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PULPING

Bleach plant optimized
Gulf States Paper cuts chemical costs and prepares for Cluster Rule compliance


SPECIAL EDITORIAL REPORT


The Future of BCTMP
An update to Pulp & Paper’s 1989 special report on bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp examines the market, economic, and technological issues that BCTMP producers face as well as the benefits of the fiber in various paper and paperboard grades


PROCESS CONTROL


Process control
New continuous digester controls improve quality and production at Donohue in Saint-Felicien, Que


COATING


On-machine coating of inkjet grades
A modified kaolin, used as an alternative to silica pigments, allows on-machine coating of inkjet paper grades


MAINTENANCE


Maintenance guidelinest
New codes from the American Petroleum Institute benefit paper industry maintenance






Month in Statistics
U.S. paper and paperboard production data for January

Grade Profile
Coated groundwood: acquisitions, rising prices, little in new capacity drive sector

News Scan
IP, G-P, & Weyerhaeuser form Internet exchange
Price-fixing lawsuit names 7 producers13
Madison Paper plans SC machine upgrade 15
Great Northern to convert newsprint PM 15
Explosion at Bowater mill kills two 17
U.S. paper recovery rate hits 45% 17
Paperloop.com launches new website 19
Japan’s Nippon to merge with Daishowa 19



From the Editors
Battles at the fiber front

Project management
Preventive maintenance II: Program content

Information Technology
Building a solid IT foundation

Comment
Thriving in the new millennium


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