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Ensuring a Tight Load
GRAEME RODDEN The following article is part of a special multi-part feature on Global Transport in the just-released July/August issue of Paper360°.
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China’s paper industry: Adjusting to change
MARK RUSHTON This article first appeared in the March/April issue of Paper360°, TAPPI’s member magazine
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Young Professionals get their own TAPPI division
Are you a young professional new to the pulp and paper industry? If so, here's a way to get a head start on the competition and become highly-involved in the industry by building valuable networks and gaining first-class knowledge directly relevant to your job?
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UPM Demonstrates Leadership in the European Publication Market
On November 13, 2014, UPM announced that they, as part of a major profit improvement initiative, will remove over 800,000 MT per year from the European publication paper market by permanently shutting down four paper machines in 2015.
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Corrugated Industry Stands Solid on New Package Cleanliness Research and Sustainability Facts
The first corrugated box was produced in the United States in 1895.
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Paper and paperboard demand forecast to grow by nearly a fifth by 2030
World demand for paper and paperboard is forecast to grow to 482 million tons in 2030, or 1.1 per cent per year, according to a new global paper market study, World Paper Markets up to 2030, by Pöyry Management Consulting.
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Beetle Plague Pushes Canadians to Stock-up on U.S. Lumber Mills
According to a report by Bloomberg News, in the 60 years since Bob Jordan III joined his family's North Carolina sawmill business, he hasn't seen anything quite like the Canadian invasion of the U.S. South's lumber industry.
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Moving maintenance from reactive to proactive
My experience has taught me that most folks working in the pulp and paper industry don't have an understanding of what it takes to change a reactive maintenance department to a proactive and reliable one.
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SCA will Split into Two Listed Companies in 2017
The new hygiene company will receive a new name and be registered in Stockholm, and the forest products company will keep the name SCA.
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Creating 3D-printed prostheses from forest raw materials
How can an artificial limb be made a little less… artificial? When it is produced using renewable forest materials to create a highly-customizable, more environmentally-friendly prosthetic at a more reasonable cost for patients and providers.
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Frequency re: reliability
Q: In your sixth bullet point you state, "It is vital to take into account how a failure’s consequence affects safety, environment, quality, and/or production, and under no circumstance allow consequence of failure to determine frequency of inspection." We could not rationalize this one.
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BDC Symposium focused on Canadian/US Bio Industry
The Biorenewable Deployment Consortium (BDC) Fall Symposium was held in Ottawa, Ontario in September and was combined with a site visit to Ensyn’s production facility in Renfrew, just outside of Ottawa.
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Agenda 2020 Workshops Develop Technology Research Agenda
The Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance conducted two advanced manufacturing workshops in September at the Renewable Bioproducts Institute, Georgia Tech.
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Climate change a bigger threat to landscape biodiversity than emerald ash borer
“We really wanted to focus on isolating the impact of the emerald ash borer on biodiversity, forest composition, biomass, and other factors,” said Stacey Olson
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Li Hongxin of Shandong Sun Paper named Asian CEO of the Year
Shandong Sun Paper is one of China’s powerhouse manufacturers.
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Georgia Tech Student Recognized for Forest-based Industry Research
Undita Ringania is still a student, but she has already gained international recognition for her innovative work.
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World's first sculptural paper art museum opens in Berlin
Over the years, we have explored many exciting new uses for paper and its components, lignin and cellulose, here in Ahead of the Curve. This week’s news brings us an opportunity to showcase a new museum that honors one of the oldest—and as philosophers may argue, highest—ways that paper can be used in human culture: as art.
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What is Our Industry’s Most Critical Workforce Need?
This article is provided to Ahead of the Curve readers as a “sneak peek” at the forthcoming March/April 2021 issue of Paper360°, which includes a feature section on workforce issues. Check www.paper360.tappi.org.
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Cellulose-based food packaging moves to testing phase
The following article comes from a VTT news release dated January 28, 2021. VTT is one of Europe’s leading research institutions; see below for more details.
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Four Technology Megatrends to Transform the Paper and Board Industries in the 2020s
The paper industry has had a year of unprecedented disruption. Reacting to a marketplace reshaped by Covid-19 has made embracing new technologies a priority in North America and globally.

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