Ahead of the Curve

Greener Packaging for Boston

16 Apr 2014 Demonstrating that recyclable packaging can survive one of NAFCO’s [the largest regional seafood distributor in the Mid-Atlantic] longest shipping routes, Global Green USA coordinated a pilot in which water-resistant packaging that is 100% recyclable with regular cardboard could be used to bring Chesapeake Bay seafood five hundred miles to a Boston location of a major grocery chain.

U.S. Manufacturing Growing Steadily

09 Apr 2014 U.S. manufacturing continues to step it up with another solid gain in output this year...3.5% or better. Nearly five years after the Great Recession ended, it continues to outpace the rate of overall GDP growth.

Buzz Worthy Print Beats Digital in Influence

02 Apr 2014 Is it possible that print magazines have more clout than their digital counterparts? Oh yes. A new study finds that print still ranks highest when it comes to generating word-of-mouth buzz.

Appvion marks 60 years of making carbonless paper

26 Mar 2014 What began as a search for a better receipt paper resulted in the invention of an office productivity phenomenon that continues to be an indispensable part of the business world, even in today’s digital age.

Fortum, UPM and Valmet jointly developing technology to produce advanced biomass based fuels

19 Mar 2014 Fortum, UPM and Valmet have joined forces to develop a new, winning technology to produce advanced high value lignocellulosic fuels, such as transportation fuels or higher value bio liquids.

Coming up with brilliant ideas when the pressure's on

05 Mar 2014 I define creativity as "the ability to develop great ideas while under pressure. Pressure creates diamonds, so why shouldn’t it also create great ideas?

Dynamic New Platform to Protect Forests Worldwide

26 Feb 2014 The World Resources Institute (WRI), Google, and a group of more than 40 partners have launched Global Forest Watch (GFW), a dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system that empowers people everywhere to better manage forests. For the first time, Global Forest Watch unites the latest satellite technology, open data, and crowdsourcing to guarantee access to timely and reliable information about forests.

95% of Canadians can now recycle paperboard boxes, cartons

20 Feb 2014 Canadians can no longer say they’d love to recycle their old paperboard boxes but can’t do it where they live. That’s because virtually all Canadians now have access to the convenient recycling of both corrugated boxes and paperboard or boxboard cartons. The actual access numbers, calculated by independent consulting firm CM Consulting, are 96% and 95% of Canadians, respectively. The numbers update a paper industry study conducted four years ago that placed access numbers in the 83% to 85% range.

Producing heat and electricity together is an energy winner

17 Feb 2014 Sometimes what’s old becomes new again, and cogeneration, which is more than 130 years old, is gathering momentum across the world.

USDA Publishes Final Rule, Establishing Paper Check-off Program

29 Jan 2014 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published the final rule for the Paper and Paper-based Packaging Promotion program (Paper Check-off). The rule establishes the program and states the assessment of 35 cents per short ton on printing and writing, containerboard, paperboard and Kraft paper will begin on March 1, 2014. Companies assessed are ones producing or importing 100,000 short tons or more of the four covered grades. Newsprint and carbonless papers are not included in the program.