rodencal (Consultant). Elected to begin their three year terms in March 2009, they will join Jeffrey J. Siegel (Mica Corporation) and Norman F. Marsola...
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(Belgium) RISI has announced that Norske Skog's CEO and President, Christian Rynning-Tonnesen, has been selected as European CEO of the Year for the pulp and paper industry. Rynning-Tonnesen will be presented with the award at RISI's 11th European Pulp & Paper Outlook Conference in Berlin, Germany.
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(Canada) The Honourable Lynne Yelich, Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, announced a Government of Canada investment of over $2.8 million toward the development and commercialization of world leading Canadian bio-energy technologies...
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(USA) Not many students look into the paper science major because they might not understand the benefits and security that paper products have for us today. Not only does University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point offer the major to interested students...
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(USA) From its humble start in 1873 as the Napanee Paper Company, Strathcona Paper has built a business on the strong foundations of continuous upgrades, modernization, research, industry leading environmental practices and capital investment...
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(Philippines) The flesh and seeds make up around 60 percent of the fruit, while the husk or skin which is generally considered waste material represents 40 percent or 21,880 metric tons. Hence, every year, we are producing around 22,000 metric tons of durian husk, which usually...
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(USA) In another sign of a groundswell occurring in the United States to the relentless dumping of multiple, useless paper phone books by telecom companies, a state legislator in Minnesota has introduced a bill to make receiving a paper phone book optional.
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(UK/USA) History was made yesterday (14th January) when full video conference of lay union reps and full time officials of the global union Workers Uniting, covering the pulp, paper and packaging sector took place in London, UK, Pittsburgh, Ohio and Menasah, Wisconsin, USA.
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