Over the Wire

The TAPPI Community social networking site contains a blog this week titled New Products and New Markets: A Process for Successful Innovation.

 

Producer attempts to raise recycled containerboard prices in August were partly successful in Germany. Most prices were up, although not by the desired amount, reports EUWID Pulp and Paper, Germany.

 

French recycled containerboard prices showed some signs of improvement in August, according to latest data from RISI, Brussels, Belgium.

 

Pulp and bank note producer Fortress Paper Ltd. is selling its operations that make security film used in bank notes to Nanotech Security Corp. for up to $17.5 million in cash and shares.

 

FutureMark’s Alsip, Ill., USA, mill reportedly has now closed down indefinitely.

 

The recovered paper warehouse of International Paper's Kwidzyn mill in Poland was partly destroyed by a fire in late August. Newsprint production at the mill was not affected.

 

Resolute Forest Products Inc. this week announced the permanent closure of its Laurentide paper mill in Shawinigan, Que., Canada.

 

Evergreen Packaging this week announced the launch of the Fall 2014 Made by Milk Carton Construction Contest, themed "Sculptures.

 

Huhtamaki Oyj, Finland, has acquired Interpac Packaging Ltd. based in Auckland, New Zealand.

 

ITC Ltd. has developed a shelf-ready packaging solution for consumer goods where the pack itself turns into a retail shelf, reducing the retailer's investment on shelves, optimizing space, and attracting consumer's attention faster, but possibly increasing costs for marketers.

 

Menasha Packaging reports that construction is underway on a 126,000-sq. ft.-plus manufacturing and office space expansion at its Lakeville, Minn., facility.

 

Mondi reports that it will shut down PM 1 at its Lohja mill in Finland, effective approximately June 30, 2015.

 

ABB has launched a new web imaging system for paper industry web inspection and quality control—the HDI 9 Web Imaging System.

 

To help consumers take small steps to make a big impact on the environment, Kimberly-Clark reports that its SCOTT Brand recently unveiled a replica of the Empire State Building in New York City's Flatiron Plaza.

 

Voith has introduced a new InForce polyurethane roll cover that features high stability, providing additional void volume with particularly deep and wide grooves for highly loaded positions.

 

ADI Systems Inc. is working with Millar Western Forest Products Ltd., Edmonton, Alb., on a Bioenergy Effluent Project (BEP) aimed at generating clean energy from waste.

 

An article in an upcoming issue of Applied Energy looks at torrefaction treatment of biomass in terms of its effectiveness before and after densification.

 

Two Virginia Tech researchers have received a $1.4 million grant to investigate the genetic regulatory networks that will allow an important bioenergy crop to be bred so it will grow in less than ideal soils and climate.

 

Andritz reports that two mandates to its Executive Board will expire at the end of 2014 and one at the end of the first quarter of 2015.

 

Stora Enso has added four new members to its Group Leadership Team (GLT), effective the first of this month.

 

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This comprehensive textbook covers recovery boilers in great depth with information on combustion, safety, emissions, plugging, and corrosion. Available to TAPPI members for $47 off list price.

 

For a limited time, a sample of the high caliper content published in TAPPI Journal is being made available free to download for members.

 

Tutorial sessions free with registration. Make the most of your time out of the office.

 

The 2014 seminar program is designed to attract a broad group of researchers and industrialists to connect fundamental science with real world applications. This four-day seminar will run from September 8-11, in Raleigh, N.C., USA.

 

Members now save $77 off list price on the latest edition of this text.

 

Product developers, researchers, and academics who have a scientific interest in the field of coating paper and paperboard substrates should attend this October 7-9 event in Minneapolis, Minn., USA.

 

Present at the largest program for the pulp and paper industry.