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Recovered paper markets for the rest of the year: What to expect
By Hannah Zhao, RISI After falling for about half a year, the national average price of OCC in the US market finally bottomed out in April and has continued to climb since, reaching US$106/tonne (metric ton) in July, the highest level since June 2014. The price run for mixed paper and old newspaper (ONP) during this period was even faster. The recent price jump reflected the rebound in export demand and the limited supply for these grades, especially for ONP and mixed paper.
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Paper Correspondence Is Bridging the Digital Divide in Vaccine Rollout
“Unprecedented” and “an historic challenge” are some of the terms medical experts use to describe the efforts to get COVID-19 vaccines into the arms of entire populations as quickly as possible. The science was its own miracle, and the extreme temperature-controlled logistics from manufacturers to local vaccination sites is a marvel in progress that continues to be fine-tuned.
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Agenda 2020 Paper Machine Drying Project Announced as Part of DOE/National Labs Clean Energy Initiative
The forest products industry’s Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance is working with Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories as part of a new Department of Energy (DOE) initiative through which the laboratories will develop a model of how water moves through the sheet in the press section.
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3 Things about the Paper Industry I Wish I’d Learned Sooner
By Sarah Garchinsky I come from a research and development background, with no previous paper experience. Now that I’m working regularly in mills, here are a few things that I wish I learned sooner about the paper industry.
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Stop Swapping Your Pumps and Start Testing Them Instead
y Jay Shellogg This article appears in the forthcoming January/February 2016 issue of Paper360°. Does anyone out there run two pumps in parallel so that if one fails you can swap to the other pump with little or no consequence to operations?
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Paper: A sustainable Holiday Tradition
Note: The articles below were first published on the blog of Two Sides NA, an independent, non-profit organization that is part of the Two Sides global network, which includes more than 600 member companies across five continents.
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Exploring Possibilities in Packaging: Meet the Winners of the PPA Student Design Challenge
When you were a kid, did you ever build a rocket ship, adventure fort, or pirate boat?
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Find Mill Solutions—At Your Desk
Today’s mill operating teams are looking for timely, actionable information that can help them operate faster, better, and more efficiently.
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A paper bottle in every hand?
What if bottles could be made entirely from renewable materials and be fully biodegradable?
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Herty Advanced Materials Center Launches Advanced Chemical Processing Unit
The Herty Advanced Materials Development Center (Herty), an applied research center of Georgia Southern University, has launched a new Advanced Chemical Processing (ACP) pilot facility which allows it to expand its research programs and client services to those companies seeking to develop and test new advanced materials required in today’s international and increasingly competitive markets.
