Recently added articles from PPI:
They're back (lawyers, that is)
Mar 01, 2009; ... I RECENTLY ATTENDED the annual meeting of the Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada (PAPTAC) . Many people still refer to this meeting as CPPA (the former Canadian Pulp and Paper Association) . At one time in this industry, Montreal was the place to be in January The meeting and ...
WHAT'S NEW
Mar 01, 2009; ... NEWS SHORTS FROM THE PULP AND PAPER WORLD CORPORATE STRATEGY International Paper to close its Inverurie mill in Scotland International Paper has announced that itwill close its Inverurie, Scotland, mill by the end of March. A three-month employee consultation process ...
CALENDAR
Mar 01, 2009; ... APRIL 2009 7-10: Sino-Corrugated 2009 Shanghai New International Expo Center, Shanghai, China, www.tappi.org MAY 2009 3-6: International Pulp Week Four Seasons Hotel, Vancouver, ...
GOOD MONTH FOR . . ./BAD MONTH FOR . . .
Mar 01, 2009; ... Nippon Paper Nippon Paper Group, Inc. and Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the group has entered into a sales and purchase agreement with PaperlinX Limited, the largest paper trading company in Australia, in relation to the acquisition by Nippon Paper of ...
ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
Mar 01, 2009; ... CANADA Newfoundland grants $300K toward paper recycling venture A new waste office paper (fiber) recycling effort in St. John's, NL, has received $300,000 in support from the Newfoundland and Labrador Green Fund, thereby diverting waste office paper from landfills and targeting ...
Is reliability still important?
Mar 01, 2009; ... IN THE PRESENT MARKET CONDITION with mill shutdowns and closures reported weekly, all costs are under scrutiny. This includes the cost of maintenance and many maintenance managers have seen their budgets cut back. The first to be cut are most probably cost items that do not immediately affect ...
MANAGING ASSETS AT MOHAWK
Mar 01, 2009; ... A new EAM system at Mowhawk Papers is providing detailed asset tracking and excellent support for maintenance planning In an industry with large, capital hungry equipment, efficient management and maintenance of assets is critical in keeping costs down. Paper manufacturers need tools ...
STAYING ON TOP THROUGH THE DOWNS
Mar 01, 2009; ... Despite all the economic doom and gloom, there is still a light at the end of the tunnel for the industry In a world dominated by downturn and bad economic news around every corner, it is refreshing to find a company's management that is able to see beyond the current turmoil. Karl ...
BEING ACCOUNTABLE TO THE CUSTOMER
Mar 01, 2009; ... The implementation of a new WMS has given Catalyst Paper immediate benefits at its distribution center in Western Canada In 2006, Catalyst Papers implemented SAP's warehouse management system (WMS) at its Surrey BC, distribution center (SDC) . Based on the success of this project, in ...
GETTING THE BALANCE RIGHT
Mar 01, 2009; ... Market conditions are bad,even in the tissue sector but according to Södra Cell International, work must go on in R&D Traditionally more immune to business cycles than commodity grades, tissue producers are nevertheless beginning to feel the effects of the global recession. According ...
HOW BIG IS YOUR WATER FOOTPRINT?
Mar 01, 2009; ... After carbon, H2O could be the next resource whose use the industry will have to account for Pulp and Paper producers could soon have to cope with a new set of environmental demands. Following the rapid rise of carbon footprinting, the next question for the industry looks like being "Are ...
THE FIBERLINE OF THE FUTURE
Mar 01, 2009; ... Environmental and social responsibility will join technology as driving forces for kraft pulp mill development The design of a modern 2 1 st Century pulping complex is dramatically different to mills of the past. Pressures to maximize energy efficiency, improve product quality, reduce ...
USE A MACHINE'S FULL CAPABILITY
Mar 01, 2009; ... A multivariable CD control application approach may be beneficial for certain applications; coordination is the key Cross-machine direction (CD) profile control has been a key area of advanced control applications in the paper industry since the early 1970s [1-11]. In the past 30 years, ...
SUPPLIER NEWS
Mar 01, 2009; ... AND DELIVERIES L.C. Paper Mill in Spain has recently started up its new tissue machine which has a POM Com pact wet end system. The machine has a 2.7m wire-width, 1800 m/min reel speed and 50,000 tonnes/yr production capacity. The soluwas chosen due to its production flexibility, high ...
Where is the downturn? Don't worry, it's on the way
Mar 01, 2009; ... DECEMBER DELIVERY STATISTICS surprised us by being positive - far too positive. Newsprint demand in Europe increased by 10.6% compared with December 2008 and SC magazine paper demand increased by whopping 24.3%, both hitting all-time highs. However, CMR demand still dropped, but only by 3.6%, ...
Now is the time
Feb 01, 2009; ... I SIT WRITING THE EDITORIAL this month shivering with cold in my home office. Today, in mid winter in this part of the world, I received my first power and light bills for the year 2009, and I was shocked beyond measure. In the latter part of last year, UK suppliers of gas and ...
WHAT'S NEW
Feb 01, 2009; ... NEWS SHORTS FROM THE PULP AND PAPER WORLD CORPORATE STRATEGY Botnia to close down Kaskinen pulp mill According to the Act on Cooperation in Companies at Oy Metsa-Botnia's Kaskinen (Finland) mill, the statutory negotiations to close Kaskinen mill have been completed ....
CALENDAR
Feb 01, 2009; ... MARCH 2009 22-24: AF&PA ANNUAL PAPERWEEK Waldorf Astoria, New York, NY, www.paperweek.org 23-26: TISSUE WORLD Acropolis, Nice, France, www.tissueworld.com 29-31: RISI European Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference Grand Hyatt Berlin, Berlin, ...
ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
Feb 01, 2009; ... AUSTRALIA Visy calls on event organizers to go green in 2009 Australian major events organizers are being urged to rock and recycle in 2009. The country's recycling giant Visy, is calling on all major event organisers to go green in 2009, building on its decade- long partnership ...
Refining control leads to energy savings
Feb 01, 2009; ... THERE ARE VARIOUS WAYS to specify and measure fiber properties. The instrument currently favored by the majority of mills measures the freeness, or Shopper-Riegler (SR), value. This instrument measures the dewatering speed of a fixed amount of fibers. Most mills use this value to control ...