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Your weekly installment of new knowledge, sponsored by Valmet. Each week’s e-newsletter brings you one featured article, selected by TAPPI’s editors, on new research, business/technology trends, industry markets, or upcoming events – a range of topics geared toward industry professionals. You’ll also get a pulp and paper industry-specific article from the tech experts at Valmet. With more than 27,000 subscribers, Ahead of the Curve delivers engaging info that readers can use today to prepare for tomorrow.

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Top 10 Packaging Trends For 2022
This article was originally published at the online blog of Industrial Packaging in September and is being excerpted here for Ahead of the Curve readers who may have missed it. Read the complete article here.)
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LIVE from TAPPICon Live!
Keynoter Elizabeth McCormick fires up attendees; extra precautions, including wristbands indicating social distancing preferences, helped attendees feel at ease; Jan Bottiglieri interviews a podcast guest live at the event.
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Creators Wanted in Modern Manufacturing
For the almost 950,000 workers in the US forest products industry, every day is “manufacturing day!” According to the American Forest and Paper Association, the forest products industry represents approximately 4 percent of US manufacturing GDP.
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Which Manufacturers Made Our Industry’s Top 20 List?
Note: The complete “Paper360° Top 75 Manufacturers” list, with expanded statistical data, will be published in the Sep/Oct 2021 issue of Paper360° magazine, available in print and online. This excerpt is shared here as an exclusive ‘sneak peek’ for Ahead of the Curve readers.
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Leadership Lessons from a Black Hawk Helicopter Pilot
At TAPPICon 2021, attendees will hear a live keynote from Elizabeth McCormick, former US Black Hawk helicopter pilot and author.
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Still working (overtime): Life-saving nonwovens and continued innovation
The division consists of hundreds of professionals who focus on the mechanical preparation of fibers prior to the paper machine, the preparation and evaluation of the effect of papermaking additives
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National Poll Shows Overwhelming Parent Preference for Physical Books Over Digital
This article excerpt is based on an exclusive interview that TAPPI conducted with Brian Dietz, Cascades Tissue Group. It originally ran in the most recent issue of Tissue360° magazine. Access the complete article here.
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Digitalization: The Key to Resource-Efficiency
The full-length version of this article originally ran in the July-August issue of Paper360°, and is excerpted here for AOTC readers who may have missed it.
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Trees Are Climate Change, Carbon Storage Heroes
J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, once wrote, “I longed to devise a setting in which the trees might really march to war.” If climate change is a battle for Earth’s survival, then trees will be a vital army holding the line. When Tolkien imagined trees marching to war, he couldn’t have foreseen how relevant those words would one day be.
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Standards development: Authors and reviewers welcome
This article originally appeared in the July, 2021 issue of TAPPI Journal, a monthly publication of peer-reviewed research for TAPPI members.

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