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Thursday, January 24, 2019 - Member In This Issue
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"The change to Fastmarkets is not just a new name and look," said Dan Klein, CEO of Fastmarkets RISI and Fastmarkets FOEX. "It highlights our commitment to expanding and strengthening our presence in the global forest products market. This is reflected by our 2018 acquisition of Random Lengths, an important price reporting agency for the North American lumber industry, as well as our expanded investment in technology and process improvements worldwide," Klein said.
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"Helping the industry in both its image of reliability, sustainability, as well as in protecting customers and suppliers in equal effort as well as for strong profits in the industry in general against difficult circumstances will be what many of us will remember her tenure for during the recent era we've lived and grown in the industry "- OTW Editorial Team.
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For at least more than one year of monitoring from mid-2017 to very late this past year the Wikipedia page on industrial calendering was not only frighteningly small considering its importance in raw material resource engineering of many types, but its brief nature also did not mention its special relationship to paper and the Supercalendering process. A contributor seemingly more informed about the paper industry provided some recent updates that were recently detected "over-the-wire" for our industry.
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It's human nature to be fascinated by the bright and shiny, but it historically doesn't last - hardly anything lasts like the history of paper. And the most important figures from Two Sides that started in mid 2017 and was first published this past January to the day (2018) will now possibly start creating some significant changes in consumer culture that will favor paper more in 2019 while the glow of digital gizmos may be fading.
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With Brand Repositioning, GL&V Becomes GLV
GL&V USA Inc.
Global solutions provider for the pulp and paper industry, GLV, has announced the rebranding of its formal company name and logo. Formerly known as GL&V, the new brand reflects GLV’s venerable history while aligning the company for long-term success in pulp and paper production. GLV’s new look represents a renewed, unified and global approach to delivering a top-of-the-line experience for the current and future generations of pulp and paper customers.
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From The Experts
In search of a replacement for petroleum-based products and materials, the world is turning its attention to biomaterials. the company spoke specifically with Mark DeAndrea, vice president and business unit leader for Domtar’s BioMaterials Innovation team, about what the future holds for biomaterials.
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For environmentalists who do the disservice to themselves and science by turning their cause into a crusade unable to admit the need to evolve, adapt, or admit wrong or more so in the paper industry see the possibilities of what's so powerfully right about a sustainable not just industry, but world for all of us... more evidence has show, especially as these last few decades have taught us with both discoveries and new tech, both paper recycling and advancements in paper making for green purpose hold true potential.
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2017 lead article featured by the Asia Paper Markets was either deliberately reprinted (along with several others in a correctly labeled area... sometimes this inadvertent mistake does happen) because the history of the "doom of paper" dates back to the early 1980s due to the threat of computers and paper to each other except during the paradoxical period of the very late 1990s and up to the mid-2000s when the home PC also meant having a home printer for inkjet use more so than today.
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Merichem Company
Market Roundup
While traditional markets like commercial print companies and newspapers have declined some in recent years because of laser printing and online media, individuals are using more paper products. New computer applications allowing them to print their on invitations, scrapbooks, recipes and small business brochures means they will buy paper directly either from an office supply store or online.
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Warehouse Specialist
Pulp & Paper
1.Ability to attract and retain talented people 2.Quality of management 3.Social responsibility to the community and the environment 4.Innovativeness 5.Quality of products or services 6.Wise use of corporate assets 7.Financial soundness 8.Long-term investment value 9.Effectiveness in doing business globally identified as keys to success.
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Sun Chemical Releases Winter 2019 Regulatory Newsletter
January 23, 2019Midland PaperclipsPrinter News
Sun Chemical customers looking for the latest global regulations and updates regarding food contact materials will be able to download the new Winter 2019 Regulatory Newsletter at www.sunchemical.com/regulatory.

The latest newsletter focuses strictly on regulatory updates of food contact materials in a variety of countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia and the South Pacific. Some of the regulations cited include:
•European Commission’s No 2018/2013 on the use of bisphenol A,
•China’s GB 4806.1-2016 and GB 9685-2016,
•India’s IS 15495,
•Section B.23.001 of the Canadian Food and Drugs Act and Regulations,
•The Food Standards Australia New Zealand,
•The Protect Our Food from Phthalate Contamination Act in the United States,
•Brazil’s Technical Requirements for Food Contact Cellulosic Materials, and
•Issue 8 of the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety.

