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The company announced an extended period of market-related outage on its remaining paper machine in January. The kraft pulp mill and another paper machine have been idled since November of 2012.

Workers were employees of a maintenance contractor; incident is under investigation

The reality is none of us think alike. In fact, if you are a senior manager, you’ll want people of all kinds of flavors. Just don’t make the mistake of putting them in the wrong position in your organization...

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This announcement comes just over a year after APP launched its Forest Conservation Policy

Recruitment of new directors for both companies and new Rayonier CEO nearing completion; CFO transition announced

The recent news from France is that work emails are banned after 6 p.m.  Left unspecified, apparently this does not apply to some jobs.  Let’s hope the exemptions include the pulp and paper industry, unless you are so competitive you wish to knock off your French competitors by any means possible. This situation is indicative of a problem confronting employers since the beginning of the industrial revolution.  That problem is this—how do we get workers to exhibit and perform as entrepreneurially as they did when they were peasants down on the farm?

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It's unanimous, readers agree that the ability to get things done is the most valuable attribute in business, and few listed other valuable attributes.

The extension comes as a result of continued discussions with each of the Canadian Competition Bureau and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice

Given that you lead a legal, moral, ethical life (I’ll fire you on the spot if you do not), the most valuable attribute I see in employees in any setting is the ability to get things done.  And, yes, we can add all sorts of qualifiers to this—on time, on budget and so forth.  However, stripped to its bare essentials, the most coveted quality in the workplace is the ability to get things done...

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Readers give us their thoughts on vertical paper machines...

As we all know, offices, and homes, are still far from paperless, but a “less-paper” revolution commenced about the turn of the century, at least for all kinds of printing paper, including newsprint. This seems likely to continue for the foreseeable future...

That's what I asked my old pal Ratchethead Ledbottom the other day. In between sips of his lukewarm PBR, Ratchethead thought about the question for a moment, and then responded...

With this transaction, International Paper will now be in complete charge of partner Jari Cellulose’s former corrugated packaging assets, comprising of three containerboard mills and four box plants

Expansion plans are expected to be completed this month

Production at mill will end on June 30, 2014

A couple of weeks ago, a comment I made on the Light Green Machine Institute Weekly newsletter excited paper makers around the world. I proposed that we flip the paper machine on end, head box at the top, winder on the ground floor. Let's explore this topic in greater detail...

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