Thursday, February 13, 2014 - members edition
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Weekly Spotlight
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Market Roundup
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Pulp & Paper
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Containerboard/Packaging
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New Products
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Published Pricing
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People
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TAPPI News
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Weekly Spotlight
Bill, which passed in the U.S. Senate 68 to 32, provides nearly $900 million in dedicated funding for some of the nation's most critical energy and job-creation programs.
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Funding will support mill in northern India, but group is considering also building North America’s first commercial scale straw-based paper mill, possibly in Manitoba, Canada.
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Steve Binnie, currently CFO of the company, will succeed Ralph Boëttger as CEO, effective July 1.
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Sally Barkow, former Olympic sailor and Wisconsin native, joins an international crew of 11 women who will compete in a nine-leg race around the world, covering more than 39,000 miles.
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Company was awarded "Environmental Strategy of the Year" and "Innovative Product of the Year." at the 2013 PPI Awards in Dubai.
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One session includes technical presentations and second session has a special panel session of experts.
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Market Roundup
Southeastern and southwestern sections of the U.S. are continuing to dominate Boiler MACT projects.
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Preliminary figures show that paper and board production by member countries declined some 1.3% in 2013, with production totaling about 91 million metric tons.
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Pulp & Paper
Sale of the shares of Ahlstrom Fabricação de Não-Tecidos Ltda in Brazil to Suominen Corp. has now been completed.
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Expansion project at mill in southern Chile will expand mill’s production to 2.1 million metric tpy.
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Authorization follows successful completion of company's previous $100 million stock repurchase authorization that was implemented in January 2013.
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Change of name illustrates and underlines affiliation of the joint regional sales office of Papersystems Asia to the companies in the Papersystems Group.
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Investment would include a new 70,000 metric tpy tissue machine, additional converting equipment, and related logistic and civil infrastructure.
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Project will include modernization of all of the paper machine main sections, with the goal of improving end product quality.
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As of January 31, both the closing share price of Verso's common stock and its average closing share price over the preceding 30 consecutive trading days were in excess of the $1.00 minimum threshold.
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Containerboard/Packaging
Elliott Baxter and Co. Ltd (EBB), U.K., this week announced the acquisition of Cell Ltd., a U.K.-based carton board and packaging supplier.
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American River Packaging and All West Container of San Francisco are changing their names to PackageOne to align the company under a single identity.
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New Products
In addition to the usual seals, eight supplementary radial seals (two in each of the four corners) help to protect the wine inside.
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Mechanical auto-cut paper towel dispenser, known as Paper POD, provides single use paper portions for hygienic hand drying.
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Published Pricing
Price surcharges of 5% for all of company's beverage filtration papers are effective immediately.
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People
Aki Saarinen, EVP, Strategic Business Development, has decided to resign from Ahlstrom to pursue other career opportunities.
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Business executive, author, and community leader Anne Giardini has been elected to the independent Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc. (SFI) Board of Directors.
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In his new role, Robert van de Kerkhof will have management responsibility for marketing and sales.
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TAPPI News
Learn how to translate traditional operational metrics into real dollar savings.
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Pacific TAPPI and University of Washington Pulp and Paper Foundation will have a joint meeting at the university campus on March 13.
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Check your calendar for dates in February and March for courses designed expressly for reliability and maintenance professionals.
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Don't miss your chance to attend the first of three introductory courses, March 10-14, being offered in partnership between TAPPI and NCSU.
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No other event offers more learning, more networking and more technical programming than PaperCon, April 27-30, in Nashville, Tenn., USA.
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This updated and expanded electronic version of The Roll and Web Defect Terminology – 2nd Edition is now available to members for a discount.
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Member Paul Krochak Sets Personal, Professional Goals High.
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To be held in New Orleans, La., USA, on April 8-9, featuring keynote speaker from Time Inc.
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Candidates should have made an outstanding contribution to the research into and/or the industrial development of high yield pulping, i.e. mechanical or chemi-mechanical pulping, utilizing mechanical defibration techniques and/or new applications using high yield pulps.
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Be a part of the future as IBBC explores the technology and economics of commercializing biorefineries.
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Advance your career by presenting at the 2014 TAPPI PEERS Conference in Tacoma, Wash., USA. Deadline for abstracts is March 3, 2014.
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This March 10-12 course is designed for operators, engineers, supervisors, and pulp mill managers engaged in pulp mill recovery operations.
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A call for papers has been issued for IPBC, with a deadline of March 31.
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