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Veteran timberland executive will serve as COO of Rayonier Inc. until its upcoming separation into two companies

Company confirms plans for deal with TRI Pointe, says it will focus on its timber and paper products business

In my four plus decades in this business, there has been one constant amongst all the variables.  That constant is: What should be our energy source?  In virgin pulp mills, the recovery boiler has been a steady contributor.  However, for supplemental thermal energy, or for thermal energy in mills without a pulp mill, history shows the answer is the flavor of the month. Let’s step back even further for a moment...

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Readers weigh in on last week's column, "I don't think like you do."

The company announced an extended period of market-related outage on its remaining paper machine in January. The kraft pulp mill and another paper machine have been idled since November of 2012.

Workers were employees of a maintenance contractor; incident is under investigation

The reality is none of us think alike. In fact, if you are a senior manager, you’ll want people of all kinds of flavors. Just don’t make the mistake of putting them in the wrong position in your organization...

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This announcement comes just over a year after APP launched its Forest Conservation Policy

Recruitment of new directors for both companies and new Rayonier CEO nearing completion; CFO transition announced

The recent news from France is that work emails are banned after 6 p.m.  Left unspecified, apparently this does not apply to some jobs.  Let’s hope the exemptions include the pulp and paper industry, unless you are so competitive you wish to knock off your French competitors by any means possible. This situation is indicative of a problem confronting employers since the beginning of the industrial revolution.  That problem is this—how do we get workers to exhibit and perform as entrepreneurially as they did when they were peasants down on the farm?

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It's unanimous, readers agree that the ability to get things done is the most valuable attribute in business, and few listed other valuable attributes.

The extension comes as a result of continued discussions with each of the Canadian Competition Bureau and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice

Given that you lead a legal, moral, ethical life (I’ll fire you on the spot if you do not), the most valuable attribute I see in employees in any setting is the ability to get things done.  And, yes, we can add all sorts of qualifiers to this—on time, on budget and so forth.  However, stripped to its bare essentials, the most coveted quality in the workplace is the ability to get things done...

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Readers give us their thoughts on vertical paper machines...

As we all know, offices, and homes, are still far from paperless, but a “less-paper” revolution commenced about the turn of the century, at least for all kinds of printing paper, including newsprint. This seems likely to continue for the foreseeable future...