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Maintenance
The ABCs of maintenance audits
For business managers, maintenance audits provide a framework and benchmarks for continuous improvement for three key areas–management, systems and procedures, and personnel and resources

North American Top 50
The big get bigger
In North America, the desire for better financial performance and issues of globalization are driving big producers to get even bigger, sometimes leading to rapid turnover in the rankings of the Top 50 companies.

Pulping & Bleaching
Bowater furnishes better pulp
With its two new TMP lines providing high-quality, cost-efficient furnish, Bowater Newsprint in Calhoun, Tenn., becomes the first mill to use retention-temperature-speed (RTS) technology on southern fiber.

Paper Machine Clothing
Q&A on paper machine clothing
What are the answers to some top clothing issues at mills? In this Q&A, suppliers answer questions submitted anonymously to Pulp & Paper by papermakers on topics ranging from the shoe press and transfer belts to pricing and consolidation.

SPECIAL PAPER CHEMICAL REPORT
Good Chemistry Between Suppliers, Internet
E-commerce has invaded the chemicals business, with numerous exchange and information sites offering to be the mediators of chemical suppliers and chemical customers. And chem-ical suppliers are wondering exactly how these e-business sites fit with their strategies.

SPECIAL PAPER CHEMICAL REPORT
Pigment, Filler Markets Heat Up
The global fine paper sector’s drive to differentiate their products has caused numerous shakeups among pigment and filler suppliers, including consolidations, restructurings, and efforts at penetrating new markets.

SPECIAL PAPER CHEMICAL REPORT
Suppliers Focus on Papermaking Needs
Paper chemical suppliers discuss their own efforts at technological differentiation, new product development, and market strategies in their efforts to meet paper company demands for quality and productivity improvements.
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Month in Statistics
U.S. paper and paperboard production data for July.
Grade Profile
Kraft paper: Market contraction expected to continue in U.S. but exports rising
| News Scan |
| Tissue growth stays strong through 2002 |
| Stora completes Consolidated buy
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| Weyerhaeuser to invest C$167 million |
| G-P confirms sale of market pulp assets |
| Solvay plans $125 million paper machine |
| FiberMark to sell business to Ahlstrom |
| Westvaco mill cited in EPA crackdown |
| New kraft pulp line for Bowater Catawba |


From the Editors
Et tu, K-C?
Career Development
Why good people leave
Information Technology
An introduction to e-business strategies
Comment
Impacts from new Chinese containerboard capacity


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