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Thurso mill took 10 weeks of market downtime

In 2013, the mill produced 465,000 tons on two paper machines and two pulp dryers that made various paper grades including containerboard, specialty kraft paper and pulp

115 employees work at facility

Transaction expected to close at the end of March

Transaction expected to close in the first half of 2014

Upgrade in works at Wallula, Washington mill

Folks, the innovations are coming fast and furious this year.  I’ll predict they will keep coming fast and furious, too...

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Travis asks, "What are these seventeen groups?"

Our readers and our advertisers are too important to us to break that trust by permitting a bloated federal bureaucracy to set its news agenda. Sure wish they'd try, though...

$610 million to be invested in Sweden mill

Program will cover three main areas

Reporting on the weather, the Olympics and the Ukraine

Amazon Flow is a game changer in many ways. What does this do for all packaging? My challenge is for us as an industry to become proactive, not reactive to change.  For instance, now that the Amazon Flow technology is out of the bag, how can we help them exploit it throughout the entire product chain?  

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Travis asks, "What is this number?"

I am a safe place to try out your resume.  I have looked at and worked on enough resumes that it just might be possible that I know what works...

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Most of the responders agree with Jim...

Thoughts on Amazon Flow...

Travis asks, "Who is this MVP?"

With developments in technology, I believe that retail and office space will to start to disappear in very rapid numbers. What does this mean for the pulp and paper industry?

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Could you memorize an entire deck?

Rayonier Inc. announced this week it intends to separate its Performance Fibers business from its Forest Resources and Real Estate businesses.