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Goldenrod Corp.
Issue Spotlight
A New Valmet NTT tissue machine is being installed at a facility von Drehle acquired from the former Mississippi River Pulp facility in 2013.
 
Individual sheets that connect to make each roll were once 4.5 in. wide by 4.5 in. long, consistently, but the standard has shifted, or at the very least, loosened its grip on the industry.
 
TAPPI Board of Directors elections began on January 2, and will conclude on February 15.
 
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Attendees will learn the most important industry-accepted best practices that improve overall tissue machine efficiency.
 
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Naylor Association Solutions
Market Roundup
Contraction in overall manufacturing is the lowest China PMI since 2012.
 
Bleached softwood share (%) of bleached kraft pulp consumption plunged to an all-time low.
 
Tissue/Toweling Industry News
Burrows announced that it and the other owners of Lyonsdale Associates LLC have sold their ownership interests in Lyonsdale Associates to Cube Hydro New York LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cube Hydro Partners LLC.
 
Company has achieved record speed with its Andritz (Graz, Austria) PrimeLineST tissue machine that was initially started up at the beginning of 2014.
 
Some 15% of GapCon's sales are in India, a growing market where the company wants to double sales over the next five years.
 
Operations has received approval to invest approximately $70 million to modernize equipment in the mill’s power generation area.
 
Helsky will start in his new position and as a member of Metsä Group’s Executive Management Team July 1 at the latest.
 
Kevin Frank replaces Dan Cappell as CEO of AstenJohnson Holdings, effective immediately.
 
Company signs contract with PMP Group, Poland, for a second Intelli-Tissue® EcoEc machine. The decision was made only six months after TM 1, which also was supplied by PMP Group, was successfully started up at Hebei Xuesong Paper.
 
Delivery includes a new reel TT Reel-P that will replace completely the existing old one, as well as a new tail threading system, sheet stabilizers, and shaft puller with expandable shafts.
 
Acquired operations supply process automation and information management systems and related applications and services to the pulp, paper, energy, and other process industries. The EUR 340 million purchased operations employ about 1,600 people.
 
Two plant expansion projects will enhance company's roll products and mechanical services capabilities for the North American market.
 
New Technologies
Product functions by interfering with the chemical reaction that releases smell by blocking and then deactivating the catalysts of the reaction.
 
Yankee Dryer Safety and Reliability Committee
YDSRC will hold its Spring Meeting April 22-23 at the Omni CNN Center in Atlanta, Ga., USA.
 
 
Festo Corp
Xerium Technologies, Inc.

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