The PAPTAC meeting in Montreal in February demonstrated an encouraging upturn in attendance, innovation and optimism about the forest products industry relative to the past several years or so.
As I think back over the past three decades, there are certain unchanging facts that have become quite evident in the whole business of siting and running successful pulp and paper facilities.
Last week, I was flying over an obviously closed large shopping mall in suburban Atlanta. Then coincidently, I read this week, that due to a combination of the Internet and the poor economy, it is expected that 15% of the 2,000 large malls in the United States will close in the next few years. This is a lot of cheap space, just waiting to be repurposed...
There is a coming revolution in maintenance, and it is coming on many fronts. We will only talk about one of these this week. It is called additive manufacturing.
My friend Jim Thompson wrote recently about the horror of the school shootings and the equally bad horror of abortions. I'm going to take this into a different realm and write about animals, specifically cats.
![[Adv.] Edge: Pulpers, too!](https://nipimpressions.org/files/image/article/thumb_2278.gif)
