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The next time a rabid environmentalist gets in your face and talks about you, as a paper industry professional, destroying the earth, tell them you’ll be happy to follow their example as soon as they strip to their birthday suit, move to the Amazon, and adopt a diet of raw fish...

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Readers let us know how they'd describe the pulp and paper industry.

A look at Orora, Amcor, Pact Group ... and a bit of history.

Travis asks, "What year did this start?"

Having spent the last forty years in pulp and paper, I’ll be the first to tell you the pulp and paper industry has been a surprise a minute. The most recent surprise has been the announcement that Verso is planning to acquire NewPage and what that has done to the PM40...

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Travis asks, "Do you remember this letter?"

All the technology exists right now to make this happen. Here is a chance for a paper industry centric company to become a real high tech leader recognized by the general population. How about it?

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Readers let us know if they've ever gotten a job through a headhunter or if they use headhunters to hire employees...

Travis asks, "Can you name this collective?"

Travis asks, "What other Olympic awards have they been given?"

Great people make great companies.  And like it or not, headhunters often stand between you and great people.  Set high expectations and build a long term relationship with a headhunter that is looking out for you.

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If you are an amateur radio operator (ham radio), please let us know your name, call sign and license class.  We will publish them here.

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There is an old phrase of indeterminate origin, in which I will substitute one word for our lesson here: “The road to failure is paved with good intentions.” If you are going to do something, for goodness sake, follow through and do it.

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Travis asks, "Can you solve this mysterious math problem?"

The climate change situation is likely to be more positive than negative for the pulp and paper industry, but with lots of uncertainty.  Actions of our governments in the name of climate change, which are not likely to be rational on such a complex issue, will have the key impact on the industry...

But like leading edge technology today that is prohibitively expensive, trickle down technology will eventually reach you and me in the form of advances in what we can buy and use...

While the paperless office will probably never exist, we all know that the “less-paper”  office arrived around ten years ago, and is cutting seriously into paper sales. At the Consumer Electronics Show in January this year, I found a clever, non-traditional measure taken by International Paper to promote the use of paper that is also useful to many readers of this column for daily work...

It is so easy for us to sink into the feeling that America (The United States of America, that is) is going downhill at an increasingly rapid rate. But whenever I get into a funk about the US, I just read some history and realize how far we've come...

Nip Impressions is a teenager this Christmas. Let’s go back and look at some of the highlights, shall we?

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