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Government subsidies (as well as tax rates, regulations and so forth) are uncertain because they are not set by markets, but are set by shifting political winds.  Competitive markets as a price setting function are as reliable as gravity.  Government mandates, ones that extract money, ones that provide money are not...

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Readers respond to last week's column, "A competitive advantage for suppliers."

I have been dealing with suppliers for decades, and suppliers keep behaving in the same manner. That manner is this: they simply have a “tin ear” when it comes to being cognizant of paper machine downtime. I saw it happen again last week, but I can tell you stories that are decades old. In fact, I think I will...

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There was more than a touch of nostalgia, but also a sense of inevitability, when Georgia Tech announced, without fanfare, that the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST) would become The Renewable Byproducts Institute (RBI).

Armstrong Packaging is a UK producer of specialty rigid boxes

MGM Graphics has been a recognized leader in prepress to the corrugated/packaging industries in the Western U.S. and Canada for 25 years

June fire was caused by a mechanical failure

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Scientific results and engineering results must be studied carefully and analyzed many ways in order to ascertain their veracity.  I fear in the world of today, we capriciously slap the words “science” or “computer analysis” on endeavors which need much further study.  Sometimes this is done through ignorance, sometimes maliciously. 

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By closing the facility, Cascades said it is withdrawing from the Kraft paper sector definitively

The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of next year

“As a result of this transaction, we have received approximately $700 million in cash proceeds and retired over $1.9 billion worth of the company’s shares,” said Doyle Simons, president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser, in a statement.

We all do it, and I think more people are harmed by lying to themselves than are harmed by lies told by others...

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A good response on the column, "That can't be."

Multiprint specializes in Pressure Sensitive Beverage labels for Ireland and the UK.  Multi-Color Corporation said that Multiprint Labels has common markets, technologies and supply chain with MCC's Glasgow UK operation.