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Comprehensive weekly news briefings of the week’s top stories.
FlexPack Weekly Wrap-Up
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- Creators Wanted in Modern Manufacturing
- Which Manufacturers Made Our Industry’s Top 20 List?
- Leadership Lessons from a Black Hawk Helicopter Pilot
- Still working (overtime): Life-saving nonwovens and continued innovation
- National Poll Shows Overwhelming Parent Preference for Physical Books Over Digital
- Digitalization: The Key to Resource-Efficiency
- Trees Are Climate Change, Carbon Storage Heroes
- Standards development: Authors and reviewers welcome
- Changing Times in Tissue
- Partnership to Advance Cellulosic Nanomaterial from Wood
- Oji further restructures its Japanese packaging business
- Nanotechnology + Renewable Materials = Opportunity
- The New Strategic Role of Human Resources
- USDA Publishes Final Rule, Establishing Paper Check-off Program
- Producing heat and electricity together is an energy winner
- 95% of Canadians can now recycle paperboard boxes, cartons
- Dynamic New Platform to Protect Forests Worldwide
- Coming up with brilliant ideas when the pressure's on
- Fortum, UPM and Valmet jointly developing technology to produce advanced biomass based fuels
- Appvion marks 60 years of making carbonless paper
- Buzz Worthy Print Beats Digital in Influence
- U.S. Manufacturing Growing Steadily
- Greener Packaging for Boston
- Industry 4.0: New Lexicon, No Limits
- Top 10 Packaging Trends For 2022
- LIVE from TAPPICon Live!
- Canadian dollar depreciation is credit positive for most Canadian industries
- Ronald McDonald wears a new-and-improved sustainability hat
- A Graduate’s Guide to getting Hired
- Papermaking Towards the Future
- Record attendance at BDC Spring Symposium in Maine
- Skills shortage threatens future earnings and growth prospects of U.S. manufacturers
- Holiday Gift Book Guide for Papermakers
- Need Change Management Help – Who Do You Call?
- Fish, Wildlife, and Bioenergy: The Opportunities
- Market and technology developments for paper and board coatings
- What Papermakers Are Thankful For
- Web tool helps mills plan outages
- Putting the ‘Pro’ in ‘Protege’
- Nonwoven’s next act
- Museum Restoring Rare Model Fourdrinier
- A Week to Celebrate Forests and Print
- Award Spotlights Innovations in Cellulosic Applications
- Print and Paper Packs a Punch in a Digital World
- Four technologies poised to disrupt the specialty paper market
- ‘Make in India’ vs. Making Paper in India: A Balancing Act?
- Survey Will Spark New Standards For Tissue and Towel
- Ready to Compete for Another Century
- Scientists Share Genetic Data of Poplar Trees
- Don’t overlook tissue converting
- Silver Fir Has Edge Under Changing Climate Conditions
- PaperChase is More Than Fun
- The Three-Leader Litmus Test
- Ensuring a Tight Load
- DoE Funds Biofuels Research
- Best Papers highlight new research in Coating & Graphic Arts, Process Control
- US Manufacturing Sees Growth in Production
- CEPI’s New Director General: ‘A Remarkable Industry’
- Mountains of waste could lead to new U.S. manufacturing, jobs
- National Labs explore energy-efficient solutions for paper industry
- The Graying of the Paper Industry
- TJ 2016 Best Research Paper: Mining Big Data to improve pulping and papermaking operations
- Paper Airplane Day is a thing, and it’s terrific
- Women in Manufacturing: Making an Impact
- FPInnovation’s Trevor Stuthridge on bringing nanotech to market
- The Knowledge Trail
- Redefining the Future: News from PaperCon 2017
- Mentors Can Make A Difference
- Top Young Professionals are Ready to Make Their Mark
- Nanotech and the Forest-Based Bioeconomy
- How to Prepare for OSHA
- Well-managed forests are key to a low carbon future
- Side-stream, byproduct – or revenue source?
- Mill Management and Teamwork
- Sack and kraft packaging demand is shifting to consumer application
- Celluforce’s Sebastien Corbeil on commercializing nanotech
- Prisma finds application for biomass waste lignin
- China’s paper industry: Adjusting to change
- Getting the most from safety inspections
- Is Employee Cynicism Killing Your Culture?
