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AF&PA Honors Sustainability Winners
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) presented its 2015 Better Practices, Better Planet 2020 Sustainability Awards at AF&PA’s annual meeting on Friday, November 13 in San Antonio, Texas. Winners included:
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AF&PA Honors Sustainability Winners
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) presented its 2015 Better Practices, Better Planet 2020 Sustainability Awards at AF&PA’s annual meeting on Friday, November 13 in San Antonio, Texas. Winners included:
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Tranlin breaks ground on $2 billion project in Virginia
Tranlin Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of China-based Shandong Tranlin Paper Co., has officially broken ground on its first U.S. operation, a $2 billion advanced manufacturing facility to produce natural color, straw fiber tissue products made from agricultural field waste such as wheat straw and corn stalks.
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Agenda 2020 completes workshops to develop technology research roadmaps
The Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance has completed its series of five workshops on advanced manufacturing technologies.
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Salute to National Forest Products Week
During this year’s National Forest Products Week, we salute the thousands of hardworking Americans who keep our forests healthy and vibrant places for economic growth.
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Agenda 2020 Workshops Develop Technology Research Agenda
The Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance conducted two advanced manufacturing workshops in September at the Renewable Bioproducts Institute, Georgia Tech.
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BDC Symposium focused on Canadian/US Bio Industry
The Biorenewable Deployment Consortium (BDC) Fall Symposium was held in Ottawa, Ontario in September and was combined with a site visit to Ensyn’s production facility in Renfrew, just outside of Ottawa.
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Changing patterns in the global tissue market
A new Point of View by Pöyry Management Consulting, argues that the dominance of legacy brands in the tissue market is under threat from shifts in consumer purchasing behavior.
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Red Rock Biofuels to provide biobased jet fuel to FedEx Express
Red Rock Biofuels LLC, a Fort Collins, Colorado-based pioneer in renewable biofuels, has announced that it will produce approximately 3 million gallons of low-carbon, renewable jet fuel per year for FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp.
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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.