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The Official Review and Coverage of PaperWeek Canada 2013
With new and exciting elements to the program, addressing the needs and the evolution of the industry, such as seminars on Tissue and Paper Machine Clothing, the premiere of Fibre Day and the 1st edition of the PaperWeek National Job Fair, and an outstanding increase of the total attendance of over 60%, the 2013 edition of PaperWeek was without a doubt a great and successful Innovation Journey! Read more
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Buckeye Technologies Inc. and Georgia-Pacific LLC today announced that they have reached a definitive agreement for Georgia-Pacific to ... more
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Resolute Forest Products is to lay off 110 workers at its Thunder Bay newsprint plant for two weeks starting Wednesday. more
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Members of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada Local 39 have voted down a proposal from Resolute Forest Products to eliminate jobs through contracting out. more
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Last month, the Quebec-based Les Affaires and TREBORA Conseil awarded its Green CEO Hommage award for promoting sustainable ... more
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NewPage Corporation announced today the twenty-fifth anniversary of UniTherm®, a family of pressure sensitive thermal transfer label papers ... more
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Metso's Pulp, Paper and Power business to initiate a cost reduction program to improve its competitiveness
Metso's Pulp, Paper and Power business is to initiate a global cost competitiveness program to adapt to changes in the marketplace ... more |
International Paper announced today it is in talks with Unisource regarding a proposed business combination of xpedx, International Paper's ... more
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'I'm not surprised with the employer's response. We're in a difficult time right now' more
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An industry that once formed the backbone of the Island economy is making a comeback, and Dwight Yochim, executive director of ... more
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As the pulp and paper industry shifts away from chlorine bleaching, the chlor-alkali plants that used mercury to extract the chlorine from salt are shutting ... more
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While Corner Brook city officials and former mill workers in central Newfoundland are optimistic about a multi-million dollar loan for Corner Brook .... more
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Harold Bevis, Xerium CEO and President, announced today the restructuring of our European Executive and Global Technical Leadership functions. more
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The three unions under the umbrella of Corner Brook Pulp and Paper that are still without new collective agreements continue to make progress, ... more
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The Forest Products Association of Canada has successfully used social media to recruit deserving students to work this summer at leading forest ... more.
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Catalyst Paper announced today that President and Chief Executive Officer Kevin J. Clarke will step down from his position later this spring. more.
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Restricting log exports won't help B.C.'s forestry industry, but encouraging diversification will, says Dwight Yochim, executive director of ... more.
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UPM-Kymmene Oyj (UPM1V)'s closing of two paper machines in Finland and Germany to save money may cut its annual global power use ... more
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Lighter boards and optimised shades among benefits. more
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UPM has achieved exceptional success with its workplace safety initiative which was launched at the beginning of 2012. more
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 Exportation of wood pellets from North America to Europe reached a new record of 3.2 million tons in 2012, with US exporters more than doubling their shipments from Hakan Ekstrom, Wood Resources International LLC
Demand for wood pellets in Europe has gone up dramatically the past few years as power companies on the continent have switched from using fossil fuels to renewable energy alternatives. Read more
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Benefits of higher paper volumes and pulp prices compared to fourth quarter offset by higher production costs. more
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Resolute FP today announced that it has launched a private offering for $600 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2023. more
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Resolute FP today announced that it has launched a cash tender offer for any and all of its $501 million outstanding aggregate principal amount of ... more
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 MoveRoll Innovation changes the Paper Industry MoveRoll Oy, an innovative Finnish company, has invented a unique way to convey paper rolls. This new roll handling solution has dramatically changed the level of safety and energy consumption in paper mills. Read more
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Lorentzen & Wettre announce L&W Stylus Roughness Tester Emveco - a paper laboratory instrument that measures the micro-surface roughness of paperboard and linerboard. more
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Cascades is proud to offer this innovative new product and reaffirm its position as a leader in packaging that respects the environment. more
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Catalyst Paper (TSX:CYT) has released its tenth sustainability report as an early adopter of this voluntary disclosure practice more than a decade ago. more
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AF&PA is proud to present the City of Guntersville with this year's AF&PA Community Recycling Award. more
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Upcoming Paperboard Packaging Webinar This webinar entitled ''Performance-based Design of Corrugated Box and Board'', will focus on fundamental rethinking of the "strength-based" design criteria for corrugated boxes and boards. more
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 Featured PAPTAC Mill champion PAPTAC is pleased to announce Holton Quinn as the new featured Mill Champion. Holt Quinn is a graduate from the University of Idaho, earning a B.S. degree in 1981 and an M.S. degree in 2006, both in Chemical Engineering. more
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Papercon 2013 April 27 - May 1
Atlanta, United States
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Workshop: Biomass to Biofuels and Bio-chemicals May 1, 2013
Sarnia, Ontario
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International Pulp Week May 5 - 8, 2013
Vancouver, Canada
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