- UPM prepares its own PEFC certification group
- Georgia Tech's Renewable Bioproducts Institute Receives $43.6 Million in Legacy Funding
- Shandong Tranlin Paper will invest $2 billion in first U.S. advanced manufacturing operation
- FPInnovations and Kruger dedicate cellulose filament demonstration plant
- Finland to lead the way in developing storage of solar and wind energy
- Young Professionals get their own TAPPI division
- Young Professionals get their own TAPPI division
- Greg King wins PPSA's Executive Eagle Award
- National Geographic adds recycled fiber to magazines
- Nanocellulose moves from lab to market
- Province offers pulp mills $100 million for energy conservation
- RBI Merges imagination with ingenuity in lignocellulosics development
- China’s Rush to Flush: The Rise of Toilet Paper
- FSC celebrates 20th Anniversary
- Bio-products are hatching, (although tentatively)
- Why Maine’s Paper Mills are Closing
- Consortium to Seek Advanced Wood-to-Energy Solutions
- Paper Recycling in Europe reaches 71.7%
- Cracking the Code to Innovation
- DEFORESTATION IN SUPPLY CHAINS LEAVES BUSINESS EXPOSED
- Tralin unveils world's first fully automated continuous digester for non-wood pulp production
- American Process Inc. announces partnership to develop ultra-strong, lightweight automotive components using nanocellulose
- UPM Demonstrates Leadership in the European Publication Market
- Research & Development in the Pulp and Paper Industry
- Agenda 2020 conducts second open forum to develop breakthrough technology opportunities
- In 2015, Rewire Your Culture Around Service
- Survey gauges mill use of proactive safety recognition/incentive programs
- A pulp and paper rebirth
- Report says print buyers want more attention from the paper industry
- Millicent mill sets best practice for global company
- Domtar helps customers trace the impact of paper purchases
- North American advanced biofuel industry produced 800+ million gallons in 2014
- 2015 Begins with a Rollercoaster Ride
- Sappi and Edinburgh Napier University discover new process to make nanocellulose
- Corrugated Industry Stands Solid on New Package Cleanliness Research and Sustainability Facts
- APPI plants trees to commemorate its 100th anniversary
- Paper and paperboard demand forecast to grow by nearly a fifth by 2030
- TAPPI's southeast Ambassador's program identifies knowledge that pulp mills need
- Agenda 2020 announces research areas for AMTech roadmap grant work
- New report assesses paper industry progress towards improving forest stewardship in southern U.S.
- Emissions drop at UK Paper Mills in 2014
- BioSight up to 2025: Changes in supply and demand affecting the global bio-based chemical industry
- Latest NPTA Quarterly Paper Industry Economic Outlook Report Provides Insights on 2015 and Beyond
- Engineered Softwood Could Transform Pulp, Paper, Biofuel Industries
- Global forest and paper industry makes progress on sustainability commitments
- Stora Enso and Kemira initiate construction phase of water management pilot projects in Guangxi, China
- Rainforest Alliance announces new sustainable forestry project in SE U.S.
- Interview with Theodora Retsina, CEO of American Process Inc.
- APRIL pledges zero deforestation, transforms sector
- A Highly Promising Franco-Canadian, Innovation Partnership
- Biodegradable computer chips made from wood
- Beetle Plague Pushes Canadians to Stock-up on U.S. Lumber Mills
- Mohawk CEO Presents Story of Ingenuity and Growth at Paper Cluster Meeting
- Paper and Packaging Industry Launches "How Life Unfolds"™ Campaign
- Study identifies ways to improve efficiencies in recycling facilities
- Moving maintenance from reactive to proactive
- CEPI Releases Key Statistics Report for European P&P Industry
- New report looks at Second-Generation Biofuels
- Knowledge and involvement: One young professional’s story
- Transparent CNF has wide range of applications
- Uncertainty Clouds the Market in a Volatile World
- 5 ways to support the pulp, paper, and packaging industries in the New Year
- Could plastic bag bans hurt paper?
- Sustainable fuel takes flight
- The Perfect Storm: Foreign Exchange, Shipping Rates, Oil Prices, and the Pulp and Paper Industry
- Proud to be a Papermaker
- 2016 AF&PA Sustainability Award Winner
- Invention, innovation and US jobs
- Has monetary policy reached its limit?
