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Coatings/Fillers & Additives
Challenges Face Global Coated Paper Market
World coated paper output reached record levels in 1999, exceeding 37 million mtons. However, in the next few years challenges such as over capacity, competitive products, and slowing domestic U.S. demand pose challenges.
Maintenance Management
Preventive Maintenance
Smurfit-Stone overhauls the preventive maintenance program at its Fernandina Beach, Fla., mill to improve overall performance by addressing maintenance operations, maintenance cost, and equipment reliability.
Information Technology
Building Business Benefits with IT
For Riverwood International, information technology (IT) strategy is not a matter of technology for technology’s sake. Instead, the new IT architecture, including ERP and roll handling systems, was designed to offer the flexibility for achieving business goals, such as collaborative e-commerce projects with key customers.
Coating Pigments
Coating Pigment Use Evolving
Mills using more ground calcium carbonate and engineered kaolin, but a real move to “global sheet” slow. Energy cost surge may bring more radical change in sources of supply.
Warehousing/Material Handling
Automated Material Handling
At Rolland Inc.’s St. Jérôme, Québec, mill, a more efficient mill layout and an automated system’s approach to handling and wrapping rolls, including an automatic guided vehicle system, has reduced product damage, storage requirements, and labor and maintenance costs.
Strategic Forestry Management
SFI Spells Paradox
The much-debated Strategic Forestry Initiative—supported by most of the U.S. forest products industry and maligned by most environ- mental groups—continues to gain momentum and acceptance.
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month in statistics
U.S. paper and paperboard production data for January
grade profile
U.S. coated groundwood market readies for capacity increase of almost 400,000 tons
| Bowater to acquire Alliance |
| Weyco to fight for Willamette seats |
| Abitibi to build deinking plant |
| G-P mothballs Bellingham pulp mill |
| Study on carbonless paper ‘uncertain’ |
| Canada, U.S. far from lumber deal |
From the Editors
Single source or no source
Information Technology
E-Commerce: Taking the first steps
Safety Management
Safety performance metrics: Part III of III
Comment
Challenges and changes for kraft papers
News of People
Supplier News
Product Showcase
Conference Calendar
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