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I've drunk coffee for so long that if I quit, my body would go into a coma, I'm sure. There! I've confessed it and feel relieved. Having done so, I now feel compelled to write about something that bugs me: the economics of coffee consumption.

As the last shift of workers walked out of the Resolute paper mill shortly before sunrise on Monday, 22 December 2014, there were residents and family members there to greet them.

Pratt Industries says it will begin construction on a new $52 million corrugated box factory in Wisconsin next spring. The proposed 350,000 square foot manufacturing facility, which will be built on a 56-acre site in Beloit, will produce approximately 600 tons of recycled boxes a day at capacity.

Executive offices will relocate to its Chestnut Run Plaza campus from downtown Wilmington, Delaware, effective 1 July the company said today in a statement

AstenJohnson, a supplier of paper machine clothing, filaments, specialty and filtration fabrics, and equipment for the paper industry, says it has completed the acquisition of Eagle Nonwovens, Inc.

Rick Holley, CEO of Plum Creek Timber, returned the bonus earlier this month

The Kauttua plant manufactures base paper for masking tape

Appleton Coated announced that it has been purchased by Virtus Holdings LLC, a new company formed by members of Appleton Coated's management team.

Company officials announced Wednesday that the Dickson Quad/Graphics plant will close permanently on March 12, impacting about 115 employees. The plant shuttering was caused by Gannett's decision to cease publishing USA Weekend and the reduced circulation of Parade magazine, according to company spokesperson Claire Ho.

In this season of the year, we are often reminded of children, sitting on Santa Claus' (or Father Christmas') lap asking for things. We are amused by this, for it shows a child's greed and a lack of finesse on their part. We enjoy seeing these attributes laid naked for what they are. There are a couple of other places where one can see these same attributes, however, that are quite surprising and show us such tactics are not limited to the infant mind...

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Fifth Assessment Report in November. Despite being an engineer who has worked with numbers and computer simulations even more than the average engineer has, I find the IPCC reports very heavy reading, with masses of data, often qualified as being imprecise. I cannot imagine any of the politicians that I have met personally having either the time, inclination or capacity to read and understand these reports.

Solenis LLC announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Clearwater Specialties LLC, a privately-held specialty chemical company dedicated to the tissue and towel market

Catalyst said the decision is fully market-related as the company is facing a lack of orders and a declining market for the paper manufactured on paper machine No. 9, which was temporarily curtailed on 27 October 2014

BASF and Omya announced this week that are working jointly on coater-ready barrier solutions for paper and cardboard packaging

Stora Enso announced this week that it has signed an agreement to divest its Uetersen specialty and coated fine paper mill in Germany to a company mainly owned by the private equity fund Perusa Partners Fund 2

Searchers have found the body of a man who disappeared Tuesday after arriving at Crofton's Catalyst pulp-and-paper mill to deliver wood chips

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It is my opinion that mills should embrace the advantages of technology training, but should not completely abandon all the traditional techniques.

Cascades Inc. has announced that it has reached an agreement for the sale of its North American boxboard manufacturing and converting assets to Graphic Packaging Holding Company for $44.9 million