- Publishers walking back on commitment to digital
- Celebrating National Forest Products Week
- Classroom Paper Use Increasing, Survey Shows
- Event Report: Specialty Papers US
- Innovation: The Long View
- Scientific Work Shows How Corrugated Stops Bacteria
- SCA will Split into Two Listed Companies in 2017
- ‘We believe in potential and performance’
- Bioenergy Technologies Office Allocates US$1 Million for Round 2 of the DOE’s Small Business Vouchers Pilot
- Recovered paper markets for the rest of the year: What to expect
- Notes from Rio
- DoE grants $2.5M to study biorefinery waste use, renewable bioproducts
- Report on the business ecosystem for cellulosic nanomaterials
- Creating 3D-printed prostheses from forest raw materials
- TAPPI Committee Develops ‘Power’ Tools for Mills
- An early glimpse at APP’s OKI Mill, Sumatra
- UK exit likely to have very limited near-term effects on the pulp market
- Top 6 Coolest Things About the Paper Industry
- Rick's Tips - Calender safety
- Bringing the safety message home: PPSA annual meeting meets the challenge of change
- Paper Industry Hall of Fame Honors Six
- Is more foreign boxboard finding its way into the US market?
- Ikea, Apple Buying up Large Forest Tracts
- AF&PA Honors Sustainability Winners
- Frequency re: reliability
- Denmark Announces Advisory Ban on PFCs in Paper Food Packaging
- Wood you believe it? Earth has 3 trillion trees!
- Growing Markets
- Agenda 2020 Paper Machine Drying Project Announced as Part of DOE/National Labs Clean Energy Initiative
- Red Rock Biofuels to provide biobased jet fuel to FedEx Express
- Changing patterns in the global tissue market
- BDC Symposium focused on Canadian/US Bio Industry
- Agenda 2020 Workshops Develop Technology Research Agenda
- Salute to National Forest Products Week
- Agenda 2020 completes workshops to develop technology research roadmaps
- Tranlin breaks ground on $2 billion project in Virginia
- AF&PA Honors Sustainability Winners
- India’s paper industry braces for consolidation
- Folding Carton Market in North America 2015-2019
- Herty Advanced Materials Center Launches Advanced Chemical Processing Unit
- Seven Myths of Maintenance Management
- Top 50 Power List Sneak Peek: The Top 10 Countdown
- US Consumers Underestimate Print and Papers’ Unique Contributions to Circular Economy
- Climate change a bigger threat to landscape biodiversity than emerald ash borer
- New Podcast Brings Innovation to Your Ears
- Packaging Manufacturers Step Up for a Sustainable Summer
- Canadian Paper and Paper-based Packaging Industry Sustainability
- Li Hongxin of Shandong Sun Paper named Asian CEO of the Year
- 2021 TAPPI/PIMA Awards: Rising to the Challenge
- Global Trade after COVID: Out of the frying pan ... Into the fire?
- Georgia Tech Student Recognized for Forest-based Industry Research
- Being a Maintenance Leader
- Build from Strength
- Best Ideas for an Earth Day ‘Pledge’
- New process turns paper manufacturing waste into valuable chemicals
- 3D printing cellulose materials for cars, cruise ships, and more
- World's first sculptural paper art museum opens in Berlin
- What is Our Industry’s Most Critical Workforce Need?
- Graphene Oxide Membranes Could Reduce Paper Industry Energy Costs
- Paper Correspondence Is Bridging the Digital Divide in Vaccine Rollout
- The Secret to M&R All Great Organizations Know
- Safety, Sustainability, Recycling are Top Advocacy Priorities
- At WestRock, Safety is Universal
- Properties, not chemistry, form roadmap for biofuels design
- Cellulose-based food packaging moves to testing phase
- Single-use plastic post-COVID, and the impact on paper formats
- DoD Invests US$87.5 Million in Bioindustrial Manufacturing
- North American Outlook: Coming out of COVID
- COVID Didn’t Slow P+PB’s Paper Checkoff Campaign
- Paper: A sustainable Holiday Tradition
- Motivating People Toward Safety
- Why are Standards Important?
- A paper bottle in every hand?
- Meet Fastmarkets RISI’s Asian CEO of the Year: Li Chaowang, Vinda International Holdings
- Reliability and Maintenance Management Beliefs
- Four Technology Megatrends to Transform the Paper and Board Industries in the 2020s
- Exploring Possibilities in Packaging: Meet the Winners of the PPA Student Design Challenge
- Find Mill Solutions—At Your Desk
- Scaling up a new way to produce biomass
- Which Companies Made Our Industry’s Top 20 List?
