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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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….
For all commodities and resources alike, improper usage leads to disastrous results. With paper, the scenario is no different. Paper, being a major component of industries, offices and schools the world over, finds many takers in all its forms – pulping, bleaching…
The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood as raw material and produce pulp, paper, board and other cellulose-based products. The leading countries in pulp and pulp industry are North American (United States and Canada), northern European (Finland, Sweden, and…
Over the last decade, paper industry in western countries is experiencing unimpressive growth and it is expected to continue in future despite its economy improvement. Leading manufacturers in industry are gearing their thoughts to overcome these challenges to get strategic shift by…
ICT known as Information and Communication Technology is the multitude devices sector based on the technology. ICT has significant impact on pulp and paper industry. The paper dematerialization on the ICT basis has been forecasted to reduce consumption of global paper which…
