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Finishing & Converting

St. Marys Stacks Up SC Quality
St. Marys Paper is the first supercalendered (SC) uncoated groundwood mill to rebuild existing supercalenders to incorporate modern load-relieving technology. The rebuild stacks have led to improved sheet gloss and smoothness, thus maintaining the mill’s competitive position in the rapidly evolving and quality-driven SC papers market.

Pulping/Recycling

Deink Plant Brings Strategic Benefits to Coosa Pines
With the startup of its new deink plant in Coosa Pines, Ala., Bowater Newsprint is achieving its goal of low-cost newsprint production at the mill, as well as reaping strategic benefits with regard to the mill’s proximity to other Bowater facilities in the Southeast. Also, Coosa Pines’ new, 100% recycle sheet is exhibiting significantly improved strength characteristics over the prior furnish, as well as better pressroom runnability, helping strengthen the mill’s competitiveness.

Papermaking/Wet End Chemicals

Better Stickies Removal
A new approach to wet end contaminant control combines three different chemical approaches not normally used together due to interference problems. Compared with conventional chemical systems, the new approach has shown, through commercial results, that it can better control contaminants, such as stickies and wood resins, that foul equipment and lower productivity.

Customers in Focus

Customers in Focus: Catalog Papers
A growing focus on the customer has become crucial to the profitability and sustainability of North American mills. In the first of a series of articles, Pulp & Paper examines the catalog papers business, including information about the amount and types of paper consumed in this market. The article also gathers comments from top catalog printers and publishers, gaining their perspective on challenges they face in their businesses.

On Demand Papermaking

Readers Respond "On Demand"
In response to March P&P column, readers weighed in on the concept of “on-demand” papermaking, including why it would and wouldn’t work.

grade profile
Recycled paperboard: Weak demand, overcapacity put pressure on sector

month in statistics
U.S. paper and paperboard production data for February

News Scan

From the Editors
Whose business is it?
By Monica Shaw

Chemical Markets
Chemical markets of the future
By William Baumgartner

Labor Management
A better epitaph
By George Gates

Comment
Price vs. quality and value
By William J. Haskins

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