- It is Not Just the Dust
- Press Authors Share Critical Knowledge
- At ORNL, Biosciences Research Fuels the Future
- Perspectives on Change: Celebrating 100 Issues of Paper360°
- The Future of Active and Intelligent Packaging to 2025
- Leading Mills Successfully into the Future
- WebAcademy - reduce the knowledge gap at your mill
- Brighter days forecast for CelluForce
- Coffee, tea, or… innovation
- 3 Things about the Paper Industry I Wish I’d Learned Sooner
- We need a common language to describe lignin
- ORNL uses lignin to improve thermoplastic
- ISRI Survey: Paper Mills Weigh In on Mixed-Waste Recycling
- China’s Recovered Paper Import Demand Over the Next Five Years: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
- Attracting Engineering Grads
- U.S. Senate Recognizes Biomass Energy Carbon Benefits
- The Evolving Role of the Mill Engineer
- Researchers Turn Paper Waste into Multi-Use Aerogels
- Study Underscores Forest Products’ Role in Climate Change
- Is Your Pizza Box Trying to Kill You?
- Kari Jordan on: Successful Transformation
- China’s boxboard exports skyrocket and tap into critical demand growth markets
- New Study Shows How Consumers Drive Sustainability, Packaging Trends
- Prospect of New Caribou Plan a Major Concern in Rural Quebec
- Stop Swapping Your Pumps and Start Testing Them Instead
- What is the future of BHK production in China?
- Hottest Trend in Publishing is Adult Coloring Books
- Pulp in a Frenzy
- What are the benefits of a forest-based bioeconomy?
- The Chinese ban on recovered paper imports: An international disruption
- The Credibility of Print: An interview with Phil Riebel
- PPC Announces Paperboard Packaging Competition Winners
- Brazil’s Pulp, Paper and Forest Sector Investing R$35.5 Billion through 2023
- Checking in on the Paper Check-Off
- During COVID-19, Hand DRYING Important, Too
- 50 Forest Innovations to Accelerate the “Green Recovery”
- Sustainability: New Goals to Meet New Challenges
- 2020 Power List Sneak Peek
- ‘Reopening Playbook’ Offers Advice for Businesses, Retail
- Two Sides NA Launches “Love Paper” Campaign
- COVID-19 Guidance for Manufacturers
- Will the pandemic affect fluff pulp?
- Bio-economy research includes manure and more
- Human Capital: The New Metric to Measure
- New research reveals Conscious Consumerism will keep sustainability a top priority for businesses
- COVID-19 transmission through paper/cardboard surfaces
- Innovation Breeds Disruption
- Newest Directors on Addressing TAPPI’s Critical Needs
- Leadership in Reliability & Maintenance: The Operations and Maintenance Partnership
- Tissue paper sensors show promise for health care, entertainment, robotics
- Vision Quest: What You Get is Rarely What You Need
- TAPPI Reaccredited as ANSI Standards Developer
- Euro CEO of the Year Miles Roberts: ‘Packaging has Never Been More Relevant’
- Lignin Research Yields Additional Answers into Bacteria’s Role
- Our Carbon Footprint: How do paper products fit in?
- Excellence in Action: 2020 TAPPI/PIMA National Awards
- Cascades helps drivers ‘keep on trucking’
- What Does A Woman’s Perspective Bring to the Industry?
- CH-Bioforce helps turn brewing waste into textiles
- Why Sustainability Professionals Should Drive Green Consumerism
- RISI’s European CEO of the Year: Ksenia Sosnina, Ilim Group
- Global Print Market: Value Up While Volume Falls
- Open Access Brings Industry Research to All
- Paper Studs for Climate-Smart Construction
- Three Reasons Why India’s Paper Industry Hasn’t Boomed
- Can We Capture and Use the CO2 From Bioenergy?
- Critical Issues, Part 2: Data and Technology
- ‘Connect’ Q&A: Why Did You Join the P&P Industry?
- Emerging Asia-Pacific Region Drives Cartonboard Growth
- Your Dangerous, Wandering, and Distracted Mind
- Critical Issues, Part 1: Water Scarcity
- Can we Make Greener Electronics from Pine Bark?
