Business Books = Wasted Wood PulpWould they actually be "business" books or......something like philosophy books? Likely the latter since it's stuff like Aristotle's Poetics that has influenced writing in general and marketing in particular.
The pulp and paper industry depends on a long and integrated supply chain. It starts in forest harvest areas as trees and ends as multiple products used in all persons daily usage. The lead time from the first step to the last is long and it involves many steps operated...
Evergreen Pulp, a subsidiary of China's Lee & Man, is considering acquiring Weyerhaeuser's 140,000-tonne/yr dissolving specialty market pulp mill In Cosmopolis, Washington state.
In recent years, the U.S. pulp and paper industry has experienced an increasing degree of consolidation through a series of mergers and acquisitions. Based upon a structure-conduct-performance model and using panel data for the pulp, paper, and paperboard sectors from 1970 to 1997, this paper investigates the effect of industry...
The U.S. pulp and paper industry has experienced an increasing degree of consolidation through a series of mergers and acquisitions. Based upon a structure conduct-performance model and using panel data for the pulp, paper, and paperboard sectors from 1970 to 1997, this paper investigates the effect of industry structure on...
This study examines in greater depth and breadth than previous studies the prospective costs and benefits of commercializing black liquor gasification combined cycle BLGCC cogeneration systems. The analysis was carried out with guidance from an industry-government Steering Committee, with review by a board of independent experts, and with inputs from...
Mercer International is set to invest in a 550,000 ton/yr kraft pulp mill in Germany, which could lead to the company exiting papermaking altogether to concentrate on pulp. Mercer has entered into an agreement with Zellstoff Stendal to build a pulp mill in the Sachsen-Anhalt area of Germany. The company...
As Port of Bellingham's Director of Environmental Programs Mike Stoner tours the former Georgia-Pacific pulp mill site, he points out where machinery and buildings used to be--and now there's only rubble. As the pulp mill has slowly been disassembled As Port of Bellingham's Director of Environmental...
Absorbent product manufacturer Kimberly-Clark, Dallas, TX, will close its Mobile, AL pulp mill in September 1999. The pulp mill produces 560,000 metric tons of southern kraft pulp annually, which is used by K-C's ...Absorbent product manufacturer Kimberly-Clark, Dallas, TX, will close its Mobile, AL pulp mill...
The article is about the pulp and paper industry discussing about the supply chain improvement. A survey of suppliers and paper company purchasing executives reveals that major cost reductions are possible with continuous improvement-based, gain-sharing agreements. The realities of the pulp and paper industry are tight market conditions, shrinking...
This paper examines the impact of the digital age on the pulp and paper industry from a supplier perspective. Issues such as structure, speed, data security and regulation will be examined. Canada is one of the most advanced nations in the world in terms of use of the Internet in...
Buckeye Technologies, Memphis, TN, has formed an exclusive agreement with Nippon Paper Chemicals Company, Tokyo, Japan, to market Nippon's specialty sulphite pulps in 50 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East an Buckeye Technologies, Memphis, TN, has formed an exclusive agreement...
FOXBORO, Mass. -- World's largest single-line bleached eucalyptus pulp mill in Brazil will utilize advanced automation technology from Foxboro and SimSci-Esscor
The pulp and paper industry is highly competitive. Many producers have resigned themselves to the fact that they have little to no pricing power in the market. The widely accepted view is that this is a commodity market and prices and profits rise and fall in accordance with supply and...
DEMAND FOR sodium chlorate is robust, bolstered by a vibrant pulp and paper industry and the looming Environmental Protection Agency EPA deadline for converting to elemental chlorine-free ECF bleaching. Healthy demand and soaring energy costs h DEMAND FOR sodium chlorate is robust, bolstered by...
In the pulp and paper industry, energy-improving measures are intimately linked to the design and operation of, and connections between, the large energy-consuming parts of the plant. Many of the changes in the energy systems of this industry now being demonstrated and discussed are connected with heat, so the report...
Long after the paper bag became the standard package in which consumers could carry home everything from groceries to clothing to hardware products, the use of the material as a packaging medium has continued to evolve. Paperboard cartons, offering Long after the paper bag...