"As a leader in regulatory and compliance issues, Sun Chemical works closely with customers to help them comply with the strict standards required by brand owners and these food contact regulations," said Gary Andrzejewski, Corporate Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Sun Chemical. "Our regulatory newsletters are an important tool designed to help customers learn about rules that are coming and how they can prepare to remain in compliance when laws are modified. Our R&D team invests significant time and effort to develop solutions that both meet customer needs and comply with the latest regulations and requirements across the globe."
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Global Hygiène has chosen to rely on A.Celli Paper technology for the order of a complete turnkey plant to be installed Charavines, in southeastern France. The French company has secured the A.Celli technological excellence, from the stock preparation to the roll handling system.
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Honeywell
Containerboard/Packaging
Tweedy said she received notice from the VP for human resources for LSC Communications, formerly known as RR Donnelley, that it will permanently close the LSC facility in Lynchburg, located at 4201 Murray Place. The move will affect 369 workers.
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Integration planning led by a dedicated team of full time executives from both companies is well underway and preparation of documentation is nearing completion. The process toward securing required antitrust clearances and other regulatory consents in all jurisdictions which are conditional to closing have either been completed or are progressing in line with the range of original expectations.
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New Products
Archroma, a global leader in color and specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, recently announced the introduction of a new optical brightening agent (OBA) specially designed for food packaging and paper, Leucophor® AFCN liq. The newly launched OBA has been approved for food contact by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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"Exactly 220 years ago a paper machine was patented and brought to the market, changing the reality of every human being. We believe that our rich history that has started over 165 years ago, has a direct impact on who we are today... We are a big, worldwide family, who is eager to claim higher and higher... We are a dedicated, international team, powered by 7 divisions all around the globe. Our history, passion and values defines us... We are stronger together!"
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OSI Software Inc./OSIsoft Canada
Published Pricing
The platform, named EXTR:ACT – Driving Value for mulitmaterial recycling, has been set up by ACE members BillerudKorsnäs, Elopak, SIG Combibloc, Stora Enso and Tetra Pak Tetra Pak to foster recycling of beverage cartons, including the non-paper components, such as polymers and aluminium.
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This price adjustment is driven by upward increases in key raw material costs, combined with global inflationary factors in labor and freight, Voith explained.
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announced that within slightly over a month from now it will increase prices for its glassine paper grades and lightweight simili paper by a minimum of 10%. The price adjustment is effective on all orders beginning March 1, 2019.
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Sustainability
"The Raki2 programme has built a strong framework for industrial collaboration, and has sped up the practical research to establish sustainable end-uses for sludge", Esa Laurinsilta, Director of Strategic Partnerships at UPM said.
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"Today's legislation will call for the closure of the Boat Harbour effluent treatment facility by January 2020," Labi Kousoulis, Minister of Internal Services, said this past Friday. Most mill experts and those who understand economic realities of treatment production and its necessity know that the forced move will likely only effect the economy more so than doing actual good work for the environment.
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Positive recyclability assessment results from PTS, an independent testing laboratory, confirm corrugated converters can use HP PageWide corrugated presses to supply packaging products suitable for production of new recycled fiber-based paper for packaging, with no need for extra steps or costly processes, according to the PTS testing report.
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People
Marty Barfield has been named manager of the company’s mill in Kingsport, Tennessee. Since September 2015, Marty has been the Plymouth Mill’s pulp production manager, leading manufacturing for two softwood fiber lines and two fluff pulp machines with a keen focus on employee safety.
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Metsä Board operates Packaging Service teams on three continents — Europe, the Americas and APAC — to jointly, with customers, create lighter, more environmentally friendly and efficient packaging. Metsä Board is delighted to announce that the teams will be further strengthened with new design expertise following the appointments of Marko Leiviskä and Iiro Numminen.
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Presented by TAPPI and Check Five Productions, the Direct Print on Corrugated Substrates series consists of two courses, Introduction to Flexography and Monitoring and Controlling Color in the Pressroom, that explain how flexography is used to enhance corrugated containers to sell more product.

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Staying competitive in the growing specialty papers market means staying on top of new technologies, trends and advancements. Join other industry leaders and attend Specialty Papers Europe 2019 for the latest industry updates.

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