- Outlook 2020
- Five Major Trends in Biobased Renewables
- Great Packaging Design Tells a Story
- Women in Industry Division Focuses on Leadership
- Prize funds research into cellulose-based aerogels
- Vision Quest, Pt.2: How to Get What You Really Need
- Meet Some of Our Industry's Best
- In Defense of Flushable Wipes
- Ford goes further with renewable nanomaterials
- Paper and Packaging: A Mothers' Day Essential
- Spotlight on Young Professionals
- Canadian Newsprint Tariffs Taking a Toll
- Vision Quest, Part 3: Serial Vision
- NCASI: The Past, Present, and Future of Clean Air and Water
- How Rolland Uses Sustainability to Spread the Word About Paper
- Exhibit Spotlights Printing and Papermaking
- A Perennial Problem Solved
- Recognizing Emerging Industry Leaders
- RISI's 2018 Power List: Sneak Peek
- US Paper and Wood Products Manufacturers Report Sustainability Progress
- Driving' Innovation in Biomaterials: The Biofore Concept Car
- The European Containerboard Market
- Congratulations, You're a Reliability Engineer: Now What? Part 2: Maintenance Management Concept
- Environmental Affairs: Everyone Has a Part to Play
- Manufacturing Day Can Help Tell Our Industry Story
- And the survey says…
- Will China's Recovered Paper Problem Become Your Problem?
- Neenah Inc.'s Whiting Mill Gets 50001 Ready
- Student Packaging Designers Shine
- Inside Metsä Group's Äänekoski Bioproduct Mill
- Threads of Nanocellulose Stronger Than Spider Silk
- Looking back and looking forward: Paper physics and the paper industry
- Will Sustainability Disrupt Barrier Coating Manufacturing?
- Make PAPER Part of the Celebration
- 5 Trends Changing the Future of Corrugated Packaging
- Meet the Program Leaders: Todd Varner on Staying Competitive
- North America's First Tree-Free Pulp Mill
- Not Just Paper… A Look at Alternative Uses for Wood Fiber
- Will Paper Come Back to the Future?
- Europe Aims for 74 Percent Paper Recycling
- Unlocking Product Potential with Renewable Nanomaterials
- Paper Archives Bring Distillery Back to Life
- When Planning & Scheduling May Not Be the Problem
- A Strong Family Business Perseveres
- A Strong Family Business Perseveres
- Reinvention brings rewards for Cascades Sonoco
- Modern Communication Technologies Driving Changes in Analog and Digital Printing
- What is the Most Valuable Piece of Paper?
- World Bioeconomy Forum Declaration 2021
- Europe Invests Billions in Bioeconomy
- Facing the Market
- Manufacturing 4.0: Is US Industry Lagging Behind?
- Is Bath Tissue Really Wiping Out North American Forests?
- Paper Cups: A Responsible Consumer Choice
- RCM and the Myths of Human Error
- E-commerce to shape the future world for packaging
- Anheuser-Busch and Sustainability
- The Circular Economy: A Mindset Companies Need As Well
- Let’s Talk Tissue!
- Enlist Opinion Leaders to make change happpen
- To Canfor, Pulp Is Much More than a Commodity
- Can Plastic Go Green?
- Safety: A Call to Action
- Mentoring Millennials: Do You Have What it Takes?
- Sustainability Push Is Leading To Packaging Materials Transition
- Everyone’s Talking About #ForestProductsWeek!
- TAPPI Nano 2019: Focus on New Markets
- UMaine Earns Three Guinness World Records With 3-D Printer
- Finnish Forest Companies and IT Leaders Plant a SEED
- What is E-Media Doing to our Health?
- Emerging Asia-Pacific Region Drives Cartonboard Growth
- World Bioeconomy Forum Declaration 2021
- Outlook 2019: The Trade War Threat Looms
- Europe Aims for 74 Percent Paper Recycling
- OSHA, EPA, USDA: How Are They Affected By The Government Shutdown?
- Digital or Paper? Campaign Fights for Right to Choose
- Domtar's Safety Journey
- Can gribble nibble waste into biofuel?
- Paper shortage hits American retailers when they need it most
- 5 Steps: A Clear Path Toward Reliability Improvement
- Check Out 2021’s Top 5 Episodes of ‘Better Together’
- A Papermakers’ Last-Minute Gift Guide
- The Future of Sustainability at Pulp and Paper Mills