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    Your weekly installment of new knowledge, sponsored by Valmet. Each week’s e-newsletter brings you one featured article, selected by TAPPI’s editors, on new research, business/technology trends, industry markets, or upcoming events – a range of topics geared toward industry professionals. You’ll also get a pulp and paper industry-specific article from the tech experts at Valmet. With more than 27,000 subscribers, Ahead of the Curve delivers engaging info that readers can use today to prepare for tomorrow.

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    2015 Begins with a Rollercoaster Ride
    The world economy sometimes feels like a rollercoaster and the beginning of 2015 is one of those times.
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    North American advanced biofuel industry produced 800+ million gallons in 2014
    Smart clean fuel policies in the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, and California and at the federal level could drive additional job growth, improve air quality, and generate more homegrown energy.
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    Domtar helps customers trace the impact of paper purchases
    Domtar Corporation has announced significant updates to The Paper Trail®, its award-winning interactive tool that helps customers trace the impacts of their paper purchases.
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    Millicent mill sets best practice for global company
    “It is tough being a manufacturer in Australia at the moment," according to Scott Whicker, Mill Manager of the Kimberly-Clark Millicent Mill located in Mount Gambier in [Australia's] southeast.
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    Report says print buyers want more attention from the paper industry
    Today’s corporate and agency print buyers are also specifiers of paper for their commercial print jobs.
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    A pulp and paper rebirth
    After years of downsizing, the pulp, paper and packaging business—one of Georgia’s largest industries—is quietly being revitalized.
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    Survey gauges mill use of proactive safety recognition/incentive programs
    In December 2014, the Pulp and Paper Safety Association conducted a survey among nearly 100 pulp and paper companies in North America to determine what proactive safety recognition/incentive programs were used within the industry.
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    In 2015, Rewire Your Culture Around Service
    For years you've tried to improve your customer service. You've trained and trained (burning through too many initiatives to count), but the results never seem to stick.
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    Agenda 2020 conducts second open forum to develop breakthrough technology opportunities
    The pulp and paper industry has the potential to use advanced technologies to help mills become more efficient and sustainable. In fact, there are many examples of such technologies in use in today's mills.
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    Research & Development in the Pulp and Paper Industry
    A recent Paper 360° article (“Pulp and Paper Innovations,” July/August 2014), highlighted eight significant innovations: aseptic packaging, chlorine-free bleaching, high filler content paper, twin wire forming retrofits, extended nip presses, highly energy efficient chemical recovery boilers, millwide control systems, and biochemical production.