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In this season of the year, we are often reminded of children, sitting on Santa Claus' (or Father Christmas') lap asking for things. We are amused by this, for it shows a child's greed and a lack of finesse on their part. We enjoy seeing these attributes laid naked for what they are. There are a couple of other places where one can see these same attributes, however, that are quite surprising and show us such tactics are not limited to the infant mind...

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Fifth Assessment Report in November. Despite being an engineer who has worked with numbers and computer simulations even more than the average engineer has, I find the IPCC reports very heavy reading, with masses of data, often qualified as being imprecise. I cannot imagine any of the politicians that I have met personally having either the time, inclination or capacity to read and understand these reports.

Solenis LLC announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Clearwater Specialties LLC, a privately-held specialty chemical company dedicated to the tissue and towel market

Catalyst said the decision is fully market-related as the company is facing a lack of orders and a declining market for the paper manufactured on paper machine No. 9, which was temporarily curtailed on 27 October 2014

BASF and Omya announced this week that are working jointly on coater-ready barrier solutions for paper and cardboard packaging

Stora Enso announced this week that it has signed an agreement to divest its Uetersen specialty and coated fine paper mill in Germany to a company mainly owned by the private equity fund Perusa Partners Fund 2

Searchers have found the body of a man who disappeared Tuesday after arriving at Crofton's Catalyst pulp-and-paper mill to deliver wood chips

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It is my opinion that mills should embrace the advantages of technology training, but should not completely abandon all the traditional techniques.

Cascades Inc. has announced that it has reached an agreement for the sale of its North American boxboard manufacturing and converting assets to Graphic Packaging Holding Company for $44.9 million

Worker died after becoming trapped in a piece of machinery at a Weyerhaeuser facility in Oregon on Tuesday afternoon

Metsä Board Corporation, part of Metsä Group, announced that it is introducing the final steps of transformation to a paperboard company and will invest approximately EUR 170 million in a new folding boxboard machine at its Husum mill in Sweden

McHugh succeeds H. Edwin Kiker, who is transitioning to the newly created position of Chief Accounting Officer, responsible for financial reporting, accounting operations, and implementing and ensuring proper financial controls and systems

$160 million capital project to convert a paper machine to a fluff pulp line and allows for the production of up to 516,000 metric tons of fluff pulp per year; Conversion will reduce UFS capacity by approximately 364,000 short tons

Verso Paper has reached an agreement to sell its Bucksport mill and related power generation assets to a subsidiary of the Montreal-based American Iron and Metal in January for about $60 million.

Potlatch Corporation announced that it has closed the previously announced purchase of approximately 201,000 acres of timberlands in Alabama and Mississippi from affiliates of Resource Management Service, LLC for $384 million

Norbord Inc. and Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd. announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which they will merge to create a leading global wood products company focused on oriented strand board across North America, Europe and Asia

The center, which will open during the second quarter of 2015, will host research, application, business development, and strategic marketing

Tembec and Unifor Local 233 confirmed that they have signed a Memorandum of Agreement and a Return to Work Protocol towards the settlement of the Collective Agreement at its Temiscaming Site in Quebec