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Name change coincides with acquisition of company by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice-managed fund; transaction valued at approximately $1.8 billion

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The Process Automation Systems business primarily serves the pulp, paper, and power industries

You may be very involved in your mill’s business. You may think you understand all the business aspects from raw materials to markets.  Yet, unbeknownst to you, there are always outside forces trying to find a way to influence your business, sometimes for the better, sometimes not...

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Let's examine a few wet press related considerations with the goal of identifying water removal opportunities...

Some personal observations on used cars, reports and discrepancies...

According to reports, 35-year employee killed after being hit by a clamp truck

Garrison was also a county commissioner, reportedly sustained fatal injuries in forklift accident

Following the stock split, RockTenn's outstanding common shares will increase to approximately 143 million shares

Seventy-three years ago, North Platte was the home of the North Platte Canteen, located at the Union Pacific Railroad station. The history of the canteen can be traced to Dec. 17, 1941 – just 10 days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Power Smart program provided an injection of $100 million over three years and is aimed at reducing energy intensity and improving energy efficiency used in the thermal-mechanical pulping process at seven pulp facilities throughout British Columbia

Weyerhaeuser said the agreement will advance seed technologies to help meet growing global demands for food, feed and fiber

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).