The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is pleased to announce winners of the 2018 Green Dream program.
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Resolute announced today investments totalling $12.3 million in three sawmills, Saint-Thomas, Girardville...
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Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc.
, North America's largest privately-owned manufacturer of fine papers, envelopes and specialty materials for printing, announces the launch of Keaykolour by
Arjowiggins Creative Papers
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High-intensity storms cause billions of pounds of damage every year, and climate change is set to make this worse in future.
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Resource Jobs Are Key To Strong Communities, Says Nighbor
Canadian industries will continue to work with Ottawa in the hope of addressing cross-border trade issues and regulatory challenges that impact their competitiveness.
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Today, forest products companies have a growing interest in digital transformation.
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American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) President and CEO Donna Harman underscored the value of the California paper industry to the economy and the industry's important role in recycling and paper recovery ahead of California Advocacy Day.
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A Delta, B.C.-based forestry company facing allegations of over-logging on Haida Gwaii says it has stopped all logging operations in disputed areas, and as a result has laid off many of its employees.
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Containerboard production was up 1.5 percent compared to May 2017 and up 0.8 percent year-to-date. The month-over-month average daily production compared to April 2018 was 1.5 percent higher.
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President Donald Trump's savaging of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has gotten a good deal of attention for its sheer weirdness — why scapegoat one of America's most loyal allies and benign trading partners?
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One of Donald Trump's protectionist "America first" policies is partly to blame for making home ownership too costly for more than one million Americans.
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ABB announced that global pulp & paper trade organization TAPPI recently honored a team of ABB experts, Dr. Shih-Chin Chen, Ake Hellstrom and ChangYuan Liu,...
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Glatfelter, a global supplier of specialty papers and engineered materials, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Georgia-Pacific's European nonwovens business (the "Business") for $185 million,...
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Boise Paper, a division of Packaging Corporation of America, has offered a 99.99% Jam-Free Guarantee® on their Boise POLARIS® Premium Multipurpose paper since 2009...
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Caraustar Industries, Inc. announced a minimum price increase of 9.0% on all protective packaging products. The increase will be effective with orders placed on and after July 19, 2018.
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International Paper today announced that Timothy S. Nicholls has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Glenn R. Landau who is leaving the company for personal reasons.
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The Swedish pulp producer Rottneros, the fuel company Preem and the bioenergy development company RenFuel have signed an agreement to build a lignin plant at the Vallvik kraft mill. The planned capacity is 25,000 - 30,000 tonnes of lignin which will be converted to Lignol in Vallvik and further refined to petrol and diesel by Preem.
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At the Pro Carton AGM on 8th June 2018 Roland Rex formally stood down as President of the association after eight years in the role and Horst Bittermann was duly elected as his replacement.
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Using the testbed LignoCity in Kristinehamn, Sweden, RISE together with partners has shown how lignin can be used to produce both bioplastics, biocoatings, bioresins, biofuels as well as carbon fibre for lightweight applications and energy storage.
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The new easy-to-use coater from Voith achieves excellent color application without an additional enclosure. As a result, the DynaLayer from Voith improves the cost efficiency of paper production and offers an efficient alternative to conventional coaters.
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Valmet will supply an off-line multinip calender for UPM Nordland Papier at its Dörpen Mill in Germany. The new off-line calender including Valmet's machine control system will be designed to give the final high quality for the demanding release and glassine paper grades after the grade conversion rebuild.
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The management of Resolute is proud of its employees' workplace safety record reached at La Doré and Girardville sawmills, in Quebec. Mobilizing all employees from both sawmills has meant that we have surpassed the threshold of 1,250,000 working hours and 500,000...
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FPInnovations researchers recently visited Finland as part of the PulPaper 2018 Exhibitions & Conferences, a leading international forum for the forest-based industries that took place May 29-31 in Helsinki. Held under the theme Visit tomorrow today, the event reached over 9000 visitors.
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Stora Enso and Sulapac have signed a joint development agreement to combat the global problem of plastic waste by accelerating the use of fully renewable, recyclable and biodegradable materials in packaging.
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The concept of forest certification, which ensures that the forests used to create pulp and paper products will continue to remain environmentally viable after harvest, has existed for more than 20 years.
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European institutions have come to an initial agreement on the revised Renewable Energy Directive. UPM Biofuels welcomes the agreement as it creates an obligatory advanced biofuel blending mandate in all EU Member States starting at 0.2% in 2022, double counted, and rising to 3.5% in 2030.
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SDSU doctoral student receives NASA Earth Science Fellowship
How much carbon is stored in the Brazilian Amazon forest?
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Production at the expanded Östrand pulp mill began according to plan during the midsummer holiday (i.e. this weekend). SCA is investing SEK 7.8bn in the operation and the project is on budget and schedule.
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Elopak is the first manufacturer to deliver over one billion 100% renewable cartons after launching beverage cartons featuring certified renewable polyethylene (PE) in 2014.
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Paper & Beyond is the successor event to what has been known as European Paper Week and will take place in the heart of the European district, in Brussels' Solvay Library, from 16 to 17 October.
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Total European shipments of graphic papers were down 0.3% in April '18 vs. April '17 and are down 3.5% year-to-date.
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Smurfit Kappa Tops Sector in Extel Survey for Second Consecutive Year
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One of these projects is "Operational forest mapping with drones and artificial intelligence," which aims to develop methods for using drones and artificial intelligence to create automatic and instantaneous maps for forestry.
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Iggesund Paperboard, a subsidiary within the Holmen group, is currently implementing efficiency measures to secure an efficient business and safeguard the long-term profitability of Iggesund Mill.
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BIOFOR International 2019, PAPTAC's flagship conference dedicated to the forest bioeconomy will again run in parallel with the highly attended PaperWeek Canada, Feb. 4-7, 2019 at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal (QC, Canada), and will feature the theme:
Discover why the Bioeconomy continues to rise.
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