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New Solvent in Paper Industry to Reduce Energy Consumption

June 2, 2016 by Pulp and Paper Technology

The development of a revolutionary solvent is soon to enable energy savings in the paper industry. Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) signed an agreement recently with as many as 14 European paper producers to boost this research. Raw materials will be used…

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EU takes Paper Towards a Circular Economy

May 31, 2016 by Pulp and Paper Technology

The European Commission very recently has embraced the communication “Towards a circular economy: a zero waste programme for Europe” which has the motto of building up a more commonly acceptable and coherent European Union framework in order to promote the circular economy….

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Mutag Bio-chips for Wastewater Treatment in Paper Industry

May 27, 2016 by Pulp and Paper Technology

The Right Choice of Biofilm Carrier Media used in MBBR-Technology You will proverbially face the agony of choice upon looking for the best suitable biofilm carrier media for the MBBR-Technology in your biological wastewater treatment plant. However, when making up your purchase…

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Import of Paper: How Will Domestic Markets be Affected?

May 22, 2016 by Pulp and Paper Technology

The local paper industry, which is battling to adapt to high input costs and perpetual lack of pulp wood, will confront another test in 2014 — duty free import of paper from South-East Asian countries. On Jan 1st, India’s 2.5 per cent…

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Paper Mills Build Their Own Survival Strategies for the Digital Age

May 16, 2016 by Pulp and Paper Technology

Quite recently, an unfortunate fire engulfed the buildings of Merrimac Paper Co. in Lawrence, that had been for long supplied paper for National Geographic. New England’s traditional industries seem to give in to forces of technology and rapid globalization. This fire massacre…

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Kaolin-Based Reagent Improves Waste Paper Deinking

May 11, 2016 by Pulp and Paper Technology

Tests show an increase in brightness, reduced dirt count values and lower stickies content resulting in better machine runnability, often with a lower grade furnish. Deinked pulp from waste paper such as old newspapers (ONP), old magazines (OMG), and mixed office waste…

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The Indian Paper Industry

May 5, 2016 by Pulp and Paper Technology

Several attributes of paper, including its pedagogic and packaging value makes Pulp and Paper industry (P&P) uniquely positioned among the manufacturing industries. Paper, is thus, recognized almost as a touchstone of socio-economic development. This traditional Indian P&P sector had leveraged and played…

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Carbon-Reduction Processes That Add Value to Paper Production

April 29, 2016 by Pulp and Paper Technology

Pulp and paper are huge consumers of energy. In fact, the world’s fifth- largest consumer of energy is the pulp and paper industry. The World Resources Institute, a think-tank, put the industry’s CO2 emissions at about 500m tons worldwide in 2005. Comparatively,…

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Innovation and Energy Savings in the Pulp & Paper Industry

April 25, 2016 by Pulp and Paper Technology

In the age and environment of rapid advances in technology, it is often forecasted, quite comfortably, that the pulp and paper industry will see a lot of steady relationship between IT and process control technology. Though process control departments in many paper…

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How Uncertainty in Postal Services is Affecting the Paper Industry

April 17, 2016 by Pulp and Paper Technology

The U.S. postal service may well be a thing of the past in a few days, going by the spate of losses it has seen in the past years – the first quarter of 2012, the service had a $3.2 billion loss….

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