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Paper and Packaging: A Mothers' Day Essential
Here at Ahead of the Curve we're great believers in the power of paper and packaging to improve our everyday lives. After all, our readers are the women and men who make paper possible! With Mother's Day approaching (Sunday, May 13), we have rounded up some of the ways that this heartfelt holiday simply wouldn't be the same without paper and packaging.
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Spotlight on Young Professionals
Workforce development issues are always top-of-mind for pulp and papermakers. In the face of the "silver tsunami" of retiring workers—especially in the manufacturing sector—attracting and hiring the best and brightest will be critical to our industry's future.
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Vision Quest, Part 3: Serial Vision
The problem with Vision is spelled out in my previous article, Vision Quest, Part 1: What You Get is Rarely What You Need. I wrote, "Most Visions (are) nothing more than a meaningless poster on the wall!" Until the problem is recognized, identified, and owned, nothing ever changes.
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Exhibit Spotlights Printing and Papermaking
Readers may recall our Ahead of the Curve article from November 1, 2017, which reported on a special project underway at The National Museum of Industrial History (NMIH). The project included plans to restore a rare 1933 miniature paper machine as part of a larger exhibit on the importance of printing and its role in spreading knowledge throughout the world.
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Recognizing Emerging Industry Leaders
Each year, TAPPI recognizes aspiring young leaders in the paper, packaging, tissue, and related industries in its Young Professionals of the Year awards. Eligible nominees can be up to age 35 with no more than 10 years of industry experience who have made significant contributions in the areas of Leadership, Community Service, or Problem Solving Contributions to Scientific or Engineering Projects.
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Will China's Recovered Paper Problem Become Your Problem?
Note: This article appears in the Sep/Oct issue of Paper360° and is provided here for Ahead of the Curve readers who may have missed it. View the entire issue here in the magazine's mobile device-friendly format.
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When Planning & Scheduling May Not Be the Problem
I often ask my kids, "What did you learn at school today?" and they universally reply, "Nothing." My son is about to graduate high school; according to him, he has learned "nothing" in the last 12 years.
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Reinvention brings rewards for Cascades Sonoco
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article in the forthcoming issue of Paper360°, and is offered here as an exclusive "sneak peek" for Ahead of the Curve readers. Read the full article in the May/June issue this week at paper360.tappi.org.
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RCM and the Myths of Human Error
I enjoyed reading Shane Bush’s article, “The Myths of Human Error,” in the July/August 2019 issue of Paper360°. (Read the article here.) Bush points out, “most of the influences on human error come from organizationally-controlled processes—for example, procedures, tools, or communication.”
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Anheuser-Busch and Sustainability
With more than 100 brands—including Michelob ULTRA, Busch, Stella Artois, Goose Island, and of course, Budweiser—no North American brewer is associated more closely with American beer (and Clydesdale horses) than Anheuser-Busch. The company was founded in 1852 and now has about 18,000 employees and 23 breweries that span the continental US from Los Angeles, CA, to Baldwinsville, NY. As a high-profile company that depends on natural resources, Anheuser-Busch takes sustainability very seriously.
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Creators Wanted in Modern Manufacturing
For the almost 950,000 workers in the US forest products industry, every day is “manufacturing day!” According to the American Forest and Paper Association, the forest products industry represents approximately 4 percent of US manufacturing GDP.
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Digitalization: The Key to Resource-Efficiency
The full-length version of this article originally ran in the July-August issue of Paper360°, and is excerpted here for AOTC readers who may have missed it.
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Trees Are Climate Change, Carbon Storage Heroes
J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, once wrote, “I longed to devise a setting in which the trees might really march to war.” If climate change is a battle for Earth’s survival, then trees will be a vital army holding the line. When Tolkien imagined trees marching to war, he couldn’t have foreseen how relevant those words would one day be.
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USDA Publishes Final Rule, Establishing Paper Check-off Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published the final rule for the Paper and Paper-based Packaging Promotion program (Paper Check-off). The rule establishes the program and states the assessment of 35 cents per short ton on printing and writing, containerboard, paperboard and Kraft paper will begin on March 1, 2014. Companies assessed are ones producing or importing 100,000 short tons or more of the four covered grades. Newsprint and carbonless papers are not included in the program.
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Producing heat and electricity together is an energy winner
Sometimes what’s old becomes new again, and cogeneration, which is more than 130 years old, is gathering momentum across the world.
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95% of Canadians can now recycle paperboard boxes, cartons
Canadians can no longer say they’d love to recycle their old paperboard boxes but can’t do it where they live. That’s because virtually all Canadians now have access to the convenient recycling of both corrugated boxes and paperboard or boxboard cartons. The actual access numbers, calculated by independent consulting firm CM Consulting, are 96% and 95% of Canadians, respectively. The numbers update a paper industry study conducted four years ago that placed access numbers in the 83% to 85% range.
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Coming up with brilliant ideas when the pressure's on
I define creativity as "the ability to develop great ideas while under pressure. Pressure creates diamonds, so why shouldn’t it also create great ideas?
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A Graduate’s Guide to getting Hired
Graduation is almost here. And while it’s a day you’ve been working toward for four (or more) years, the closer it gets the more your sense of dread escalates.
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Fish, Wildlife, and Bioenergy: The Opportunities
Fish, wildlife, and the habitats they depend on not only enrich our lives, they support our economy as well. Every year, outdoor recreation contributes US$887 billion to the US economy and supports 7.6 million jobs—1 in 20 of all US jobs. Hunting, fishing, and other wildlife-dependent recreation alone generates US$93.4 billion per year in America.
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What Papermakers Are Thankful For
Accounts of the “First Thanksgiving” vary; but we know that President Abraham Lincoln made it official in 1863 with a proclamation that read, in part: “The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies… I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving.”

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